This document introduces you to the Multimedia Hardware Adaptation Interfaces collection.
Video hardware
The APIs are introduced with their components. The Multimedia components DevVideo and DevSound provide APIs for handling the media data once the raw data stream has been extracted by the Multimedia HAI components.
The Multimedia HAI provides support for controlling the hardware component, and handling the data streams.
The Video HAI defines an interface for plug-ins that provide video functionality.
Hardware integrators can write device drivers or servers to manage the component like:
Video
These components expose APIs that are independent of the underlying implementation and hardware specifics.