MediaCore – IVI Multimedia Middleware

MediaCore is the automotive industry’s leading multimedia player middleware.  Backed up by Jungo’s extensive experience and technology leadership in multimedia playback, media management and consumer device connectivity, MediaCore meets all present and future IVI needs and facilitates the rapid and cost-effective IVI product development that Tier 1 suppliers require.

 

MediaCore’s modular and scalable design enables Tier-1 infotainment manufacturers to leverage their investments over multiple OEM projects, on low/mid/high end IVI systems, with different operating systems and CPUs.

Moreover, MediaCore’s rich roadmap with support for all modern devices, formats and protocols, makes it the clear choice of the world’s top Automotive Infotainment vendors.

  • Jungo’s MediaCore is highly modular and configurable, allowing product development with extensive code reuse and easy upgradability for units in the field or on the production line. It also ensures the lowest possible system bill of materials (BOM) by feature adjustments matching a hardware scale-down.
  • New engagement models enable customers to experience hands-on development with MediaCore during product prototyping stages, thus mitigating project risk.
  • MediaCore is a one-stop-shop multimedia middleware with full coverage of all critical performance aspects of an embedded multimedia player. Consequently, customers enjoy short integration processes.
  • MediaCore’s high-level API framework enables customers to focus on added-value aspects of the IVI system, such as screen UX, metadata presentation and hardware optimization.  Additionally, common APIs are used across multiple media types and sources, thus drastically minimizing the HMI development time.
  • Each MediaCore customer enjoys a flexible Support  Level Agreement (SLA) suited to the level of its usage.

Software and Hardware Platforms

  • Supports automotive-grade operating systems contact Jungo for more information
  • Support for automotive-grade industry platforms: Freescale i.MX, TI Jacinto and OMAP, Intel Atom, NVIDIA Tegra, Renesas R-Car, CSR Prima, Broadcom Alchemy and others.

Multimedia Playback:

  •  Full Audio and Video capabilities.
  • Audio and video codec support, including hardware acceleration plugins and DSP offloading.
  • Multi-zone audio and video
  •  HTTP steaming
  •  Extended control features for subtitles, audio tracks and various effects.
  • Trick play
  • Multiple concurrent sources and sinks
  • Intelligent metadata parsing and handling
  • Play state management
  • Play from USB devices – file system devices (flash drive, HDD, SD card, selected smartphones), Apple devices (iAP, iAP2), Android (MTP, AOAP) and Windows Phone/8 (MTP)
  • Play from Wireless devices – smartphones (AVRCP, A2DP, Wireless iAP, DLNA
  • Optical media – CDDA, DVD, Blu-ray navigation and playback
  •  Internet and cloud content (Pandora Radio, YouTube, Vimeo and others)

Content Management:

  • Ultra fast indexing and media aggregation from multiple sources
  •  Configurable indexing policies
  • Device-based file browsing
  • Album cover art support and coverflow
  •  Gracenote support
  • CDDB and IMDB support
  •  Multi-language support
  •  Configurable queries
  • Multi-level selection of items
  • Playlist management

Certification and compliance:

  • GENIVI. MediaCore is one of the first 20 components participating in the Works With GENIVI (WWG) certification program.
  • ATS. MediaCore is  fully validated with Apple ATS to ensure speedy go-to-market for customers.
  • Pandora
  •  Gracenote

 

Jungo services team include expert engineers with extensive experience in embedded software engineering, multimedia playback and media device management, helping customers all the way through to production:

  •  Hundreds of man-years of experience in automotive integration and support, from conception to production.
  • Dedicated project management teams, each comprising a project manager, a senior architect and engineers, assist customers during the critical stages of the project.
  • Technical workshops, either on-site at the customer or at Jungo’s technology facility, provide customers with hands-on MediaCore knowledge and experience.
  • 100% success rate in taking customers to production.