The Official Medialooks Blog (Page 6)

MFormats SDK as a replacement for DirectShow

Its been a while since we’ve released MFormats SDK, our flexible video development framework and codec library. We currently have customers, who’ve built their solutions on top of MFormats from scratch, there are others, who’ve successfully migrated their applications from DirectShow. You can read about some of

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Our progress with MFormats SDK

The number of companies who have licensed MFormats SDK has more than doubled since last September. I thought it was the right time to review our progress and share the experience of some of our committed users. If you haven’t been following our newsletters, MFormats is a frame-based video

Press Release

Medialooks adds support for I/O manufacturer DekTec

Broadcast Asia 2016, Singapore — June 1, 2016 — Medialooks today announced official support for Dutch I/O hardware manufacturer DekTec. DekTec has been providing broadcast customers with PCI cards, USB devices, network appliances and software for more than 15 years. The company’s hardware is designed for professional 24/7 applications

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Medialooks adds support for I/O manufacturer Magewell

Broadcast Asia 2016, Singapore — May 31, 2016 — Medialooks today announced official support for Chinese I/O manufacturer Magewell. Since being founded in 2011, Magewell has released a series of PCIe capture cards, including SDI, HDMI and DVI models, several USB capture boxes and capture dongles. Magewell supports Windows, Linux and

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Medialooks adds playout support for Stream Labs cards

NAB 2016, Las Vegas, United States — April 18, 2016 — Medialooks today announced official support for two new boards by hardware manufacturer Stream Labs: the Alpha HD and the MSP2. This is the first time Stream Labs boards are supported for output (previously only ingest was supported via the popular MH4LM)

Blackmagic Design

DeckLink Quad 2: quick test and first impressions

The original DeckLink Quad was announced in 2011 at NAB as “4 separate DeckLink capture cards” that plug into just one PCIe slot. Four years later, at IBC 2015, Blackmagic Design announced Quad 2 — a “capture and playback solution that puts the power of 8 DeckLink cards onto a single

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Medialooks adds NewTek NDI support to MFormats SDK

CABSAT 2016, Dubai, United Arab Emirates — March 8, 2016 — Medialooks, maker of professional software development kits for the broadcast and digital signage markets, today announced an MFormats SDK version with support for NewTek’s Network Device Interface (NDI™) protocol, an open standard for live IP workflows over Ethernet networks. NDI

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Medialooks brings WebRTC to the professional video market

ISE 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands — February 9, 2016 — Medialooks today announced that several WebRTC-based use cases are now available in its broadcast application development framework, MPlatform SDK. WebRTC is a new adaptive bit rate streaming technology that is gaining compatibility with most web browsers and handheld devices. “We see reason to

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WebRTC in a native desktop Windows application

WebRTC has a number of awesome features—such as ultra-low latency, adaptive bitrate, instant peer connectivity and encryption. It is supported by virtually all browsers, both on desktop and mobile. With our video SDK, WebRTC can be easily used to remotely control native Windows applications—which is exactly what Broadcast

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An overview of WebRTC

WebRTC is a relatively new streaming technology that provides a scalable low-latency way of transmitting audio, video and data between browsers, desktop applications and mobile devices. Here’s a few thoughts about the technology itself for your consideration. Main benefits * WebRTC is designed to be web-native for browsers. Today, if

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Medialooks adds integration with Bluefish444

Amsterdam, Netherlands — September 11, 2015 — Medialooks today announced a new version of MFormats SDK with support for capture and playout boards by Australian company Bluefish444 (booth 7.J07 at IBC2015), a manufacturer of uncompressed SDI video I/O cards used in professional applications within the broadcast and post production industries.

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MFormats SDK as a game recording library for developers

The addition of GPU-powered H.264 encoding via Nvidia’s NVENC and Intel’s Quick Sync has opened up a new market for Medialooks’ MFormats SDK. There are at least two SDKs available on the market that claim to solve this problem: Bandisoft Capture Library and liteCam Game SDK. Bandisoft’

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Choosing the right video SDK: MPlatform vs. MFormats

MPlatform SDK and MFormats SDK are both great software toolkits for video software development. However, they target different customer segments and are far from being similar. This post will help you understand both products and decide which one is best for your project. First, let’s compare the two products

Our value proposition to hardware manufacturers

Hardware vendors are an important part of our business model. We trust that our vendors will provide reliable and cost-effective capture and playout solutions to our customers. Without vendors our products and expertise would not appeal to specific customer segments. This post explains what we’d like to do for

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Medialooks announces MFormats SDK, a new multimedia API for Windows developers

Amsterdam, Netherlands — September 12, 2014 — Medialooks today announced the first beta release of MFormats SDK, the company’s new video API for Windows developers. MFormats SDK is an intuitively simple software development kit for high-level software developers working in C#, VB.NET and Delphi. The key benefits for the customer

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MFormats SDK: a new audio/video API for Windows developers

MFormats SDK is our low-level API for the multimedia developer. We believe it fits all kinds of generic or specialised audio and video tasks in areas like broadcasting, security, medicine, sports, education, design, etc. About MFormats SDK MFormats is a full-featured replacement for Gstreamer, DirectShow and Media Foundation — both are,

Blackmagic Design

UltraStudio 4K review

Blackmagic Design announced the first UltraStudio 4K model at IBC in 2012. In October 2013 they released an upgraded version, claiming it to be “the world’s first video solution to include super-fast Thunderbolt 2 technology”. In September 2013 (released to the public in February 2014) the company released an

Nacsport customer story

Alberto Rodríguez González is the founder and lead video developer of Nacsport — a company that makes sports performance analysis software. I reached out for some feedback on the Multi-Format Source filter, that they had licensed recently, but we lost focus and talked about all sorts of things. Nacsport, founded about

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Deyan Automation customer story

I first met Dejan Sekan during a workshop we held in Cyprus in 2011. Customers? In Limassol? I thought there were only tourists, most of them Russian. Nevertheless we met in a real office, in a nice conference room. Deyan Automation has been serving broadcast clients worldwide since 2003. I