VideoLab VCL 4.0

VideoLab VCL 4.0 is a clever application making your active life easier and more attractive. Delphi/C++ Builder VCL OpenWire components for fast video processing. Allows fast complex video manipulations with zero lines of program code. The library supports the old fashion Win32 API( Video For Windows ( VFW ), VCM, WaveAPI, ACM), the newer DirectShow, DMO, the free FreeFrame and even allows if needed any mixture of them. The developer can choose to go with any of them, to use all, or can switch from the one to the other at any moment. The components hide the complexity of all of the approaches, and make them look almost identical from the users prospective. Includes: Video Players and Loggers ( Win32 and DicerctX/DirectShow ) Video/Audio Capture and Video/Audio Output ( Win32 and DicerctX/DirectShow ) Filters, Geometric transformations Video Mixers Histogram Direct Media Objects (DMO) Video Compressors/De compressors FreeFrame Custom filters Scope and Waterfall components.
Free for non-commercial use.

Major Features:

1. Video For Windows(VFW) components:

• AVI Player
• Video Capture Component
• AVI Logger
  

2.DirectShow components:

• DirectShow Video Player
• DirectShow Video Capture Component
• DirectShow Video Logger
• DirectShow image display
• DirectShow Preview Dock
• Sends video to external device such as Camcorder, VCR, External TV Set or Monitor
• Stores Video Files in Advanced Systems Format(ASF and WMV) using Windows Media Encoding
• New: Plays ASF and WMV Video Files.
• Video compressor 
• New: Video decompressor
• New: Broadcasts Advanced Systems Format(ASF and WMV) streams over Internet using Windows Media Encoding.
  

3. Compression components:

• Video compressor
• Video decompressor
  

4. Native Image generators:

• Image Generator
• Jaehne Generator
  

5. Noise generators:

• Uniform noise generator
• Gauss noise generator
  

6. Geometric transformations:

• Resize image
• Rotate Image
• Mirror Image
• Shear Image
• VLWarp 
• Warp Image
• Crops image
• New: Applies FishEye effect over the image.
• New: Applies Swirl effect over the image.
• New: Applies Cylinder effect over the image.
  

7. Effects:

• New: Applies fire effect over the frames, or generates frames with fire.
• New: Applies water ripple effect over the frames, or generates frames with water ripple.
  

8. Native filters:

• Box Filters - Average, Min, Max, Median
• Fixed Filters - PrewittHoriz, PrewittVert, SobelHoriz, SobelVert, RobertsDown, RobertsUp, Laplace, Gauss, Hipass, Lowpass, Sharpen, MedianCross, MedianColor
• Wiener Filter
  
• Morph Filter - Erode, Dilate
• Frame change filter
• New: Applies custom rectangle kernel filter over the image.
  

9. Native visualization:

• Native Image Display.
  

10. Converters and color filters:

• Convert to Gray Scale
• Splits to Red Green and Blue components
• Merges red, green and blue components into a frame.
• Splits the video frame by colors, and converts each color frame to real buffer(s).
• Converts real buffer(s) to monochrome video frame
• Changes the frame rate of the video stream.
• Color twist.
• Gamma corrections.
• Image adjust. - Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Lightness
• Changes pixel values depending on whether they are less or greater than the specified threshold
• Equalizes the image histogram
• New: Changes the pixel colors based on a lookup table.
• New: Applies an Alpha channel over the image.

11. Transparency:

• Applies bitmap mask
• Alpha blending transparency component
  

12. Mixers:

• Combine
• Mixes multiple video channels.
  

13. Direct Media Objects (DMO):

• DMO Effect Filter
  

14. Plug In filters:

• Applies a FreeFrame filter or effect.
• New: Applies a VirtualDub filter or effect.
  

15. Custom User Filters and Generators:

• Generic filter
• New: Generic generator
  

16. Other:

• Multi channel queued switch
• Delays the video by a number of frames.
• Takes a snapshot of the video and sends the image to the component output.
• Implements frame buffer queue.
• Enables or disables the video to go trough.
• New: Applies(draws) graphical layers over the video frames.
  

17. Image analysis:

• Computes the intensity histogram for each channel of the image using equal bins in different color spaces. (RGB, YUV etc.)
• Calculates the hue vector in different color spaces. (RGB, YUV etc.)
  

18. The following PlotLab components are included:

• Plot type scope component
• Waterfall component
  

19. The following AudioLab components are included:

• Generic Audio filter
• New: Generic Audio generator
• Converts Audio To Real
• Outputs audio data via audio output device such as Speakers, Line Out, or Modem using Win32 API
• Outputs audio data via audio output device such as Speakers, Line Out, or Modem using DirectShow
  

20. The following TimingLab component are included:

• New: Provides clock for other components.
• New: Implements a Watch Dog Timer.
• New: Allows other threads to generate main thread notifications.
  

21. The following SignalLab component are included:

• Generic Real filter
• New: Generic Real generator
• Generic Binary Filter
• New: Generic Binary generator
• New: Pairs multiple data buffers together.
• New: Changes the output range of the signal.
• New: Detects levels in the input signal.
  

22. For more information:

• About VideoLab.
• What’s new in the latest Version.
• Screen Shots of some of the demos.
• Step by step online VideoLab tutorials.
• Answers of Frequently Asked Questions.
• Download a fully functional version of VideoLab.
• Download Online Documentation.
• How to Order.
  

 Requirements: Delphi or C++ Builder