[Inkscape-user] OT? SMIL seems dead, alternatives?

I registered with smil@...2562... I was notified of my acceptance but my questions but they were never posted. There is no SMIL player in the Ubuntu repositories. I don't really want to manually compile one, or use a windows based one, or pay for one.

SMIL just seems unsupported.

From what I have read, streaming video has made SMIL less desirable.

I don't have any real experience with it but it looks like a great idea. I would love to be able to use this to animate my SVGs and to control the audio. I could convert the video after to another format for mass viewing.

Is there another alternative to SMIL?, something that can be used to dictate the timing of individual images and audio files?

Sorry if this is off topic-Patrick