Operating System Support for Multimedia: Survey

Multimedia is an increasingly important part the mix of applications that users run on personal computers and workstations. The requirements placed on a multimedia operating system are demanding and often conflicting. After studying multimedia characteristics and multimedia system requirements, this paper presents a new operating system for multimedia files and applications and it calls this operating system an Optimal Multimedia Operating System as optimal operating system solution for multimedia applications and files and compare this optimal operating system with three existing operating system: QLinux, Mac osx Leopard, Windows Vista.