Feature Description
LEADTOOLS includes everything developers need to implement multimedia playback, conversion, capture, streaming, and processing of many audio/video formats and compressions in their .NET (C# & VB) and C/C++ applications. Programmers can add leverage the power of DirectShow and Media Foundation without deep knowledge of either multimedia framework.
In addition to the codecs required to compress and decompress audio and video data, LEADTOOLS provides several multiplexers to combine and demultiplexers to split data streams from various container formats such as ISO (MP4), OGG, WebM (MKV), and FLV.
Play, Convert, and Save Any File or Stream Supported by the DirectShow or Media Foundation Frameworks, Including:
- Adobe Flash RTMP
- Adobe HD
- Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
- Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)
- AVCHD
- AVI
- DivX / Xvid
- DVD
- DVR
- DVSD
- Flash Version 6 (FLV H.263)
- Flash Version 9 (Flash HD or Flash H.264 or F4V or FLV H.264)
- ISO (MP4, QuickTime 2.0, MOV, AAC, 3GPP, HDP, AVC1)
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LTESC (LEADTOOLS Elementary Stream Catalog)
- An index file that contains all information necessary to merge split files back together when doing distributed transcoding
- Matroska (MKV, WebM)
- MPEG-1 Layer-3 Audio (MP3)
- MPEG-1 Video
- MPEG-2 Program
- MPEG-2 Transport
- MXF (Material eXchange Format)
- OGG
- SRT (Secondary format to hold subtitle text and timing data extracted from a video stream)
- SSF (Smooth Streaming Format)
- WAV
- WMV/WMA/ASF (Windows Media Format)
- Still image formats including TIFF, JPEG, BMP and JPEG 2000
- DICOM (uncompressed, Lossy JPEG, Lossless JPEG, Lossy JPEG 2000, Lossless JPEG 2000, MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-2 HD, H.264 HD)
LEADTOOLS Multiplexers and Demultiplexers
LEADTOOLS can utilize any DirectShow or Media Foundation multiplexer or demultiplexer registered on the system. For some of the most popular formats, LEADTOOLS includes several implementations that offer better performance, support, stability, and flexibility than pre-installed or freeware options.
- Flash/FLV
- ISO (MP4)
- MPEG-1
- MXF
- MPEG-2 Program
- MPEG-2 Transport
- MKV
- OGG
- Windows Media Reader
