Richardson, Texas-based MediaMagic Inc has announced the first shipments of the 700SDK Software Developer’s Kit Option. Combined with MediaMagic’s EISA-compliant Base Video Board, CD Quality Audio Option and JPEG Compression Daughter Card, the 700SDK is a multimedia enhancement for the Hewlett-Packard Co Series 700 workstation. The Kit enables developers to integrate 24-bit full-motion video, synchronised audio and JPEG compression into their applications, the firm claims. It contains multi-layered Source Code Levels and provides over 60 SDK functions callable from C source code; 12 General Hardware functions for hardware initialisation and status information; 29 Video Hardware functions to control the video sub-system; 21 Audio Hardware functions to control the audio sub-system and a Custom Video Widget for Motif-based applications. The Software Developer’s Kit includes an Archive Library containing both source and sample code, a complete Function Calls listing and private and public domain tools to assist in image and audio viewing, listening, manipulating, editing and converting; source code is provided wherever possible.
