The Khronos Group has achieved the first stable release of its software development kit (SDK) for OpenML 1.0, a digital media API that, if widely adopted, would enable content authoring application developers to easily integrate video, audio, and 3D graphics capabilities in a standardized manner portable across multiple operating systems, CPU architectures, and add-in hardware devices.

A free beta of the SDK was released in December of last year, and was downloaded more than 4,000 times, Khronos reports. An alpha version was released in July. The OpenML API Specification has been downloaded over 13,000 times.

According to the Khronos Group, the OpenML 1.0 SDK contains: executable libraries and utilities to enable OpenML applications to run on Linux, IRIX, and Windows systems; source and header files for the libraries to enable new OpenML applications to be built; source code for example OpenML applications, and audio and video device modules which can be used as a starting point for building commercial applications. It also includes documentation.

“The OpenML specification provides hardware and software interoperability for media authoring applications, enabling products to make use of any OpenML-compliant component,” said Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group and a senior vice president at 3Dlabs.

The OpenML 1.0 SDK is available at no charge, under the terms of a license available at the Khronos Group Website. An OpenML Adopters Program is defining conformance tests to enable the OpenML trademark to be used on conformant products.

The Khronos Group has also started work on the next version of OpenML, which will take advantage of OpenGL Shading Language and other advances.

The Khronos Group, a member-supported organization driving digital media standardization, also promotes the OpenGL embedded subset, a royalty free 2D/3D graphics API for embedded devices released in July, and first implemented in February of this year.

 
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