Its main advantages are that the pluggable components also make it possible to write a full flegded video or audio editing application. The framework is based on plug-ins that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The plugins can be connected and arranged in a pipeline. This pipeline defines the flow of the data. Pipelines can also be edited with a GUI editor and saved as XML so that pipeline libraries can be made with a minimum of effort.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently.
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