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    12 <concept id="GUID-FF08B8F5-9881-5BA3-ACD1-C09E40A09438" xml:lang="en"><title>Multimedia

    13 Plug-ins Overview</title><shortdesc>This topic provides an overview of the components that form the

    14 Multimedia Plug-ins collection. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

    15 <section><title>Purpose</title> <p>The Multimedia Plug-ins collection represents

    16 a plug-in framework for handling multimedia data. </p> </section>

    17 <section><title>Architecture</title> <p>The components in the Multimedia Plug-ins

    18 collection are used by the components in the Multimedia APIs and Frameworks

    19 collection. The following diagram shows the architecture of the Multimedia

    20 Plug-ins collection: </p> <fig id="GUID-2132F240-AC05-5F54-A9A6-4332707CC387">

    21 <title>              Multimedia Plug-ins architecture            </title>

    22 <image href="GUID-5B8061C3-3BED-51D7-9919-5BA16EA6C6FE_d0e521970_href.png" placement="inline"/>

    23 </fig> </section>

    24 <section><title>Description</title> <p>The Multimedia Plug-ins collection

    25 provides a generic plug-in architecture for the Camera Framework, Imaging

    26 Frameworks and Multimedia Framework (MMF) components. The following types

    27 of plug-ins are available: </p> <ul>

    28 <li id="GUID-9693A45C-7A3C-57C7-9E32-E00335865AE3"><p>Codec plug-ins provide

    29 the conversion between different data types. </p> </li>

    30 <li id="GUID-8DC6F831-361B-5C17-9A17-2F2FA5C1107B"><p>Controller plug-ins

    31 enable support for audio and video formats. </p> </li>

    32 <li id="GUID-EC5F52B0-065E-54E9-B4BB-991BAB6D7E56"><p>Content Rendering Plug-ins

    33 (CRPs) are plug-ins that are loaded into the Window Server process for server-side

    34 rendering. For more information, see <xref href="GUID-0C4B86B5-530A-5839-86C1-46E7ABE281E0.dita">Window

    35 Server Component</xref>. </p> </li>

    36 </ul> </section>

    37 <section><title>Components</title> <p>The Multimedia Plug-ins collection comprises

    38 the following components: </p> <ul>

    39 

    40 <li id="GUID-91A78BA4-B6F5-59C8-B120-D68BB0103D45"><p> <b> Camera Plug-ins</b> -

    41 provides a Camera stub plug-in implementation. For information about Camera

    42 Plug-ins see, <xref href="GUID-2CEF22AD-7F80-58CE-AF5F-C7BF636D524F.dita">Camera

    43 Plug-in Overview</xref>. </p> </li>

    44 <li id="GUID-8EA928CF-9E38-573B-B767-C42F44CD00FD"><p> <b>Imaging Plug-ins</b> -

    45 encodes and decodes various imaging formats, for example, GIF and JPEG. For

    46 information about Imaging Plug-ins see, <xref href="GUID-7226DB6E-93E9-57E6-B7AB-043E1C5E2A7F.dita">Imaging

    47 Plug-ins Overview</xref>. </p> </li>

    48 <li id="GUID-FB7F3BF6-1E31-546C-9B84-245350489045"><p> <b>Video Subtitle CRP

    49 (Content Rendering Plug-in)</b> - displays video subtitles. For information

    50 about Video Subtitle CRP see, <xref href="GUID-80E8BA3A-FDF3-50A5-BF44-181C40C31F09.dita">Video

    51 Subtitle CRP Overview</xref>. </p> </li>

    52 </ul> </section>

    53 <section><title>Using Multimedia Plug-ins</title> <p>You can use the functionality

    54 provided by the Multimedia Plug-ins collection to: </p> <ul>

    55 <li id="GUID-35CB2977-799F-579E-A7DA-14ED0923E620"><p>Implement the camera

    56 stub plug-in. </p> </li>

    57 <li id="GUID-2CB2C2CF-C5B0-542C-A3F4-0FF229CECF46"><p>Encode and decode imaging

    58 formats. </p> </li>

    59 <li id="GUID-FC228509-5AC3-59EE-85DC-A5E2BC8A74DC"><p>Display video subtitles. </p> </li>

    60 </ul> </section>

    61 </conbody><related-links>

    62 

    63 <link href="GUID-6F6B6C23-D5CF-5BE7-A001-EE87BC76A65D.dita"><linktext>Camera Plug-in</linktext>

    64 </link>

    65 <link href="GUID-B61F5B98-E76E-52BF-ACB6-0C68314F190E.dita"><linktext>Imaging Plug-in</linktext>

    66 </link>

    67 <link href="GUID-412CB101-A92C-54E1-9518-79E94DD40A08.dita"><linktext>Video Subtitle

    68 CRP</linktext></link>

    69 <link href="GUID-B58DEF65-B08F-5D0B-98E7-EB8DB7082F8B.dita"><linktext>Writing 

    70                Multimedia Framework Plug-ins</linktext></link>

    71 </related-links></concept>