For the sixth year in a row, LEAD Technologies has won an SD Times 100 award in recognition of its flagship SDK product line, LEADTOOLS. This year, LEADTOOLS won in the coveted APIs, Libraries & Frameworks category. We are proud to once again be a part of this prestigious group of companies through hard work and dedication to making LEADTOOLS the World Leader in Imaging SDKs.

Each year, the editors of Software Development Times seek to pinpoint companies and products who demonstrate innovation and leadership in several key categories driving the software development markets including APIs, Libraries & Frameworks, Big Data and Analytics, Database and Database management, Influencers, User Experience, and more. To see a list of all winners from all categories, read the original article from SD Times.

For the fourth consecutive time, LEAD Technologies has won an SD Times 100 award in recognition of its outstanding family of imaging toolkits, LEADTOOLS. This year, LEADTOOLS won in the coveted APIs, Libraries & Frameworks category. We are proud to once again be a part of this prestigious group of companies through hard work and dedication to making LEADTOOLS the World Leader in Imaging SDKs.

Each year, the editors of Software Development Times seek to pinpoint companies and products who demonstrate innovation and leadership in several key categories driving the software development markets including APIs, Libraries & Frameworks, Big Data, Database, Cloud, User Experience, and more. To see a list of all winners from all categories, read the original article from SD Times.

Today, we are pleased to announce several updates to our Multimedia SDKs. The majority focus on improvements to our support for Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) and Hardware Acceleration in our H.265 and H.264 codecs.

RTSP

• Added support for new formats
  • QuickTime
  • Windows Media Player
• Added support for KLV metadata in RTSP streams
• Added support for RTSP over TCP and HTTP servers
• Added new security handler
• Improved support for cameras, seeking, and AAC audio streaming
• Added new examples for RTSP Live Streaming
• Added stream bit rates to RTSP DESCRIBE response

Codecs, Multiplexers, and Demultiplexers

• Added support for QuickSync acceleration on 6th generation and later Intel Processors to H.265 encoder and H.265 decoder
• Added support for non-asynchronous modes when using CUDA hardware acceleration on H.265 and H.264 decoders
• Added ability to select the decoding engine in the H265 decoder
• Added support for decoding 10-bit video in H.265 decoder
• Added frame seeking to MKV demultiplexer

Additional Multimedia Updates

• Added feature to help break DVR recordings into smaller complete video fragments
• Added a new Microsoft Smooth Streaming source filter that allows playback, conversion, and streaming from Microsoft Smooth Streaming servers
• Added programmatic control over automatic poster frame scrubbing in play module
• Added support for P010 format to the LEAD Color Space Converter

This update is free to existing Version 19 customers and is available in the Multimedia Download Package.

You might already know from our monthly code tips newsletter or from personally working with our awesome technical support team (which is freely available to all customers and those evaluating LEADTOOLS as well), but all of our Developer Support Agents are programmers too! From time to time, we like to put their dev skills to work and let them express their creative sides. In honor of LEAD's 25th anniversary, we had a special series to show how easy it is to create a variety of applications with LEADTOOLS. That series had such positive feedback that we want to keep it going.

This year, we will be showcasing a great set of features including OCR, Barcode, Forms, Annotations, Java, Multimedia Capture, DVR, and more. The apps created by our Support Agents in this Developer App Series are intended to be larger, more thoughtful apps with highly practical purposes in mind, as opposed to a basic "how to" for a feature. The programmer-friendliness of LEADTOOLS shines through in these apps and could be a genuine foundation for your next imaging development project.

This post is part of our 2017 Developer App Series, which showcases apps created by our Support Agents over the course of eight weeks. These apps are intended to be larger, more thoughtful apps with highly practical purposes in mind, as opposed to a basic "how to" for a feature.

App Description

This app uses the LEADTOOLS Barcode Engine alongside the LEADTOOLS Image Processing SDK to concurrently run different image processing algorithms in a multithreaded environment on a barcode image until the barcode can be found in one thread and cancel the others. This will help decode barcodes on particularly difficult images by doing 5 sets of image processing commands at the same time that are each optimized to find barcodes on commonly difficult images.