Crystal2 is the modular, portable, high-performance environment suitable for cross-platform time-critical application development.

The key features of Crystal2:

• Component Object Model like object model with strict component separation;
• strict ANSI C ABI helping in integration with other programming languages (.NET, Perl);
• implementation in ANSI C++ with C and assembler optimizations, providing unmatched performance characteristics;
• portability and scalability between desktop and embedded systems (already works on Symbian, PocketPC, Linux and Windows).

Crystal2 provides the company all necessary tools and libraries to build general-purpose and specifically multimedia applications in portable manner, reducing the development effort and money spent just extending the feature set of the platform by writing components(plugins).

Preliminary version of Crystal2 framework documentation made by Doxygen is available at http://dn.crystalreality.com.

Crystal2 equips MakeSystem, which provides automatic generation of:

• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 solutions (Win32);
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 solutions (Win32 & WinCE);
• Linux Makefiles;
• Symbian .MMPs.

on the basis of configuration .xml file, describing included components.

Crystal2 is built from the set of packages, providing the functionality required by application. The main packages are:

• C2 Kernel
• C2 Media
• C2 UI

Currently, the implementation of C2 Kernel & C2 Media is available for:

• Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP, 2003
• WinCE 3.0/PocketPC
• Symbian 6.1-8.0
• Linux

C2 UI is implemented for Windows 9x/XP and Linux via GTK+ toolkit.

Crystal2 is the basis for all upcoming Crystal Reality products, including CrystalPlayer, Crystal2Mobile Producer, Crystal2Mobile Player and finally CrystalDVD. All those products will be completely customizable and provide plugin support for extending/replacing functionality.

If you are interested in our technology and want to know how Crystal2 can help you in multimedia development, free to contact us via info@crystalreality.com.