Aricent has introduced Media EXP, which it describes as a complete software framework for today's multimedia-oriented consumer devices. Media EXP provides a performance- and power-optimised combination of essential middleware components necessary to deliver the most advanced multimedia experience for today's consumer electronics devices, including Smartphones, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), entertainment devices, portable media players, netbooks and more.
To compete effectively in what the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) forecasts to be $165 billion (100 billion) market in 2009, says Aricent, device manufacturers must effectively manage an increasing number of components and technologies, including network processors, power systems, radios, operating systems and codecs, along with more sophisticated multimedia applications such as high definition video. The company notes that this multi-source component reality, coupled with the need to improve energy efficiency and achieve additional certifications and compliance requirements, such as Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) interoperability, has created significant development, integration and optimisation challenges for developers of multimedia entertainment and communications devices.
Aricent is a strategic supplier to many leading consumer electronics and mobile device manufacturers, with its software shipped in more than 400 million devices. Its Media EXP offering has been designed to help device manufacturers meet growing consumer expectations for an innovative, high performance small screen multimedia experience as screen sizes, power budgets and product introduction cycles continue to shrink.
Media EXP reduces the cost and time-to-market challenges associated with multi-vendor management and complex component integration, and is compliant with the DLNA interoperability guidelines and connectivity protocols such as MTP and PictBridge. In addition, says Aricent, Media EXP delivers up to 44% improvement in battery life, along with more than 50% encoding and decoding performance improvement, as compared with open source solutions.
The Media EXP suite offers a portfolio of pre-packaged, pre-optimised software and frameworks, along with a wide range of ready-to-market applications necessary to deliver the an advanced multimedia experience. The suite provides all essential multimedia components, including: high-definition multimedia codecs which high-performance audio/video recording and playback; advanced multimedia end-user applications; communication applications for voice, video and Rich Communications Services (RCS); and device middleware interfaces, such as Real-Time Transport Protocol and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTP/RTSP); Video Telephony – 324M; and Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H).
Aricent's software suite is available for most hardware platforms and supports leading operating systems such as Symbian, Google Android, Microsoft, Windows Mobile, Linux and Mentor Graphic's Nucleus.
Theres more information, including a free Whitepaper, The 4 New Rules of Building Consumer Electronics for the Experience Era, here