The OM-1 organisation, set up in February 1994 in an attempt to establish an industry standard for the playback of MPEG video on personal computers, has announced the OM-1 MS-DOS MPEG applications programming interface for games developers. It claims it to be the industry’s first standard set of MPEG commands that will work on the wide variety of MPEG playback boards now coming onto the market. OM-1 claims to have had input from more than 70 companies, including Philips Consumer Electronics Co and Microsoft Corp in the development of the standard. The organisation is planning a certification system with labels for products that conform. Details of the standard can be downloaded from the Internet at ftp.creaf.com.
