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•JMF API provides a layer of
abstraction that makes multimedia applications platform neutral.
•However a particular JMF
implementation can delegate compute-intensive tasks to native implementations
to improve performance.
•Windows performance pack, Solaris
performance pack and cross platform
implementation.
•Internet-based multimedia
application designer has to simply adhere to JMF API.
•If client machine has JMF
performance pack application will run faster.
•Otherwise … applications can still
run on cross platform JMF.