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LEADTOOLS Multimedia API Help

DV stands for Digital Video and has been defined in "Specification of Consumer-use Digital VCRs" (aka the Blue Book).

Multimedia Playback

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The LEADTOOLS Multimedia product line incorporates DirectShow playback functionality into API DLLs making it easy to use in non-C compilers that support them.

For full details on LEADTOOLS Multimedia Playback functions, refer to IltmmPlay topics under Multimedia Function References..

Multimedia Playback functionality includes:

image\sqrblit.gif Save still bitmaps with control over format and quality.

image\sqrblit.gif Save player settings to files and streams - settings include processors, flags and controls.

image\sqrblit.gif Support for DVD navigation.

image\sqrblit.gif Ability to use a preferred MPEG2 splitter when playing MPEG2 files.

image\sqrblit.gif Ability to choose the place from where the still images are captured.

image\sqrblit.gif Ability to play all formats supported by DirectShow.

image\sqrblit.gif Select devices for playback. For example, select the sound card, if multiple sound cards are installed, to playback audio.

image\sqrblit.gif Time-based, frame-based or synchronized with a track bar positioning.

image\sqrblit.gif Read and seek DV timecode data.

image\sqrblit.gif Mark the start point and end point to play.

image\sqrblit.gif Set infinite loop or a repeat count.

image\sqrblit.gif Get content information such as author, copyright, etc.

image\sqrblit.gif Support for any DirectShow video and DirectShow audio processing filters.

image\sqrblit.gif Support for zooming the video during playback: Fit to window, stretch, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, and full screen video options.

image\sqrblit.gif Play streaming music and video from memory.

image\sqrblit.gif Grab the current frame from the screen.

image\sqrblit.gif Control the playback speed (2x, 3x, 4x, 1/2x, 1/3x, 1/4x)

Examples of applications that take advantage of the above functionality:

image\sqrblit.gif Player software for music from a streaming audio hosting service.

image\sqrblit.gif Player software for movies from a streaming video hosting service.

image\sqrblit.gif Player software for streaming audio and video.

image\sqrblit.gif Player software for AVI, MP3, MPEG, WMA, etc files.

image\sqrblit.gif Windows media player like applications.

image\sqrblit.gif Video conferencing - when used with capture, playback the samples sent over the network.

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