Multimedia Filters and Codecs Licensing - General

LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK is distributed with a variety of DirectShow Ò 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 without runtime licenses in accordance with the license agreement governing LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK (see Hybrid License). Release versions of these filters and codecs are included with the LEADTOOLS Multimedia setup.

Certain filters and codecs require runtime licenses in order to be included and deployed with your end user application. Evaluation versions of these filters and codecs are included with the LEADTOOLS Multimedia setup. In addition, LEAD has bundled certain of these filters and codecs requiring runtime licenses together and included with the LEADTOOLS DVD Module, the LEADTOOLS DVR Module, the LEADTOOLS Video Streaming Module and the LEADTOOLS MPEG2 Transport Module, which are add-ons to LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK.

To unlock the evaluation versions of these filters and codecs requiring runtime licensing, you must complete the Duplication and Distribution License, the terms of which are covered in detail in the LEADTOOLS Multimedia Help File under the topic "LEAD Licensing".