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GPAC is a multimedia framework for research and academic purposes in different aspects of multimedia, with a focus on presentation technologies (graphics, animation and interactivity). The project started in 2003 with the initial goal to develop from scratch, in ANSI C, clean software compliant to the MPEG-4 Systems standard, a small and flexible alternative to the MPEG-4 reference software. Since then, the project has evolved into an advanced multimedia player, a multimedia packager and several servers. The project is intended to a wide audience ranging from end-users or content creators with development skills who want to experiment the new standards for interactive technologies or want to convert files for mobile devices, to developers who need players and/or server for multimedia streaming applications.

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The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language allows in its version 1.2 the description of multimedia scenes including audio, video, vector graphics, interactivity and animations. This standard has been selected by the mobile industry as the format for vector graphics and rich media content. For this purpose, additional tools were introduced in the language to solve the problem of the playback of long-running SVG sequences on memory-constrained devices like mobile phones. However, the proposed tools are not entirely sufficient and solutions outside the scope of SVG are needed. This paper proposes a method, complementary to the SVG tools, to control the memory consumption while playing back longrunning SVG sequences. This method relies on the use of an auxiliary XML document to describe the timed-fragmentation of the SVG document and the storage and streaming properties of each SVG fragment. Using this method, this paper shows that some SVG documents can be stored, delivered and played as streams, and that their playback as streams brings an important memory consumption reduction while using a standard SVG 1.2 Tiny player.