Media Streaming Files You Must Include With Your Application

The installation procedure creates a directory tree for the LEADTOOLS files, and adds the demonstration programs and online help to your desktop. You specify the root directory during installation. The following subdirectories for the Multimedia Media Streaming features are created:

Notes:

• LEADTOOLS Media Streaming redistributable files are all COM-based, unless otherwise specified, and must be registered by your installation procedure.
• Some Media Streaming features are provided for evaluation purposes only. You may not copy, redistribute or deploy in production any of the following files without obtaining the proper license. In some cases, the license is included with your initial purchase of LEADTOOLS Media Streaming SDK. In other cases, you must obtain a license from LEAD by entering into a Duplication and Distribution License. See Licensing. For these special licensing situations, see the notes below accompanying the specific file.
• Certain standards-based technology may require patent licenses from third party patent holders. The license provided by LEAD does not include any third party patent licenses, and it is your responsibility to acquire any third party licenses that are required. In certain cases where LEAD is aware of the existence of third party patents covering a standard, LEAD has acquired a patent license that covers the LEADTOOLS SDK, but we do not have the right to sublicense the patents. Where LEAD has acquired a patent license for a specific technology, the contact information for the patent holder/agent is supplied in the following table. LEAD makes no representations or warranties whatsoever to the effect that the patent holders mentioned constitute all persons holding patents covering the standards-based technology that is included in the Software. LEAD encourages its customers to conduct their own due diligence regarding the potential for third party patents on any features that are being incorporated into the application
• You may not distribute the header files with your application, and you may not provide software development capabilities in your application.

• To unlock the LEADTOOLS Streaming features (LTMS), you need to unlock the following module:

  • Media Streaming

  The Media Streaming module will automatically use DSKernel2.dll to unlock any other required Multimedia redistributable (for example, LMISODmx.dll, LMFLVDmx.dll). So you just need to redistribute DSKernel2.dll, LMISODmx.dll, LMFLVDmx.dll and set the runtime license properly as described in Setting the Runtime license.

• The Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes changes to Microsoft Edge that affect how Flash content is displayed. If you are enabling Flash with the LEADTOOLS Media Server and testing on Microsoft Edge, refer to Windows 10 Update Effects On Edge.

The following table summarizes the files you must include on your distribution media to support the LEADTOOLS Media Streaming features functions on a WIN32 system.

• The (Bin\CDLL) & (Bin\DotNet4\) folders contain the files you are licensed to use with the LEADTOOLS Media Streaming SDK.
• The Bin\CDLL folders contain the files common to LEADTOOLS Multimedia and LEADTOOLS Media Streaming SDK. Currently, all the files listed in the table below with the exception of LTMS are contained in Bin\CDLL.

Additional files may be required, depending on the types of live streaming that are to be implemented, as follows:

In order to restream from any live source, the following files are needed. These files are located in the (Bin\CDLL) & (Bin\DotNet4\) folders.

In order to restream from sources that contain files of particular video or audio compressions, the following additional files are needed. These files are located in the (Bin\CDLL) & (Bin\DotNet4\) folders.

In order to restream RTP/UDP/TCP streams, the following additional files are needed. These files are located in the (Bin\CDLL) folders.

In order to restream RTSP/ONVIF streams, the following files are needed. These files are located in the Bin\CDLL folders.

For more information on how to set a license, see Setting a Runtime License.

For step-by-step instructions on how to deploy the media server to another computer, refer to Deploying Your Media Server.

* For more information on the evaluation mechanism and the DSKernel object, refer to the Evaluation Mechanism Overview and the LMDSKernel2 Object.

*** It is best to install the x64 runtime in the %windir%\SYSWOW64 folder instead of the %windir%\System32 folder because some development environments (like VS8) will not import references that are placed in the %windir%\System32 folder since that is a 32-bit application.

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