Multimedia Playback

The LEADTOOLS Multimedia product line has everything you need to build a powerful multimedia playback application.

LEADTOOLS Multimedia Playback functionality includes:

• Ability to play all formats supported by DirectShow.
• Play streaming music and video from memory.
• Support for zooming the video during playback. Options include Fit to window, stretch, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, and full screen video options.
• Control the playback speed (2x, 3x, 4x, 1/2x, 1/3x, 1/4x).
• Support for playing DVD’s and DVD navigation.
• Support for any DirectShow video and DirectShow audio processing filters.
• Capture and save still bitmaps from the video stream with control over format and quality. Images can be saved to file or memory.
• Ability to choose the exact frame from where the still images are captured.
• Ability to use a preferred MPEG2 splitter when playing MPEG2 files.
• Select devices for playback. For example, select the sound card, if multiple sound cards are installed, to playback audio.
• Save player settings to files and streams. These settings can include the selected processors, flags, and controls.
• Time-based, frame-based or synchronized with a track bar positioning.
• Mark the start point and end point to play.
• Set infinite loop or a repeat count.
• Get content and tag information such as author, copyright, etc.
• Read and seek DV timecode data.

A few example applications that can take advantage of this functionality:

• Create Windows Media Player™ type applications capable of playing many formats such as AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, ISO (MP4, 3GPP, AAC, AVC1, MOV), XVID, ASF, WMV , WAV, WMA,  OGG, and more.
• Create YouTube™ type applications that can play streaming audio and video content.
• Create NetMeeting™ type video conferencing and text messaging applications.
• Display and annotate (markup) video files for presentation purposes.
• Create DVD player / navigation software.
• Create player software for music from a streaming audio hosting service.
• Create a player for video being streamed from UAVs through a UDP port.

Click here for LEADTOOLS Evals including Multimedia Capture.

Each of the following products include the above functionality

Pricing Structure

Product	Price	Purchase	Try
LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK	†$595		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS DVD Module	*$295		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS Video Streaming Module	*$295		Free Trial
LEADTOOLS MPEG-2 Transport Demultiplexer Module (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264 and AAC)	*$1995		Free Trial

†Hybrid License. License includes development seat, application license, unlimited internal deployment and up to 1000 commercial desk top deployments/5 commercial production server deployments per year. Annual and multi-year unlimited deployment licenses are available for commercial deployment. Please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative with any questions. Click here for more information on LEADTOOLS License Agreement.

* Deployment requires runtime license. Marked toolkits require runtime licensing based on the deployment of the application you develop. Several purchase options are available. For more information, please contact oemsales@leadtools.com or call a LEAD sales representative. Click here for more information on LEADTOOLS Runtime Licensing requirements.