The goal of the MPEG Multimedia Middleware (M3W) is to improve application portabiilty and interoperability through the specification of a set of APIs dedicated to multimedia.
POSIX is a Unix-like operating system application program interface, with real-time extensions that make it possible to implement operating systems that can support portability of applications with real-time requirements.
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