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CyberLink Meets Python

Honder Tzou <honder@cyberlink.com> Chief Architect

訊連科技

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PowerDVD

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PowerDVD Linux

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PowerCinema

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PowerCinema Linux

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PhotoDirector

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PhotoDirector Mac

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Agenda

The engine behind these applications

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Back to 2003…

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Motivation

• Rapid Development

– Simple

– Flexible

• Cross Platform

– Maximizing productivity

• Immersive User Experience

– High performance animated UI elements

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Koan Engine

• UI Framework

• Based on Python language

• Scriptable

• Cross Platform

• Cross Graphics API

• Parametric and programmatic UI

• Specialized Features

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Python

• Cross Platform

• Scripting and Typeless

• Unicode Support

• Rich libraries

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Architecture

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Application

Controls

Framework Core

OS Services

KXML

D3D 7/9/11

OpenGL

Application Kernels

Application DLLs GDI

Layout

Pyth

on

C

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Composition Engine

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Design Challenges

100ms & 16ms

UI Responsiveness and Smoothness

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Rendering Architecture

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eventHandler

updateDraw

Render Commands Render Commands

Swap

Resources

Prefetch

UI Thread

IO Thread

Render Thread

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Summary

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• Simple and Accessible

• Easy to Extend

• Maximized Productivity

• Programming is FUN

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Thank you