Mobile Media Developer podcast #2: OpenSL ES
Episode #2 in the Khronos Mobile Media Developer podcast series focuses on OpenSL ES - a cross-platform foundation for audio on mobile devices with support for interactive sound for games, streaming audio, music mixers and ringtones. OpenSL ES addresses the current industry problem of a bewildering variety of proprietary audio APIs in the mobile space. Games or music applications have to either write to the lowest common demonitor (which is very low) or lose portability between devices. OpenSL ES offers a cross-platform, common API, with support for current standards built in. In addition it provides standardized access to advanced audio functionality, as well as hardware accelerated support for higher-level audio APIs such as OpenAL.
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Mobile Media Developer podcast #1: OpenKODE
The Khronos Group has launched the first episode in the Mobile Media Developer podcast series. In this new series, the developers behind the industry standards for 3D, 2D, video and audio for mobile devices describe how the new technologies work and how they can be used by developers, carriers and manufacturers to create applications for mobile phone, handhelds and game consoles.
The first podcast previews the new OpenKODE APIs. OpenKODE provides functionally similar to DirectX on the desktop, except it is cross-platform, royalty-free and streamlined for handheld devices. The goal of OpenKODE is to make it easier for developers (and carriers) to deploy rich media applications on mobile phones, by providing system abstraction so that develoeprs don’t have to worry about the underlying handset hardware or OS. It also offers state-of-the-art media acceleration technologies as well as access to operating system resources, input devices and displays.
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OpenGL 2.1 increases power and flexibility of OpenGL’s programmable graphics pipeline;
The new OpenGL 2.1 specification adds backwards compatible enhancements to OpenGL’s advanced programmable pipeline including: Pixel Buffer Objects for fast texture and pixel copies between frame buffer and buffer objects in GPU memory; texture images specified in standard sRGB color space for enhanced application color management flexibility; and numerous additions to increase the flexibility of shader programming including non-square matrix support, support for arrays as first-class objects, a fragment position query in shaders using Point Sprites and an invariant attribute for variables to enhance shader code reliability.
Also announced, the Graphic Remedy Academic program will offer a free one year license to its gDEBugger OpenGL debugger and profiler tool to OpenGL developers in academia.
Imagination Technologies and Sony Ericsson release OpenGL ES 1.1 SDK for UIQ 3-based phones
Imagination Technologies and Sony Ericsson have released the first version of their OpenGL ES 1.1 SDK for UIQ 3 using Symbian OS v9.1. The new OpenGL ES 1.1 SDK integrates seamlessly with the UIQ 3 SDK and includes all the tools, technical documentation, white papers, problem solving tips and tricks, FAQs, tutorials and sample programs required to create 3D hardware accelerated graphics for the Sony Ericsson P990, M600 and W950 mobile phones. A collection of tutorials is included in the SDK to help developers get started using the OpenGL ES 1.1 API.
Firefox 1.5 (alpha 2) adds new HTML element for programmable graphics, with OpenGL ES-based 3D context likely
The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. The new Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 release includes a new