Editing OpenMAX (section)

==Layers==
'''OpenMAX AL''' is the interface between multimedia applications, such as a media player, and the platform [[media framework]]. It allows companies that develop applications to easily migrate their applications to different platforms (customers) that support the OpenMAX AL [[application programming interface]] (API).<ref>http://elinux.org/images/e/e0/The_OpenMAX_Integration_Layer_standard.pdf The OpenMAX Integration Layer standard</ref>

'''OpenMAX IL''' is the interface between media framework, (such as [[StageFright]] or MediaCodec API on Android, [[DirectShow]] on Windows, [[FFmpeg]] or [[GStreamer]] on Linux), and a set of multimedia components (such as an audio or video [[codec]]s). It allows companies that build platforms (e.g. allowing an implementation of an MP3 player) to easily change components like MP3 decoders and Equalizer effects and buy components for their platform from different vendors.<ref>http://elinux.org/images/5/52/Elc2011_garcia.pdf Integrating a Hardware Video Codec into Android Stagefright using OpenMAX IL</ref>

'''OpenMAX DL''' is the interface between physical hardware, such as [[digital signal processor]] (DSP) chips, [[Central processing unit|CPUs]], [[Graphics processing unit|GPUs]], and software, like video [[codec]]s and 3D engines. It allows companies to easily integrate new hardware that supports OpenMAX DL without reoptimizing their low level software.