This document introduces you to the Device Framework collection.
Device Framework provides a framework and plug-ins for hardware accelerated access to media services.
The Device Framework is the layer below the controller plug-ins and above the hardware.
The Device Framework provides the following for hardware accelerated access to sound, video, and speech recognition services:
The Media Device Framework provides a codec interface that can support both audio and video codecs.
The Speech Recognition framework provides a uniform interface to underlying speech algorithms that can be implemented in software, or potentially in hardware to take advantage of hardware acceleration.
The collection comprises the following components: