Architecture

Core functionality

Besides the specified plugins, the ADTF Runtime already provides some core functionality:

Class	Description
Session Manager	The ADTF Session Manager is required for startup a ADTF Launcher.
RPC Object Server Registry	The ADTF Object Server Registry is a single instance to create a single adress entry for RPC Server Objects.
Logging RPC	The ADTF Logging RPC is an interface to access log messages from ADTF System / ADTF Launcher.
Sample Stream Tracer RPC	The ADTF Sample Stream Tracer RPC is an interface to access statistics of streaming data.

Streaming within ADTF

All about the Filter Graph - Streaming within ADTF is the conclusion of the Streaming Architecture.

Understand what the components within a Filter and see how to transport data from one filter to the other. what is a Data Pipe and what is a Trigger Pipe.

• Streaming Architecture
• Filter
• Sample
• Stream Type
• Substreams
• Streaming Service
• Sample Stream
• Output Pin and Sample Writer/Pin Writer
• Input Pin and Sample Reader/Pin Reader
• Overview of Writing and Reading Data
• Data Pipe
• Trigger Pipe
• Inner Trigger Pipe of a Filter
• Active Runner
• Streaming Graph

System and Session Managment

What happens during which states and which components are involved ?
System and Session Managment sums up the required information for common runtime and system understanding.

• ADTF System
• ADTF Service
• ADTF Session
• Session Initialization

Using DDL within ADTF

How data is described and used, here is the perfect entry for a deep dive.

• ADTF and DDL
• adtf::mediadescription
• Open Source DDL Library
• ADTF Codecs and SampleCodecs

Concepts

The framework handles a lot of definition and ideas, we recommend to have look at those pages and following.

• uCOM Plugin Handling
• uCOM Cast
• uCOM Reference Counting
• uCOM OID and CID
• uCOM Dependency Handling
• Operation Modes
• Clock Handling
• Kernel Handling
• Plugin Description
• Error Handling
• Macros
• Common Configuration Options
• Attached Files
• Generic Pixel Format
• Versioned Namespaces