ISO/IEC 23004-1 (2007-09)

ISO/IEC 23004-1:2007 specifies the architecture of the MPEG Multimedia Middleware technology. Multimedia Middleware (M3W) allows application software to execute multimedia functions with a minimum knowledge of the inner workings of the multimedia middleware as well as to support a structured way of updating, upgrading and/or extending the multimedia middleware. The architecture consists of the following.
* M3W API:
* multimedia API (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-2);
* interfaces for audio broadcast decoding, processing and rendering;
* interfaces for video broadcast decoding, processing and rendering;
* IPMP interfaces;
* governance interfaces.
* Support API (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-3 to ISO/IEC 23004-7):
* interfaces for instantiation of services (Runtime Environment and Service Manager);
* interfaces for interaction with remote services (REMI-P and REMI-R, REMI stands for Remote Method Invocator);
* interfaces for Resource Management;
* interfaces for Component Download;
* interfaces for Fault Management;
* interfaces for Integrity Management.
* Realization technology (specified in detail in ISO/IEC 23004-3):
* Unit of Trading;
* Unit of Loading;
* Unit of Instantiation;
* standard interfaces:
* navigation between interfaces,
* binding,
* access to public attributes.