SDL

• http://libsdl.org/ - Simple Directmedia Layer

• License: LGPL

• Cross-platform multimedia library (similar usefulness as DirectX)

• Provides low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.

• Originally created for writing games. Now also used in embedded systems. Many libraries, applications and demos available.

• Native C API - Bindings for other programming and scripting languages.

• Details in http://free-electrons.com/training/multimedia