Overview
The Multimedia defines APIs and interfaces that let an application integrate with audio, video, and image processing functions easily, including:
- Encoding and decoding images (Image Util and Video Util)
- Playing audios and videos from media files stored on a device or streaming over the network (Player)
- Getting meta-data from audio/video stream data (Audio I/O)
- Recording audios and videos (Recorder)
- Using the camera to display a live preview and capture a still image (Camera)
- Playing the tone(s) (Tone Player)
- Playing wave form audio file format (WAV Player)
- Managing audio output (Sound Manager)
- Accessing media codec (Media Codec)
- Managing media packet (Media Tool)
- Efficient 3D positional audio (OpenAL)
- Extracting the metadata from a media file (Metadata Extractor)
- Managing the radio (Radio)
- Accessing Exif info from a image file (libExif)
For more information on the Multimedia submodule features, see Multimedia Guide. For more information on the listed open source libraries, see the open source package page.