Multimedia

Multimedia features capture and play or display still images, video, and sounds.

The main multimedia features are:

• Audio I/O

  Enables you to record and play uncompressed PCM audio data.

• Camera

  Enables you to launch the camera and control or adjust camera sensors of the device to preview or capture still images.

• Image Util

  Enables you to view and process (decode, encode, convert, and compress) bitmap images in the JPEG format.

• Media Codec

  Enables you to use codecs to encode and decode video and audio data.

• Media Tool

  Enables you to use media tools to manage various media handles.

• Metadata Extractor

  Enables you to extract metadata from the media files.

• OpenAL

  Enables you to specify the objects and operations in producing high-quality audio output.

• Player

  Enables you to play audio and manage the state of the media player.

• Radio

  Enables you to control the radio hardware on your system.

• Recorder

  Enables you to record audio data to a file with compressed or uncompressed format and generate compressed video files with video data from camera and audio data from audio input device.

• Tone Player

  Enables you to play tones.

• WAV Player

  Enables you to play WAV files.

• Sound Manager

  Enables you to control the audio behavior of your application.

The following guides apply in mobile applications only:

• Media Controller

  Enables you to communicate between the media controller server and the media controller client.

• Media Vision

  Enables you to use create and read barcodes.

• Metadata Editor

  Enables you to edit the metadata of several popular audio formats.

• Screen Mirroring

  Enables you to mirror the device screen and sound to another device wirelessly.

• Thumbnail Util

  Enables you to create a thumbnail from an input media file.

• Video Util

  Enables you to use video transcoding features, such as multi-format codec and output format.