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BlackBerry Playbook

dan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:47:02 +0000

The QNX MM team has been hard at work on the blackberry playbook, things are starting to pay off as we get closer to the finish line. Check out a few of these videos from monday and tuesday this week.

Jim Balsillie demoing QNX driving multiple use cases including video and camera:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/16/blackberry-playbook-first-hands-on-video/

QNX MM 1.2 is Released

dan — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:47:25 +0000

Our team has finished Aviage MM 1.2. Its got some excellent features and new platforms that it supports. Notably:

DVD-V playback
Video file playback
Microsoft Zune support
Significant improvements to Album Art support
Significant improvements to metadata synchronization speeds
Additional playlists supported
Faster startup, much less memory used
RTP & HTTP streaming
TI OMAP3 Codec Engine (audio decoders)
Intel Performance Primitives codecs

There are lots of other improvements also. We’ve been busy this past 6 months!

You can find more information about it here:
http://www.qnx.com/products/middleware/multimedia.html

This project is developed openly on the foundry27 site where you can get source code and daily builds. If you’re looking to try it out you can do that for free with one of those daily builds on top of QNX Momentics 6.4.0 or 6.4.1(soon to be released).

Multimedia on Foundry27

dan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:45:07 +0000

The multimedia project I work on at QNX is now available on foundry27. Foundry27 is QNX’s development portal where you can find software projects actively being developed.

On the foundry27 site for multimedia you can get source code, documentation, forums and other great resources. The source code is the latest and greatest, updated every night at 2am and right after that a binary nightly build is available. If you want to build the source, make sure to check our the source guide wiki page that describes the straight forward process.

We put together a QNX video a while ago where I walk through at a high level what each of the components are. Here it is:

Audi turns to Nvidia for 3D navigation

dan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:04:06 +0000

QNX RTOS and multimedia are helping to drive this new infotainment system provided in the latest Audi’s.

Audi turns to Nvidia for 3D navigation: “

Audis new navigation system includes 3D textured buildings.

(Credit: Audi)

Audi’s new Q5 sports navigation graphics empowered by chip maker Nvidia, along with a radically updated dashboard interface, which Audi calls the Multimedia Interface, or MMI. Integrated into the new navigation system is an automotive grade Nvidia …

“

(Via Car Tech: An automotive blog from CNET.)

QNX Multimedia at Convergence!

dan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:14:01 +0000

QNX is at convergence this year with a great demo. Some great things from a multimedia perspective that we’re showing at this demo:

* Zune playback
* iPod 1-wire playback
* USB Mass storage playback
* Youtube
* Video games
* Multinode: you can plug in an iPod in the front, and listen to it in the back seat using headphones
* From you LCD panel dash cluster you can see what song you’re playing, and its artwork

I think this demonstrates a well “connected” car. You’ve got the devices, you’ve got the internet, and you’ve got several happy networked users!

Here is a photo of the booth:

![QNX Convergence Booth](/wp-content/uploads/booth.jpg)

There are more photos of this on [Paul Leroux's blog](http://onqpl.blogspot.com/2008/10/report-from-convergence.html “On Q: Report from Convergence”).

There are lots of other advanced features that it shows as well such as voice integration, hands free support for bluetooth phones. I hope a few of you have a chance to see it.

iPod integration in the car

dan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:04:59 +0000

Cars are getting to be pretty advanced and feature rich. [CNET has an article that talks about how iPods are integrated into more than half of 2009 models](http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10064887-48.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheCarTechblog “Raising the bar: iPod integration in more than half of 2009 models | Car Tech: An automotive blog from CNET – CNET Reviews”). QNX likely has contributed a large portion to many of these models. Its satisfying to see your work end up in real-world product.

[The article](http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10064887-48.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheCarTechblog “Raising the bar: iPod integration in more than half of 2009 models | Car Tech: An automotive blog from CNET – CNET Reviews”) also has some interesting stats on hard drives and bluetooth integration in cars. The head units in cars these days are as powerful as many desktop computers and have even more peripherals.

Now unfortunately, the one thing the article has completely wrong is that “Microsoft Automotive Platform … offers the most universal integration”. If I were to compare MS Auto to QNX Car, I’d like to point out:

* CD’s are not dead. MS Auto currently doesn’t do CDs, or CD Changers. QNX is shipping in many cars today with that feature. We also support MP3-CD’s
* Ripping CDs, or USB Sticks. QNX’s MME manages all this for you so that when you ask to rip a CD or list of USB tracks to your hard drive it will do that as fast as possible without interrupting your playback. And if you power off your car, it’ll continue where it left off.
* Embedded hard drive support: without ripping, do you support a hard drive?
* Internet Radio integration.. how connected are you without the internet?
* QNX Car also has the same “most universal integration” features that MS has: USB Mass Storage, iPod, PlaysForSure, Zune, Bluetooth.
* QNX Car is shipping in many other makes than Ford. In fact the last stat I heard is that it is in over 40% of the 2009 models! I should talk to marketing to get a completely accurate number.

As usual, Microsoft has lots of dollars to spend on advertising, but the real question is how good is their product? QNX has always been quality driven, and therefore is chosen to run space equipment, nuclear power plants, and the fancy features in your car.

Last.fm announces subscription service

dan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:30:14 +0000

[Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/ “Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution”) lets you choose an artist or tag and play music in a streamed fashion just like a radio station would only you have a large choice of what to play from since you can start with any artist or tag you like.

Today they announced that from the website you can play full-length tracks of your choosing a few times and after that you can pay for a subscription. Another subscription service but this one also offers independent artists a chance to share their music and get paid for it also. [Here is the last.fm blog post.](http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music “Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music”)

As usual with legal agreements with the big labels, this hasn’t rolled out in most of the world yet.. And if it’s anything like the [Apple iTunes](http://www.apple.com/itunes/ “Apple – iPod + iTunes”) movie sales I won’t be expecting it in Canada sometime soon.