Bill’s two cents: This product looks really good. I have talked to the people at DataStead, they are prompt, knowledgeable and offer lots of technical advice. If you have an unusual development planned, they will help you out to get a workable solution.
If you have a number of digital video developments planned for this year consider this product. The fact that these tools help connect to many types of digital video cameras, has a built in media player, has image processing facility, works on a wide range of Windows operating systems and takes the main MS software development tools out there, says a lot for along term use for this product. Oh, did I mention distribution of any product developed with these tools is royalty free.
DataStead TVideoGrabber SDK $695US
(Exchange rates may fluctuate)
TVideoGrabber is an easy to develop video capture and media player SDK.
TVideoGrabber captures analog or digital video sources like Firewire (IEEE1394) cameras, DV camcorders, IP cameras, USB web cams, TV cards, PCI composite cards, USB devices, and plays video clips with frame capture, live video streaming and audio broadcasting capabilities.
The major features include:
- recording (AVI, ASF, WAV, MP3 and MPEG2 (e.g. with Hauppauge PVR, Plextor ConvertX…),
- audio/video compression on-the-fly or after recording,
- direct network streaming,
- network streaming to a publishing point,
- re-encoding of video clips,
- powerful media player with playlist,
- audio VU-meters,
- Send to DV (Print to DV) DV timecode,
- DV date/time,
- DV camcorder control,
- motion detection, frame capture, text and graphics overlays,
- TV tuning,
- videos built from set of images,
- screen recording,
- video cards with multiplexed video inputs,
- de-interlacing, video rotation, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, dual display and more.
The license includes 2 years upgrades and support.
For more detailed information on this SDK please see TVideoGrabber SDK here.
This DataStead product is sold through Plimus.
