About This Guide

The Multimedia Architecture Guide describes the components in the QNX Multimedia Suite and how they work with each other and other platform services to perform media tasks.

Before designing and writing media applications, developers should read this guide to understand how their applications can use the multimedia services and test utilities.

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The multimedia architecture and the communication between components Multimedia Architecture
The components used to detect media devices Device detection and information retrieval
The components used to upload media metadata to persistent storage Metadata synchronization and retrieval
The components used to play media Media playback