Multimedia support in CopperSpice is provided by the CsMultimedia library. This library provides access to platform multimedia capabilities such as media playback, camera, and radio devices.

The following list shows some of the operations available in CsMultimedia, depending on your target platform.

• Access raw audio devices for input and output
• Play low latency sound effects
• Play media files in playlists, such as compressed audio or video files
• Record audio and compress it
• Tune and listen to radio stations
• Use a camera, including viewfinder, image capture, and movie recording
• Decode audio media files into memory for processing
• Accessing video frames or audio buffers as they are played or recorded

Multimedia Components

The API for CsMultimedia can be separated into four main components.

• Audio Overview
• Camera Overview
• Radio Overview
• Video Overview

Multimedia

The following information is a guide for which classes in CsMultimedia can be used to do a particular task.