Igalia

The Multimedia Application Framework (MAFW) tries to complement and enhance the multimedia experience in Nokia's Maemo platform, providing developers with a flexible, easy to use, and extendable high level layer on top of the already available multimedia technologies.

Specifically, MAFW provides application developers with:

• An extendable, pluggable framework interface, which allows to develop new plugins that integrate with new multimedia services or rendering engines and which can be seamlessly integrated in all MAFW based applications.
• Easy to use APIs that speed up application development, providing support for playback control, discovery and browsing of multimedia resources as well as playlist manipulation.
• Independence of the technology. Since MAFW is a plugin based framework, it is not tied to any particular multimedia technology. Plugin developers have freedom to choose the technologies they want to use in their plugins, and these are transparent to application developers.

MAFW is part of Maemo 5 (Fremantle), Nokia's open source operating system for embedded devices, and it is powering the built-in media player application running on the Nokia N900.

Igalia collaborated in the design and development of MAFW since its conception all the way through to its official release as part of the Maemo 5 platform and the Nokia N900.