Khronos Group Releases OpenMAX AL 1.0 Specification for Application-level Video, Audio and Image Processing.Extensive Media Playback, Recording and Processing Functionality Portable to any Platform and Operating System operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. ; Completes OpenMAX Family of Multimedia APIs SEOUL, South Korea -- The Khronos[TM] Group today announced it has publicly released the OpenMAX[TM] AL 1.0 specification, a royalty-free, cross-platform C-language API for high-performance multimedia applications on mobile and embedded devices. The OpenMAX AL standard simplifies deployment of hardware and software audio, video and imaging capabilities across any platform or operating system. OpenMAX AL enables developers to create rich media applications across a wide range of hardware devices. OpenMAX AL (Application Layer) enables native applications to be portable across multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. by providing an extensive application-level API that enables high-level abstraction for comprehensive audio-visual media functionality. OpenMAX AL provides the ability to create and control player and recorder objects, connecting them to configurable input and output objects. Inputs and outputs include content readers and writers, headphones Head-mounted speakers. Headphones have a strap that rests on top of the head, positioning a pair of speakers over both ears. For listening to music or monitoring live performances and audio tracks, both left and right channels are required. , loudspeakers, microphones, display windows, cameras, broadcast radios, LEDs and other types of A/V (1) (Audio/Video) Refers to equipment and applications that deal with sound and sight. The A/V world includes microphones, tape recorders, audio mixers, still and video cameras, film projectors, slide projectors, VCRs, CD and DVD players/recorders, amplifiers and devices. OpenMAX AL enables applications to run on a multitude of hardware-accelerated systems as well as software-based media solutions. OpenMAX AL has been designed by many of the leading industry audio, video and photography experts across a range of industries to provide access to a broad range of media functionality, which includes: * Playback of audio, video, still images and MIDI * Recording of audio and video from device's microphone and camera * Still image shooting including extensive controls for the camera such as exposure settings, zooming and focusing * Extraction and insertion of content metadata * General audio controls such as volume, rate and equalizer * Visual controls such as brightness, contrast, gamma, resizing, mirroring and visual effects such as monochrome, emboss and negative * Analog radio controls including RDS (1) (Remote Data Services) A set of programming interfaces from Microsoft that enables users to update data on the Internet or intranets from their ActiveX-enabled browser. * Support for LED and vibrator vibrator /vi·bra·tor/ (vi´bra-tor) an instrument for producing vibrations. vibrator an apparatus used in vibratory treatment. control OpenMAX AL is the highest layer of the OpenMAX family of APIs for multimedia acceleration and application development. In addition, Khronos also provides the OpenMAX IL (Integration Layer) API which defines a low-level abstraction to codecs The following is a list of codecs. Audio codecs Non-compression formats
The OpenMAX AL specification is immediately available for download at http://www.khronos.org/openmax/ and may be used royalty-free by implementers and developers. A paid Adopters Program for OpenMAX AL is also available immediately at http://www.khronos.org/adopters/ which provides extensive conformance tests to ensure cross-implementation consistency and a trademark license for conformant implementations. "The Khronos Working group for OpenMAX AL is very proud to have achieved our goal of releasing the 1.0 version of this important new specification here at Korea Games Conference, an important venue for graphics and visual technologies," said Yeshwant Muthusamy, a technology manager at Nokia and Chair of the OpenMAX AL Working Group at Khronos. "Many of the key mobile media industry companies have actively participated in making this standard as robust and inclusive as it has become, and we are very confident that the multimedia community will embrace OpenMAX AL to enable the widest range of platform-independent rich media applications." About The Khronos Group This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. The Khronos Group is an industry consortium creating open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced to enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos standards include OpenGL[R], OpenGL[R] ES, OpenCL[TM], OpenMAX[TM], OpenVG[TM], OpenSL ES[TM], OpenKODE[TM], and COLLADA COLLADA Collaborative Design Activity [TM]. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. More information is available at www.khronos.org. Khronos, OpenKODE, OpenVG, OpenSL ES and OpenMAX are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc. OpenCL is a trademark of Apple Inc., COLLADA is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and OpenGL is a registered trademark and the OpenGL ES and OpenGL SC logos are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. used under license by Khronos. All other product names, trademarks, and/or company names are used solely for identification and belong to their respective owners. Editors Note: Logos, Images and Other Relevant Data for Media Use May be Obtained From the Khronos PR Counsel jh@horizonpr.com Jonathan Hirshon - Principal, Horizon Communications Vox - (+1) 408 969 4888 | Mobile - (+1) 408 393 4900 AIM / GTalk / Skype / Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. - horizonpr1 My Schedule - http://www.tungle.me/jh GPG GPG GNU Privacy Guard GPG Global Public Goods GPG Gas Powered Games (Redmond, WA) GPG Good Practice Guide (UK Carbon trust publications) GPG Guinness Peat Group Plc GPG Grams Per Gallon - http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x080DEB72 |
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