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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 August 2001
TI and PacketVideo speed wireless
multimedia
Texas Instruments and PacketVideo are to create application development tools to speed development of streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices.
Texas Instruments and PacketVideo are to create application development tools to speed development of streaming multimedia applications for next-generation wireless devices based on TI's OMAP platform and PacketVideo's PVPlatform "By collaborating with PacketVideo, TI is placing the power of the OMAP architecture at the fingertips of multimedia application developers", said Alain Mutricy, general manager of TI's OMAP platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Together, we will enable application developers to harness the high-performance and power-saving from TI's DSP-based OMAP platform with PacketVideo's wireless multimedia software platform to create innovative and compelling rich media applications for the mobile environment".
PacketVideo and TI plan to introduce new application tools in 2002, which will accelerate the development of future applications to enable a wireless device user to take advantage of capabilities, such as voice recognition, in order to communicate hands-free and safely operate a mobile device.
The tools also will speed development of new features such as voice-activated interactive games and high quality streaming video and audio.
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PacketVideo's PVPlatform will provide streaming media support for TI's OMAP architecture for 2.5G and 3G mobile wireless devices such as cell phone handsets, PDAs, smartphones, laptop computers and others.
"This initiative with TI will provide our development community with access to groundbreaking features and functionalities - such as speech recognition, 2D animation and JPEG processing - to integrate into their applications", said Robert Tercek, president of PacketVideo's Applications and Services Division.
"By layering PVPlatform's streaming media capabilities on top of TI's OMAP platform, we are producing an incredible combination that will enable developers to integrate into their mobile applications the most advanced capabilities available".
The OMAP architecture gives developers easy access to TI's DSP multimedia algorithms, such as those TI and PacketVideo are collaborating on, which can be plugged into new applications to speed programs to market faster.
In addition, the OMAP platform is compatible with all of the familiar high-level operating systems in use today on wireless devices, including Microsoft Windows CE, Symbian OS, Palm OS, and programming languages like Java.
PacketVideo's PVPlatform delivers a variety of rich media content and applications to mobile devices.
It is a standards-compliant software platform that performs encoding, decoding and transmission management.
PVPlatform's error-resilient technology recognises and conceals the transmission errors that are prevalent in wireless networks, enabling mobile wireless devices to receive enhanced streaming video and audio at transmission speeds as low as 9.6kbit/s.
In addition, PVPlatform maintains interoperability with all major digital wireless telephony standards as well as next-generation wireless networks currently being developed.
PacketVideo and TI both offer application developer programs that equip members with the technical and marketing resources necessary to successfully define, build, test and commercialise compelling mobile applications on their respective technology platforms.
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