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Open Multimedia Standards for Devices get a Boost

Posted by timothy on from the handy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Khronos Group, an industry consortium that develops open graphics standards announced at SIGGRAPH this week that it has released a specification for accelerated 2D vector graphics (OpenVG 1.0), updated its specification for embedded graphics hardware/software (OpenGL ES 2.0), initiated an embedded audio acceleration standard (OpenSL ES ), and annexed a project developing a lossless data interchange format for 3D authoring software (Collada). With literally billions of devices -- including mobile phones, portable media players, gaming devices, and set-top entertainment systems -- increasingly sporting rich multimedia capabilities, these standards come as great news!"

7 comments

  1. New Standards by triso · · Score: 1

    Oh Boy! Just what we need: more standards. Like my grandpa always said, the more the merrier.

  2. Drawing lines fast is GOOD by wowbagger · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the previous stories about the new X acceleration layer there was talk about removing the idea of accelerating drawing of lines with hardware from the acceleration framework.

    For me, that is very, very bad as what I do needs to draw about 30-50 thousand line segments a second, and not having line draw acceleration would suck.

    Now, along comes OpenVL - which sounds like it would be perfect for accelerating oscilloscope-type operations.

    I can only hope that real hardware to do this becomes commonplace.

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    1. Re:Drawing lines fast is GOOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The problem is that the vast majority of the freedesktop.org-"developers" are, and this is still friendly, utterly clueless morons.

      I was at several Linux-expos and the most annoying, loudest, arrogant and at the same time completely ignorant of anything vaguely technical were Bruce Perens and his bunch of asslickers.

      If they really get around to doing anything with their oh-so-improved X.org-server instead of throwing around random bizspeak and inventing new TLAs and FLAs, this will truely be the day that Linux has lost the desktop-war.

  3. even more standards? by FlashBuster3000 · · Score: 1

    Personally I like open standards, but one thing standards should solve is the interoperability between devices/OS's.
    But how does this go with even more standards for graphics and sound?
    For me it is like fighting proprietary standards with flooding the market with even more standards.
    How is the market supposed to react?
    Should every graphic device be able to handle all the "nice" open standards(same for sound)?
    We know this will not happen, and imho it just leads to less interoperability, because device 1 will probably just handle Format X & Y whereas device 2 handles Y & Z.

    One can see this with mp3-portables.
    One can play mp3 + wma, the other one just wma + aac, and so forth. But it's hard, if not impossible, to find a player with decent features and support for the formats you wish.

    1. Re:even more standards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, we should all start using WMA because you are too lazy to read what is written on the package?

    2. Re:even more standards? by FlashBuster3000 · · Score: 1

      mh, i don't think i said that, and i guess you got my point..
      It's just far more customer-friendly to use a few standards than a whole bunch of them, that basically do the same or share similar goals.

  4. Committee Driven results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am anonymous because I am on the OpenSL ES committee.

    Don't expect any results soon, it took over 50 emails just to decide on the friggin name! This committee has some big companies in it and each company want to see their 'thing' become standard....its going to be an uphill battle all the way.