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9: Working with Audio and Video > INTRODUCING THE OPEN SOURCE MEDIA FRAMEWORK
INTRODUCING THE OPEN SOURCE MEDIA FRAMEWORK
The Open Source Media Framework is an open source development framework for Flash-based media players, aimed at simplifying the build of media based applications, in particular utilizing audio and video.
Figure 9-1 shows the OSMF logo.
The open nature of OSMF and its pluggable architecture facilitates a collaborative development effort in the Flash community, with Adobe and many third parties developing plug-ins that can swap in and out of media players. In addition, the core OSMF source code is updated at periodic intervals.
However, you should note that at the time of writing the release version of OSMF is version 1.5, while the latest working version is sprint 1.6.
You will need to download a copy of the OSMF source code to include as part of your mobile projects. Download the release version from the Source Forge website at http://sourceforge.net/projects/osmf.adobe/files/.
