A multimedia framework is a software structure (usually a set of software libraries) that handles media on a computer and through a network. A good multimedia framework offers an intuitive API and a modular architecture to easily add support for new codecs or container formats. It is meant to be used by applications such as media players and audio or video editors. They are available for different operating systems: Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... In software development, a framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... API may refer to: In computing, application programming interface In petroleum industry, American Petroleum Institute In education, Academic Performance Index This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Codec is a portmanteau of either Compressor-Decompressor, Coder-Decoder, or Compression/Decompression algorithm which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. ... A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed in a manner of standardized codecs. ... A media player is a piece of application software for playing back multimedia files. ... The term video editing can mean more than one thing -- see: non-linear editing system, using computers electronic video editing, using videotape This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... An operating system is a special computer program that manages the relationship between application software, the wide variety of hardware that makes up a computer system, and the user of the system. ...

Linux or platform independent(portable): Tux is the official Linux mascot. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ...

• GStreamer
• FFmpeg
• xine
• MAS [1]
• NMM [2]
• MLT [3]

Microsoft Windows: GStreamer is an open source (LGPL) multimedia framework based on GObject. ... FFmpeg is a set of free computer programs that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. ... xine (officially pronounced zinny) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix released under the GNU General Public License. ... Microsoft Windows is a series of popular proprietary operating environments and operating systems created by Microsoft for use on personal computers and servers. ...

• DirectShow
• VfW

Apple Mac OS: Logo of the DirectX Media SDK - the first time DirectShow was distributed under its current name DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS), codename Quartz, is part of the Microsoft Platform SDK and is used for dealing with media files. ... Video for Windows was a multimedia technology developed by Microsoft that allowed Microsoft Windows to play digital video. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is a range of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. ...

• QuickTime

Symbian: QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive panoramic (and sphere panoramic) images. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian. ...

• MMF [4]