This document defines the Application Programming Interface (API) for the OpenMAX Development

Layer (DL). Published as an open standard by the Khronos Group, the DL provides a set of low-level

primitives to ensure portability across processors and hardware acceleration units for audio, video, and

imaging codecs used within embedded and/or mobile devices. The principal goal of the DL is to enable

portability of silicon acceleration for rich media codecs across diverse processor and acceleration

hardware architectures by providing an essential set of “hotspot” primitives.