San Jose, CA — (press release excerpt) — Metro Link and LynuxWorks today announced support for Metro-Media, Metro Link's X Window System extension, on LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux, bringing multimedia functionality to embedded applications. This combination of technology gives developers the ability to embed MPEG video in their Linux-based target devices. Metro-Media features include image capture and display, audio capture and playback, hardware-accelerated MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 support, full-motion video capture and playback, and full-motion video capture and playback with real-time support. Metro Link has also ported its mission-critical X server, Metro-X, and other X Window System products to BlueCat Linux.

Metro-Media adds a full range of multimedia tools to the Metro Link family of products. Metro-Media is useful for both end users and developers, as it contains basic applications as well as libraries for developers to incorporate multimedia functionality into their own custom applications.

Included with Metro-Media is the Metro-Xv package — an extension to the X Window System, which provides real-time video in a window. Metro-Xv offers a device-independent method to control and manipulate real-time video windows in a manner consistent with the standard X programming interface. The user has full control over parameters, which include window positioning, size, color saturation, hue, brightness, contrast, input video source selection and scaling factor.

Metro-Media supports full-motion video capture and playback to and from the local hard disk or over the network. The network distribution can be either a point-to-point transmission or a broadcast to many locations. The applications for Metro-Media are limitless. They can be as common as teleconferencing or as specialized as required. Some typical applications include security monitoring, playback of training videos, video on demand, and video teleconferencing.

 
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