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Multimedia Technologies Assignment A Question 1

Multimedia frameworks provide a common set of APIs that allow encoding, transcoding, decoding and playback of multimedia files. They define native codec support and include a plugin system for additional codecs. This enhances multimedia output by supporting codecs, providing a plugin architecture for codecs not initially available, and potentially including a multimedia player.

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Multimedia Technologies Assignment A Question 1

Multimedia frameworks provide a common set of APIs that allow encoding, transcoding, decoding and playback of multimedia files. They define native codec support and include a plugin system for additional codecs. This enhances multimedia output by supporting codecs, providing a plugin architecture for codecs not initially available, and potentially including a multimedia player.

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Multimedia Technologies

Assignment A

Question 1

1. Describe the framework of Multimedia Systems. How this framework helps to enhance
multimedia output?
a. Framework of multimedia systems are a common set of Application
Programming Interface(s) (APIs) designed to provide encoding and transcoding
multimedia files from one format to another. These frameworks can also decode
multimedia and then send the decoded stream to the graphics or audio
subsystem for playback. In some other cases a multimedia framework can have
a plug-in architecture for supporting additional codecs.
b. Multimedia framework systems helps to enhance multimedia output by:
i. Natively defining codecs which can be support
ii. Providing plug-in architecture for supporting codecs which might not be
available at the time of framework release
iii. Might also include multimedia player

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