I do not know if this has something to do with "IPP Unified Media Classes (UMC)".
If UMMS comes from the same background and provides highly optimized libraries that can dispatch not only according to the CPU capabilities, but also other decoder/encoder chips available, it sure will be a great product. I hope it is not yet another level of abstraction. Phonon is cross platform and QT API is just wonderful, if I need abstraction.
Posted Nov 3, 2011 21:54 UTC (Thu) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254)
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It's nothing to do with IPP. UMMS's original reference platform is the CE41xx "Sodaville" board, which has hardware encoding/decoding for pretty much every format used in the real world.
The software paths can use GStreamer, which has its own processor optimization magic based on liboil.