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RTOS platform accelerates multimedia device development
Designing today’s multimedia products involves a great deal of complexity in terms of managing functionality without compromising performance. Using a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) platform with a media player reference framework, developers can create compelling multimedia device designs while reducing development time, effort, and risk.
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 6/16/2009

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Wall-pluggable PC powers multimedia video applications
Many people see the world from the perspective of a desktop computer in an office or home. However, the world outside is much bigger and more varied. There are much larger computers, like supercomputers and other high-performance computing platforms, and much smaller computers, like nettops or netbooks using an Intel Atom processor or other low-power chipset. Chip PC of Israel manufactures some of the world’s smallest embedded computers,...
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 11/13/2009

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White Paper: Delivering Rich and Customizable User Interfaces for Multimedia-enabled products
In today’s increasingly competitive consumer device markets, multimedia-enabled products must offer a user interface (UI) that is both visually compelling and easy to use. But changing an embedded UI can often require a lot of time and work. By taking a new approach to the UI problem as a whole, software developers can seriously reduce the amount of effort involved in making changes to device’s interface throughout the product deve...
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 7/16/2009

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Design Issues When Using Flash
Flash is a multimedia tool that reflects the broadening of our use of the Internet from an academically-influenced display of information to an entertainment-based media host. In turn, our notions of ''good'' web design may be put to the challenge since, as Nielsen stated, the multitude of options provided by Flash can, at times, appear to invite a degradation in usability.
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Issues in Design and Implementation of Multimedia Software Systems
This paper describes a user-centered approach to Multimedia Software System aimed at satisfying requirements of end-user computing. MSS design and development explicitly accounts for their capabilities of capturing and producing textual, pictorial, sound and haptic events and for the requirements of empowering users in the execution of their tasks.
preview: http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at  

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Portable Multimedia - Powerful, Flexible Solutions Powered By CEVA’s Mobile-Media
The ever increasing demands of multimedia processing capabilities from handset, PDA and other multimedia device manufacturers, and the escalating chip costs, are pushing the boundaries of silicon design. While hard-coded solutions were effective for one or two multimedia formats, the market is demanding that multiple formats and codecs be supported by the same design, to give a comprehensive and user-friendly experience to device owners.
preview: http://ceva-dsp.mediaroom.com