This is our first GPU-accelerated product release. With this latest update customers of Vision Mixer SDK and Virtual Studio SDK will experience the following benefits: – Dramatically improved performance and quality of 3D projections. – Dramatically improved performance and quality of chroma keying (Virtual Studio SDK only). – The ability to change view angles (i.e. [...]

Earlier this year, we have replaced DeckLink SDK, Playout SDK and Multimedia SDK with a new product: the Broadcast Automation Platform. In addition to the classic gapless multi-format playout to Blackmagic and other boards, the new product offers several new features and some licensing improvements. Such as: 1) The new Automation module: advanced playlists, clip [...]

The MXF Splitter we offered earlier is officially out of date. Now we have a better solution: the MXF Reader. Instead of being just a demultiplexer, the MXF Reader is also a file reader, which positions it as source filter in a DirectShow graph and allows it to support MXF playlists. The MXF Reader runs [...]

Here’s what you’ll get with the new release of our powerful Character Generator product: – Tables to display real-time statistics like sports data and stocks. – RSS feeds as sources of ticker content. – Linked items for tickers: show a related item together with a crawl. – XML support to describe complex items’ design and [...]

Our CG engine is now available as an easy-to-use rapid development toolkit that requires no DirectShow skills and almost no programming for some of the popular use cases. This product is the easiest way to turn a PC into a broadcast-quality character generator with the help of just one Blackmagic board with keying support. Or, [...]

We have released a new product: our own, standard-compliant H.264/AVC Video Decoder DirectShow Filter. The decoder supports Baseline, Main, Extended and High profiles of the H.264/AVC specification and makes use of multi-core architectures and Hyper-Threading. The decoder can be licensed in two versions: as a separate DirectShow filter or as an add-on to our broadcast [...]

We have just released our latest product, the Character Generator DirectShow Filter – our new solution for multi-layered titling and overlays, which is to replace the previously available Text & Graphics Overlay and Flash Overlay DirectShow filters. The new filter is a single component that supports all overlay item types – text, graphics, images and [...]

MediaLooks DICOM Reader DirectShow Filter was developed for the needs of medical application developers and is required for DICOM MPEG-2 media files playback. DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) is a file format standard commonly used in medical imaging. MPEG-2 DICOM format is approved for use in Endoscopy, Microscopy and Surgery. To enable MPEG-2 [...]

Our M-JPEG Decoder and M-JPEG Encoder are available for evaluation download from our web site. A key feature of the two products is ARGB32 (alpha channel) support – something our customers have been requesting from us. The codecs can be licensed either separately or in a bundle. Motion JPEG is a popular capture format, often [...]

We have finally completed adding support for BlueFish444 boards to our SDKs. Currently this affects Multimedia SDK, Playout SDK and Capture SDK. Vision Mixer SDK and Virtual Studio SDK will be updated soon. We are impressed with the quality of BlueFish boards and their features. Some of them are: – Dual stream support. The boards [...]

If you have a camera or capture card, you cannot use it in more than one application at the same time, and there is no standard Windows option that makes it possible. MediaLooks Virtual Device Splitter splits a single input stream, such as from a capture board or camera, into several steams and presents each [...]

An audio decoder filter is now available for download at the MediaLooks web site. The filter is based on ISO/IEC and ATSC standards and supports the following audio codecs: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 (MP1), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (MP2), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), AC-3 and AAC. MPEG-2 audio extensions are also supported. All decoders [...]

Blackmagic Design Inc. has recently announced DeckLink SDI and Decklink Studio, new models of capture cards specifically designed as a replacement for standard definition cards, but with increased analog connectivity for wide compatibility with older analog equipment as well as SD and HD-SDI for the latest digital equipment. MediaLooks historically provides support for DeckLink video [...]

We have released a new completely rewritten version of our Time Shifting Engine (TSE) – a development component that buffers an audio/video stream to the hard drive and enables an application to play, pause and seek within the buffered data with the ability to switch between the time-shifted video and the live stream seamlessly. Any [...]

There are 3 things that make Flash perfect for overlay over a video stream. First, the vector-based format can be scaled to HD resolutions without quality loss. Second, Flash has built-in alpha, that allows us to use high quality transparency effects. Lastly, Flash can be used to display dynamic content such as news, weather or [...]