Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — The Khronos Group, a consortium of digital media and graphics industry leaders, today announced that the OpenML 1.0 specification has been unanimously ratified and is now publicly available. OpenML, a software environment that is complementary to the peer OpenGL API,… enables digital content authoring application developers to easily integrate video, audio and graphics capabilities into their application suites, and makes these applications portable over multiple operating systems, CPU architectures and add-in hardware devices.

The Khronos Group will be distributing the OpenML 1.0 specification at the SIGGRAPH 2001 exhibition at the Los Angeles Convention Center, from August 14-16. Any company interested in licensing the OpenML 1.0 specification, or involvement in the Khronos Group, is encouraged to visit www.khronos.org to download the specification and to obtain licensing and membership information.

The OpenML 1.0 specification may be licensed, royalty free, by any adopting company that desires to integrate OpenML functionality into hardware or software products, through the OpenML 1.0 adoption agreement.

The Khronos Group has been structured to enable any company to join the group as a Contributor and to participate in the development of the next version of the specification, the creation of reference implementations and the definition of conformance tests to ensure a high level of consistency between OpenML-compliant devices. All OpenGL-based work in the Khronos Group is being undertaken with the support of the OpenGL ARB, the governing body for the OpenGL specification.

Embedded industry participation sought

Khronos is also encouraging participation from the embedded industry in its new initiative to create small, profiled subsets of OpenGL and OpenML to enable dynamic media capabilities on a wide variety of appliances and embedded devices. By standardizing both authoring and embedded APIs, the Khronos Group is now working to create a high degree of compatibility and synergy between software environments for both dynamic media creation and delivery.

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