Our DV Decoder is now out of beta. The DirectShow filter supports anything from DV to DVCPRO HD and is capable of using up to 8 CPUs for decoding. The decoder will be part of the upcoming DV/DVCPRO HD SDK, featuring a DV Splitter, an MXF Demultiplexer and a DV Encoder. The new SDK is [...]

It seems that Silverlight, a new web streaming technology from Microsoft, will finally allow us to provide customers with video solutions for the web – something that was not really possible with just Windows Media. Basically, with Silverlight we can build YouTube-like web sites hosted both on Linux and Windows, and viewable on both Windows [...]

We are now demoing our DeckLink SDK – a set of components for creating applications that are using DeckLink SD & HD boards from Blackmagic Design. The components that are part of the new SDK have been around for a while, their design is now pretty much settled, also the quality is pretty good – [...]

Our Playout component, previously in beta, has now been released. Basically, the Playout is the implementation of our MultiGraph Technology for seamless file playback. The component is now also available as a standard DirectShow filter (see Playlist Source). The key feature of the technology is the ability to switch files without a delay or black [...]

Our QuickTime Source has improved playback performance for HD movies up to 35%. The average time for decoding a frame of an HD 1920×1080 30p dropped down from 46 ms to 29 ms. Download link is available on the wiki page.

NAT Expo to take place in Moscow on 19-22 November, 2007. I guess it is not as hot as IBC – but might be interesting if you are targeting the Russian market.

Beta of our new DV Splitter DirectShow filter is now available for download. In addition to DV25, the splitter supports DV50 and DV100 formats.

A new feature of the QuickTime DirectShow Source filter is support for multichannel 32-bit audio output. Other changes include minor fixes and a fixed bug with first sample time after seeking. See also: previous updates.

We’ve updated our QuickTime filter to support frame accurate seeking. Also, we’ve added integration support for Windows Media Player 11. Previously, when scanning for media files, WMP would put MOV and MP4 files into the “Other” category of its “Library”. We’ve added routines to the filter’s registration procedure to make WMP treat QuickTime media similarly [...]

A new component that has been in development for several weeks will soon be available for evaluation and beta-testing. MediaLooks Audio Mixer (DirectShow filter) will handle N stereo or mono input pins, M stereo or mono output pins and will be supplied with a handful of features for managing audio streams in your DirectShow application. [...]

New version of the QuickTime Source DirectShow filter is available for download (1.4.3.6). The following changes have been made: – real-time playback of HD H.264 movies – added URL/streaming support – fixed problem with viewing some of the files (we found this bug when viewing the famous 1968 Douglas Engelbart video) – added option for [...]

MediaLooks joins Inforus Consortium, one of Russia’s leading coalitions of software development firms. Inforus, founded in 2001, currently unites almost 80 leading Russia’s IT companies in their marketing efforts on the global IT market.

The Independent Software Developers Forum will take place for the fifth time on October 5-8 in Moscow. MediaLooks will be attending the conference and would be happy to meet with you there! Please email us if you are also attending.

The major changes are: 1. Added support for MS Visual Studio .NET (2003) based on customer requests. 2. Added 6 new wizards for Visual Studio .NET (2003) for creating Source, Trans, Render, MultiSource, MultiTrans and MultiRender filters. 3. Enhanced classes and functions.

Rhapzode, a PowerPoint enhancement product from Alta Vente, UK will now support QuickTime as one of the media formats that can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation. The DirectShow component was developed by MediaLooks as part of a custom project and was based on the MediaLooks QuickTime DirectShow Source filter.