Multimedia framework to provide ultra-low power multimedia playback

A non-transitory medium, readable through a multimedia player and including instructions embodied therein to implement a multimedia framework to provide multimedia playback on the multimedia player, comprising:

• instructions to signify roles identified by the multimedia framework for a monolithic multimedia component thereof through a specific interface provided by the multimedia framework;
• instructions to control a data flow through the monolithic multimedia component through a component control unit layer configured to serve as a point of control of an application;
• instructions to pass a pointer through the specific interface signifying a role required by the application matching a role identified by the multimedia framework for the monolithic multimedia component to the application to indicate support of necessary interfaces providing communication between the application and the component control unit layer, in response to the application querying the component control unit layer for the specific interface;
• instructions to transmit a command from the application a tunnel of a multimedia stack interfaced with the monolithic multimedia component;
• and
• instructions to implement the multimedia stack with at least one of:
• a first block to parse an input,
• at least one second block to transform a first block output data of the first block, and
• a third block to place an output from the at least one second block on a rendering device,
• to ensure that the same monolithic multimedia component serves as at least one of:
• a source component to read and to parse the input,
• at least one transform component to transform the output data of the source component, and
• a renderer to place the output of the at least one transform component on the rendering device, and
• to further ensure that the application is unaware of the same monolithic multimedia component serving as the at least one of the source component, the at least one transform component, and the renderer.

A multimedia player to execute a multimedia framework to provide multimedia playback thereon, comprising:

• a processor to execute instructions to:
• signify roles identified by the multimedia framework for a monolithic multimedia component thereof through a specific interface provided by the multimedia framework,
• control a data flow through the monolithic multimedia component through a component control unit layer configured to serve as a point of control of an application,
• pass a pointer through the specific interface signifying a role required by the application matching a role identified by the multimedia framework for the monolithic multimedia component to the application to indicate support of necessary interfaces providing communication between the application and the component control unit layer, in response to the application querying the component control unit layer for the specific interface,
• transmit a command from the application a tunnel of a multimedia stack interfaced with the monolithic multimedia component, and
• implement the multimedia stack with at least one of:
• a first block to parse an input,
• at least one second block to transform a first block output data of the first block, and
• a third block to place an output from the at least one second block on a rendering device,
• to ensure that the same monolithic multimedia component serves as at least one of:
• a source component to read and to parse the input,
• at least one transform component to transform the output data of the source component, and
• a renderer to place the output of the at least one transform component on the rendering device, and
• to further ensure that the application is unaware of the same monolithic multimedia component serving as the at least one of the source component, the at least one transform component, and the renderer.