Specifications

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• Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA): DLNA defines a standard for transferring
movies, photos, music, and other media from one device to another. DLNA servers can
store media in one location and stream the media to DLNA-compliant players without
any setup or configuration. Media Core acts as a Digital Media Player (DMP) attached to
a Digital Media Server (DMS) or Mobile Digital Media Server (M-DMS) to consume audio
content.
• Bluetooth A2DP and Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) Bluetooth profiles:
Media Core can enable playback of music wirelessly from phones and other devices that
support these Bluetooth profiles.
• Supported media formats: Media Core can access, index, and play WMA, MP3, PCM,
WAV, and AAC files. Media Core also supports playlists, including those in Moving
Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator (M3U), Advanced
Stream Redirector (ASX), and Windows Media Player Playlist (WPL) formats, in addition
to the native formats that are supported on iPod and Zune devices. New playlist formats
and codecs can be added through the Media Core extension models.
• Album art: Supported album art formats include embedded metadata, folder.jpg,
iPod/iPhone, Zune, and MTP.
Media Core can query custom metadata, add custom metadata to the index, use a metadata file
parser plug-in, and direct access to services and devices. Additionally, new codecs can be added,
new playlist formats can be supported, and entirely new classes of devices can be added to
Media Core by using the extensibility model.
Media Feature Enhancements
The Media Core provided with Windows Embedded Automotive 7 provides a number of
enhancements over previous versions of Microsoft Auto.
DLNA provides the ability for media, such as music, pictures, and video, to be transferred
between multiple devices. Media can be stored on DLNA servers and then streamed to DLNA-
compliant players without any setup or configuration. Automotive 7 supports connecting to a
DLNA server to act as a digital media player.
Automotive 7 Media Core also adds and enhances support for Apple iPhone/iPod Touch
accessory protocol technologies, including changes made in iOS 4 that support new technologies
such as iDPS and the extended application framework (EAF) protocol. iDPS is a new
authentication and handshake protocol supported on iPhone/iPod Touch firmware 3.x and
higher. EAF requires iDPS and allows application-to-accessory communications. For example,
EAF could enable a telediagnosis application that could upload vehicle information to an
application on an iPhone for processing or forwarding to a technical support server.
Also new in Media Core is the ability for multiple applications to access the media index. A
secondary application can access the index for MSD devices and receive notifications from any
device types supported through Media Core.