A proposal for a generic multimedia framework with a view to facilitate easy middleware development

This paper proposes a generic multimedia framework which is application independent that will facilitate developers to integrate codec libraries (both software and hardware) efficiently with the standard multimedia applications. This will reduce the development time. It will also relieve the application providers of shipping the codec libraries along with their players unless itpsilas a very proprietary codec. There will be only one copy of a particular codec in any electronic device with multimedia support. Thus a lot of space is saved especially in embedded applications where memory requirement is a constraint. The applications can also utilize the hardware acceleration features provided by the device thereby giving enhanced performance and reducing the CPU overhead.