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Embedded OEM Development Platform

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Core API, CompactFlash, and wireless USB expand functionality
The Khronos Group is focused on creating open standards, such as OpenGL, glFX, OpenKODE, OpenGL ES, OpenMAX, OpenVG, OpenSL ES, OpenWF, OpenML, and COLLADA to enable dynamic media authoring and acceleration on a wide variety of platforms and devices.
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 4/11/2008

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Creating order out of digital media chaos
Approaching software for complex embedded systems with multimedia content ideally requires rethinking how software is implemented. This change is needed not only to deliver required performance but also to address the system’s life cycle and achieve the expected reliability. Randy delivers some compelling ideas on ways to design these systems.
preview: http://www.pc104online.com   date: 9/1/2007

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Multimedia, not just graphics, display capability
Robust multimedia content not only requires fast, high-resolution displays, but also calls for relatively new capabilities such as secure transmission of rights-managed audio and video streams. DisplayPort, with a new specification version recently approved by VESA, seeks to redefine the display interface for more robust functionality.
preview: http://www.pc104online.com   date: 7/1/2007

Microsoft Windows Embedded - Try it free!

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Open standards accelerating next-generation multimedia device delivery
Consumers are expecting more and more from their multimedia devices, pressuring application developers to keep up. Fortunately, middleware frameworks with standard components are emerging to help designers. Fakhir introduces the OpenMAX multimedia framework and illustrates how it is changing multimedia device development.
preview: http://www.embedded-computing.com   date: 4/15/2008

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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.
preview: http://www.edb.utexas.edu  

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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