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Multimedia Renderer
Multimedia Renderer API
The multimedia renderer API exposes the data types and functions you can use to connect to mm-renderer, create contexts, configure inputs and outputs, control playback, and process events.
Events
The mm-renderer service can report events so you can monitor and react to changes in playback activity, input and output attachments, and any errors that occur.

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QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
- Quickstart Guide
- OS Components & Operations
- Audio & Graphics API
- Multimedia
  - Adding Multimedia to Target Images
  - Multimedia Renderer
    - Multimedia Renderer: Capabilities and Architecture
      The multimedia rendering service, mm-renderer, allows multimedia applications to play audio and video content from files and devices.
    - Configuring and Starting mm-renderer
      The multimedia renderer is a connection-based service that runs on the target system and allows media applications to control and monitor playback activity through API calls.
    - Playing and Recording Media Content
      The mm-renderer service lets you play audio and video tracks, and record audio content. You can select a file or streaming server as the input, and the appropriate hardware devices or rendering service for the outputs. During playback, mm-renderer manages the media flow based on commands.
    - Multimedia Renderer API
      The multimedia renderer API exposes the data types and functions you can use to connect to mm-renderer, create contexts, configure inputs and outputs, control playback, and process events.
      - Function safety
        Function safety refers to whether or not it's safe to use the multimedia renderer API functions in certain situations.
      - Connection management
        Your client application must connect to mm-renderer before it can do anything with the service.
      - Context management
        Each mm-renderer context manages a separate media flow independently of other contexts. The media flow is defined by the input and the outputs, and can be configured by parameters.
      - Error information
        The mm-renderer service stores information about any error that occurs when an API call is made. This information includes a code for the mm-renderer error type and other data specific to either the media protocol used or the underlying POSIX error.
      - Events
        The mm-renderer service can report events so you can monitor and react to changes in playback activity, input and output attachments, and any errors that occur.
        mmr_event_arm()
        Set a sigevent to deliver when a new mm-renderer event becomes available
        mmr_event_data_set()
        Set user data for the dictionary returned with the last event
        mmr_event_get()
        Get the next available event
        mmr_event_t
        Information about an mm-renderer event
        mmr_event_type_t
        The mm-renderer events reported by the API
        mmr_event_wait()
        Wait until an event is available
        mmr_metadata_split()
        Get metadata properties of a single track or image inside the input file
        mmr_state_t
        The context states
      - Input configuration
        You can attach an input to the context by naming the URL of a track or playlist stored on a media device or in the local filesystem. The acceptable URL formats vary with the input type. For some formats, you can include parameters in the URL string, to specify settings such as the audio sampling rate.
      - Output configuration
        You must attach an output to the context before attaching the input. An output is specified by a URL. The acceptable URL format depends on the output type, which can be an audio device, video device, subpicture (for delivering subtitles), or file. For video and subpicture outputs, the URL string can configure the output window.
      - Playback control
        After you've defined the input and outputs for a context, you can send it playback commands.
    - Dictionary Object API
  - Multimedia Streaming Server
  - Multimedia Test Utilities
  - OpenMAX AL Additions
- Networking Middleware
- Programming
- Sensor Framework
- System Security Guide
  The QNX System Security Guide is intended for both system integrators who are responsible for the security of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system and developers who want to create a QNX Neutrino resource manager free from vulnerabilities.
- Utilities & Libraries
QNX Hypervisor
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QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Events

The mm-renderer service can report events so you can monitor and react to changes in playback activity, input and output attachments, and any errors that occur.

The API includes functions for arming the notification of an mm-renderer event, waiting until an event occurs, and retrieving information on the latest event. The information is stored in an mmr_event_t structure and includes but is not limited to:

the event type
the new context state
the current playback speed
a warning string, when applicable
detailed error information, when applicable

You can process events in an automated way to keep up with the state of mm-renderer, by writing a loop that monitors events and processes them by storing their data and performing follow-up actions.

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