NVIDIA Jetson Xavier - Multimedia API (MMAPI)
Multimedia API also known as MMAPI is a collection of lower-level APIs that support application development. MMAPI is for developers who use a custom framework or wish to avoid a framework like GStreamer. 
Downloading MMAPI
MMAPI should be downloaded separately from the NVIDIA Jetson Download Center L4T Multimedia API 31.0.1
Components
- Libargus for imaging applications.
 - Buffer utility for buffer allocation, management and sharing.
 - NVOSD for On-Screen display.
 - V4l2 API extensions for video converter, decoder and encoder support.
 - Aplication framework
 - Samples that demostrate image processing with CUDA, object detection and classification with cuDNN, TensorRT and OpenCV4Tegra usage.