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 and logo, distribute to customers.
- Broadcast engineers: make minor customizations and deploy in your environment.
Features & 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) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| CG Basic: multi-language text, graphics and image overlays | √ | √ | √ | √ |
| CG Pro: advanced support for news tickers (crawls and rolls) | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| CG Flash: 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 | |
| M-JPEG | Optional | Optional | Optional | |
| H.264/AVC | 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 | |
| M-JPEG | Optional | Optional | Optional |
See Also
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For more information on the release history please see: Multimedia SDK: Release Notes.External Links
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