<s>
mediaLib	B-Language
(	O
from	O
"	O
multimedia	O
library	O
"	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
portable	B-Application
low	O
level	O
library	O
for	O
accelerating	O
multimedia	O
applications	O
,	O
with	O
interfaces	O
in	O
C	B-Language
.	O
It	O
was	O
developed	O
by	O
Sun	O
Microsystems	O
and	O
open-sourced	O
under	O
the	O
CDDL	B-Application
license	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
OpenSolaris	B-Operating_System
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
implemented	O
in	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
,	O
but	O
can	O
take	O
advantage	O
of	O
SIMD	B-Device
multimedia	O
instructions	O
on	O
various	O
processors	O
to	O
gain	O
a	O
significant	O
performance	O
boost	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
designed	O
to	O
leverage	O
VIS	B-General_Concept
on	O
SPARC	B-Architecture
processors	O
and	O
later	O
added	O
support	O
for	O
MMX/SSE/SSE2	O
on	O
Intel/AMD	O
processors	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
mediaLib	B-Language
is	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
and	O
SIMD	B-Device
multimedia	O
compiler	O
intrinsics	O
,	O
it	O
should	O
be	O
usable	O
on	O
any	O
system	O
that	O
has	O
an	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
compiler	O
that	O
supports	O
SIMD	B-Device
multimedia	O
intrinsics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Systems	O
without	O
SIMD	B-Device
intrinsics	O
support	O
can	O
also	O
use	O
it	O
as	O
pure	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
,	O
forgoing	O
any	O
extra	O
acceleration	O
provided	O
by	O
SIMD	B-Device
multimedia	O
instructions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
included	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
Solaris	B-Application
10	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
mediaLib	B-Language
2.5	O
contains	O
about	O
4000	O
files	O
and	O
2.4	O
million	O
lines	O
of	O
code	O
,	O
and	O
contains	O
more	O
than	O
3000	O
functions	O
for	O
different	O
areas	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Open	O
source	O
applications	O
that	O
use	O
mediaLib	B-Language
include	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
JDS	B-Language
for	O
Solaris	B-Application
,	O
mplayer	B-Application
,	O
and	O
ogle	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
several	O
mediaLib	B-Language
versions	O
targeting	O
different	O
platforms	O
,	O
but	O
all	O
share	O
the	O
same	O
API	B-Application
,	O
so	O
users	O
can	O
switch	O
from	O
one	O
platform	O
to	O
another	O
without	O
changing	O
source	O
code	O
:	O
</s>
