VisioForge Media Player SDK (ActiveX Version)

One of the most popular category of multimedia applications consists of video player tools which constitutes a large part of modern multimedia entertainment. Today, we have thousands of video player applications available with refined interface and ease of use. A successful application must entail capability to play videos of a large number of formats and these videos can be on a CD, DVD, portable media or local hard disk. Thus, the player should have capability to access and play these files directly from the program without ever navigating to the source. VisioForge Media Player SDK (ActiveX Version) v.3.2 is a component which can be integrated into your applications to impart such a functionality in your applications.

VisioForge Media Player SDK (ActiveX Version) v.3.2 is a software development kit that allows developers to integrate audio/video media play capabilities to your applications. The program also allows the user to draw an overlay bitmap into the video and put text labels over it along with various effects. Some of the output video formats supported in the program are 3GP, MPEG 4, MOV, WMV, AVI and many other video formats with the availability of the corresponding decoder. If some videos are hosted over the network in WMV or MMS format, these can be directly played locally through this player. To enhance the audio effects during the video play, you can make use of its powerful audio related functionalities such as graphic equalizer, volume booster and 3D bass system. You can also capture screenshots of certain frames from the video with this component. Many a times, video files come with a separate subtitle file which flash along with the video, this component has full capability of playing and synchronizing the subtitle file along with the video.

VisioForge Media Player SDK (ActiveX Version) v.3.2 is overall, a nice application which allows you to directly integrate the video playback functionality into your applications, leading it to score four and a half rating points on the scale of five.

VisioForge Media Player SDK allows programmers to easily integrate video, audio and DVD playback into their software applications. It also allows you to draw overlay bitmap and text over the video with effects.
VisioForge Media Player SDK major features include:
Supported file formats
- video formats - AVI, MPEG-1/2, WMV, 3GP, QuickTime MOV, MPEG-4/H264 (AVC), any other if you have corresponding decoder
- audio formats - WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, any other if you have corresponding decoder
- DVD
- MMS / WMV network streams support
Video processing and effects
- image and graphic overlays
- text overlay
- video transparency
- brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, etc.
- inverted colors
- greyscale
- more than 30 other effects
Chroma-key
Motion detection
Audio processing and effects
- volume booster
- equalizer
- 3D-bass system
File playback from the memory
Multiply output screens support
Frame capture to TBitmap/HBITMAP in Delphi/ActiveX, BMP/JPEG/GIF/PNG files
OSD (On-Screen Display)
Audio streams from additional audio/video files
Subtitles support