DeckLink SDK
Ingest/capture from DeckLink boards, basic playout to DeckLink and print to tape, text & graphics overlay.
Overview
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No DirectShow expertise required. Supported development environments: .NET (C#, Visual Basic), VB6, Delphi, Visual C++, C++Builder. For more information about the framework, please see: Multimedia Component Framework Overview.
Who Is This Product For?
- Developers: create professional applications, brand them with your name a logo, distribute to customers.
- Broadcast engineers: make minor customizations and deploy in your environment.
Featues & Comparison Chart
| Playout Features | DeckLink SDK | Playout SDK | Capture SDK | Multimedia SDK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powerful gapless multi-format, multi-compression playout engine | √ | √ | √ | |
| Playout to DeckLink boards | √ | √ | √ | |
| Playout to Bluefish444 and AJA boards | √ | √ | ||
| External/internal keying on DeckLink boards | √ | √ | √ | |
| External/internal keying on BlueFish444 boards | √ | √ | ||
| Simultaneous playout to more than one device | √ | √ | √ | |
| Stream to Windows Media Services/Silverlight | √ | √ | √ | |
| Stream via Flash Media Encoder, ON2 Flix, Real Producer and other applications | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Define playout ranges (cue in/cue out) for each media file on playlist | √ | √ | √ | |
| Edit playlist during playback | √ | √ | √ | |
| Live sources as playlist items | √ | √ | ||
| Background video file, feed or image | √ | √ | ||
| Preview independent from capture, playout and streaming | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Adjust gain, brightness, contrast, black level, whilte level, YUV components separately for each file on playlist | √ | √ | √ | |
| Adjust audio level | √ | √ | √ | |
| Output or file capture in different formats (via built-in video scaling and audio resampling) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Broadcast quality automated crawl line support | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Text overlay with multi-language support | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| BMP, JPEG, GIF, TGA and PNG image overlay | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Overlay vector-based Flash animation with transparency | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Built-in audio/video synchronization | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Interlaced video support | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| Play and convert files to multiple formats (transcoding feature) | √ | |||
| Time-shifted playout | √ | |||
| Ingest/Capture Features | DeckLink SDK | Playout SDK | Capture SDK | Multimedia SDK |
| Capture/ingest from DeckLink boards | √ | √ | √ | |
| Capture/ingest from Bluefish444 and AJA boards | √ | √ | ||
| Capture/ingest from DV/HDV sources, web cameras, TV tuners, etc. | √ | √ | ||
| External device control via RS-422 interface | √ | √ | √ | |
| Seamless switching between receivers (without black flash or delay) | √ | √ | √ | |
| Automatically split files by size or duration (without frame loss) | √ | √ | ||
| Capture to overlapping files | √ | √ | ||
| Event-based capturing (time-shifted capturing) | √ | |||
| Playout Formats | DeckLink SDK | Playout SDK | Capture SDK | Multimedia SDK |
| RTSP, MMS & HTTP Windows Media streams (WMV/ASF media) | √ | √ | √ | |
| Windows Media (.WMV files) | √ | √ | √ | |
| QuickTime media (.MOV and .MP4 files) | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| Flash animation (.SWF), Flash Video (.FLV) and RTMP streams | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| MXF | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| DV and DVCPRO HD | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| MPEG-2 | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| MPEG-4 | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| MP3, AC-3 and AAC audio | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| Capture Formats | DeckLink SDK | Playout SDK | Capture SDK | Multimedia SDK |
| Windows Media | √ | √ | √ | |
| .AVI files | √ | √ | √ | |
| DV and DVCPRO HD | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| MPEG-2 | Optional | Optional | Optional |
See Also
Downloads
For more information on the release history please see: Multimedia SDK: Release Notes.External Links
Licensing
Lifetime license. No royalties. The license grants the right to use the SDK to create an unlimited number of applications and deploy or distribute these applications without any limitations. Single Developer and Team licenses are available. One year of support and updates is included in the license fee.
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