About This Guide

The Multimedia Synchronizer Developer's Guide is intended for developers who want to write multimedia applications that use the mm-sync service to synchronize embedded databases with metadata found on mediastores.

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The capabilities and high-level design of the multimedia synchronizer service Multimedia Synchronization Overview
The multistep process used for synchronizing mediastore databases The synchronization process
Running the mm-sync service Setting up the Multimedia Synchronizer Environment
The command-line utility for managing synchronizations mmsyncclient command utility
Controlling and troubleshooting synchronizations Working with Synchronizations
The application steps needed to synchronize a mediastore's metadata to a dynamically loaded database Synchronizing metadata from mediastores
Defining what content gets synchronized and how media information gets stored in databases Configuring Mediastore Synchronization
The API to use for managing synchronizations and interpreting mm-sync errors Multimedia Synchronizer API
Dictionary objects, which let you store extended options for mm-sync commands Dictionary Object API