Date: 16/08/2009

New software framework from Aricent for multimedia rich consumer devices

Aricent has made available Media EXP, a software framework for multimedia-oriented consumer devices. Media EXP packs essential middleware components for designing products such as mobile Internet devices (MIDs), smart phones, entertainment devices, digital photo frames, portable media players, netbooks and more.

Aricent's Media EXP supports design of products with smaller screen sizes, low power consumption. Media EXP is compliant with the DLNA interoperability guidelines and connectivity protocols such as MTP and PictBridge.
Aricent claims, Media EXP delivers up to 44% improvement in battery life along with more than 50% encoding and decoding performance improvement as compared with open source solutions.

"The world of consumer electronics is hyper competitive today. Cost, time to market, small screen multimedia performance and wireless connectivity all must be harmonized into a compelling user experience," said Sajal Gupta, vice president of business development for wireless solutions at Aricent. "We introduced Media EXP to help our customers thrive in this environment and deliver innovative, high performance consumer electronics solutions while reducing costs and development complexity."

Media EXP suite offers essential multimedia components such as high-definition multimedia CODECs; communication applications for voice, video and Rich Communications Services (RCS); and device middleware interfaces, such as Real-Time Transport Protocol and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTP/RTSP); Video Telephony - 324M; and Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld (DVB-H).