• AudioVideoGraphicsResources

Here are some miscellaneous resources related to audio, video and graphics systems under Linux:

Table Of Contents:

CELF 1.0 specification for AVG

(more like a set of recommendations rather than a specification)

• AudioVideoGraphicsSpec_R2

CELF AVG 2.0 specification

• AudioVideoGraphicsSpec_V2

Audio Video Working Group

AudioVideoGraphicsWorkingGroup

DirectFB study

What is DirectFB, How Does DirectFB Work

• WhatDirectFB

Sample Implementation of DirectFB on an embedded Linux platform

• PortDirectFB

Some DirectFB benchmark on embedded Linux platform

• BenchmarkDirectFB

Related Projects

Graphics/Video out

1. Framebuffer

   • - http://www.kernel.org/ (1) KD26/fb - http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/fbdev/HOWTO/ - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

2. DirectFB (uses 1)

   • - http://www.directfb.org/ - http://www.directfb.org/documentation/DirectFB_overview_V0.2.pdf

3. NanoX

   • - http://www.microwindows.org/

4. SDL

   • - http://www.libsdl.org/

5. Gstreamer

   • - http://www.gstreamer.net/

6. OpenGL (OpenML)

   • - http://www.opengl.org/ - http://www.khronos.org/opengles/

Video in

1. V4L[2]

   • - http://www.kernel.org/ (1) KD26/video4linux - http://bytesex.org/v4l/

2. OpenML

   • - http://www.khronos.org/openml/

3. LinuxTV (DVB API)

   • - http://www.linuxtv.org

Audio in/out

• 1 OSS

  • - http://www.kernel.org/ (1) KD26/sound/oss - http://www.4front-tech.com/oss.html

  2 ALSA

  • - http://www.kernel.org/ (1) KD26/sound/alsa - http://www.alsa-project.org

  3 OpenAL

  • - http://www.openal.org/

Users of AVG

• 1 VideoLan

  • - http://www.videolan.org

  2 Freevo

  • - http://freevo.sourceforge.net

  3 LinuxTV

  • - http://www.linuxtv.org/

  4 MythTV

  • - http://www.mythtv.org/

  5 DVR

  • - http://dvr.sourceforge.net/html/main.html

  6 OpenPVR

  • - http://www.funktronics.ca/openpvr/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpvr/

Other

• 1 TV Linux Alliance

  • - http://www.tvlinuxalliance.com/

  2 TV Anytime

  • - http://www.tv-anytime.org/

  3 Digital Home Working Group

  • - http://www.dhwg.org/

  4 BootSplash

  • - http://www.BootSplash.org/

  5 FreeType

  • - http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/

  6 ARIB architecture

  • - http://www.arib.or.jp/english/html/overview/ov/std_b24.html

Note (1) - KD26 refers to the Linux 2.6.X kernel tree, which has a "Documentation" sub-directory.