Digital photo frames are gaining popularity at a swift pace as prices drop and they go more mainstream. Many digital photo frames can't show multimedia content like video. Samsung has a new media processor that is designed specifically for the digital photo frame market.

The processor is called the S5L2010 and offers the performance to allow developers to build multimedia functionality into their offerings. The processor has built-in accelerators for computational-intensive tasks.

Samsung says that tests show the new processor can decode massive 57-megapixel images in just one second. Other features of the processor include the ability to decode audio and video in multiple formats including MPEG-1/2/4, Xvid, Motion JPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, and AAC. The processor is built on the ARM core and will be in mass production in Q1 2009.

Via Samsung