NVIDIA showcases standardised media component interface for portable devices

[Steve]

Today and tomorrow, NVIDIA will be showcasing the OpenMAX IL (Integration Layer) standard together with the Khronos group. The Integration Layer defines a standardised streaming media framework. In demonstrations, NVIDIA will use their GoForce GPU to create a pipeline that will be used to decode MPEG-4. However, the standard allows other codecs to be used in the pipeline, and will allow the pipeline to be reconfigured.

The OpenMAX™ IL 1.0 (Integration Layer) specification defines media component interfaces to enable the rapid integration of accelerated codecs into streaming media frameworks on embedded devices. OpenMAX IL is the first of three layers of the overall OpenMAX standard. The standard will provide comprehensive streaming media codec and application portability by enabling accelerated multimedia components to be developed, integrated, and programmed across multiple operating systems and silicon platforms.

[Press release]