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Open Media Toolkit Goes Open Source

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmm-ultimedia dept.

Yves Schmid writes "Open Media Toolkit is now distributed under the LGPL. OMT is a powerful C++ framework for Mac OS X and Windows, for the development of real time 2D/3D multimedia applications. Several commercial applications have been developed using OMT, including games from Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Scitex, and HumanCode. OMT includes classes for 2D/3D rendering and animation (through DirectX, OpenGL or its own software renderer), sound, files, database, windowing, user-interface, media importer (3D and 2D), input control, etc."

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  1. Hrm... by blackcoot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like version of Qt but with a much heavier emphasis on the game side of development (Qt doesn't do DirectX last I checked --- "only" OpenGL which is only available as part of its Enterprise Edition, according to Assistant for Qt 3.0.5). Still, it doesn't run on Linux, which does me absolutely no good since all my work focusses around doing real time digital video processing under Linux. b~

    1. Re:Hrm... by cyb97 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It doesn't run on Linux, but as it runs on Mac OS X (or basterdizedBSD if you like) and it's (hopefully) pretty portable c++ (comeon if it runs on Windows *and* Mac...) it can't be too hard to get it to compile under Linux...

    2. Re:Hrm... by Consul · · Score: 2, Informative

      From their web site (emphasis is mine):

      Any contribution is welcomed. Here are the current priorities : documentation, a linux version, optimizations. Send an email to "yves@garagecube.com" if you want to contribute.

      It will probably happen fairly quickly now.

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      "You spilled my egg... I needed that egg."

  2. Re:Big applications? by Yves+Schmid · · Score: 5, Informative

    The biggest projects I know are:

    - Barbie Adventure the riding club (Mattel) #1 of sales in US during one month
    - Atlantis, the lost empire (Disney)
    - Tanaka (PMW)
    - The player of Clickworks was also based on OMT (Scitex)

    Several educational games and real-time art projects (like VJ performance) was also created using OMT. PTMKids and HumanCode developed a couple of commercial projects with OMT too...

    Yves.