Multimedia Filters and Codecs Licensing - General

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK is distributed with a variety of DirectShow filters, video codecs and audio codecs that may be used for manipulating and compressing audio or video data. Certain filters and codecs may be included with your end user application and be distributed internally to single user computers without additional deployment license fees in accordance with the license agreement governing LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK (see Hybrid License Type).

Certain filters and codecs require deployment licenses in order to be included and deployed with your end user application regardless of whether the deployment is internal or commercial. In addition, LEAD has bundled certain of these filters and codecs requiring additional deployment licenses together and included them with the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Suite SDK as well as the LEADTOOLS DVD Module, the LEADTOOLS Video Streaming Module and the LEADTOOLS MPEG2 Transport Module, which are add-ons to LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.

Note that any deployment of your end user software to a server or multiuser machine (such as a kiosk) requires additional deployment license fees.

Evaluation versions of the filters and codecs are included with the LEADTOOLS Multimedia setup. To unlock the evaluation versions of these filters and codecs, you must complete the Deployment License Application form, which may be found in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Help File under the topic "LEAD Licensing", and procure any necessary deployment licenses.

The license to use LEADTOOLS Multimedia without any of the filters and codecs is governed by the LEADTOOLS License Agreement ("Hybrid License") and does not require deployment licensing. The LEADTOOLS Software License Agreement (EULA) can be found in the Licensing Help File in the Software Developer Kit and Add-On Licensing book.