LinuxPR: RidgeRun Announces Open Multimedia Interface for Linux

“RidgeRun has announced sponsorship for GStreamer, a popular
Open Source streaming media framework.”

“At LinuxWorld, RidgeRun, Inc., announced their Open Multimedia
Interface (OMI), an API and multimedia plug-in for Linux. With OMI,
Linux software developers now have an easy way to integrate
multimedia functionality into applications and games. OMI is
simple, powerful and lightweight to meet the constraints of
embedded devices as well as supporting high-end systems. The
company’s intent is to help developers create multimedia-enabled
applications and games for Linux. RidgeRun’s DSPLinux^TM
excels at running multimedia content on embedded systems by using
the strengths of Digital Signal Processors.”

“RidgeRun has announced sponsorship for GStreamer, a popular
Open Source streaming media framework, which is an important
infrastructure component of OMI. “There are many great Open Source
libraries out there,” said Phil Verghese, RidgeRun’s CTO, “but most
are tied to specific applications and few scale well. GStreamer
stands out from the rest, because of its good design and multimedia
performance.” Verghese explained, “Within the Linux community
today, there is a considerable excitement and activity around
integrating multimedia into applications and games. At RidgeRun, we
want to promote and foster that activity to enable more compelling
Linux applications. OMI offers a powerful, yet simple to use API
which easily supports current and future multimedia standards, in
an application-friendly Open Source framework that extends the
great foundation of GStreamer.”

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