Video Capture SDK (Delphi / ActiveX)

v10.0
VisioForge Video Capture SDK (Delphi / ActiveX) allows programmers to easily integrate video capturing and processing capabilities into their software applications. SDK can play and capture video and audio streams from TV tuners, USB capture devices, DV camcorders, PCI capture cards, and IP cameras.
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VisioForge Video Capture SDK (Delphi / ActiveX) major features include:

  • Preview
  • Video capture to
    • AVI (using audio/video codecs like MJPEG, DivX, XviD, x264)
    • WMV (support of custom WMV profiles. You can configure streams to use variable bit rate encoding (VBR), uncompressed audio or video stream, video size, buffer size, frame rate, etc.)
    • DV and MPEG from DV/HDV Camcorders and TV Tuners with internal MPEG Encoder (DirectCapture technology)
    • DV (from any video capture device)
    • MPEG-1/2/4 (including VCD/SVCD/DVD profiles) and FLV using FFMPEG wrapper
    • WebM
    • MP4 H264 / AAC
    • custom output formats (using 3rd-party DirectShow filters)
  • Audio capture to
    • WAV (compressed or PCM)
    • WMA (Windows Media Audio)
    • MP3 (using LAME)
  • Frame capture to TBitmap class, HBITMAP Win32 handle or BMP, JPEG, and PNG files
  • Video processing and effects
    • graphic overlay
    • text overlay
    • video transparency
    • brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, etc.
    • deinterlace
    • denoise
    • pan / zoom
    • resize to any resolution
    • chroma-key
    • 3-rd party DirectShow filters support
  • Audio processing and effects
    • volume booster
    • equalizer
    • 3D-bass system
  • TV Tuning
    • TV channels selecting
    • video formats selecting
    • input selection (TV-Tuner, FM-Tuner, S-Video, etc.)
    • TV frequency overrides
    • auto-tuning
  • Video capture device control
    • video input (crossbar interface)
    • video format
    • frame rate
    • supports video cards with several inputs
    • camera control (brightness, saturation, etc.)
  • Network streaming
    • in WMV format
    • to other media servers and devices using virtual camera/audio source
  • Motion detection
  • Closed captions support
  • Custom interfaces support
  • OSD (On-Screen Display)
  • PIP (Picture-In-Picture)
  • Video encryption
  • Screen capture
  • Virtual Camera output
  • Multiply output screens support

Supported input devices:

  • DV and HDV MPEG-2 camcorders
  • USB web-cameras and other capture devices (including 4K devices)
  • PCI capture cards
  • TV Tuners (with and without internal MPEG Encoder)
  • JPEG/MJPEG, MPEG-4 and H.264 HTTP / RTSP / RTMP IP cameras / servers, HD format supported
  • ONVIF IP cameras (with PTZ)
  • Audio capture devices and sound cards
  • ASIO devices

Development platforms:

  • Visual Studio 2005 and later: Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic .NET
  • Delphi 6 / 7 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2009 / 2010 / XE / XE2 / XE3 / XE4 / XE5 / XE6 / XE7 / XE8 / 10 / 10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3 / 10.4 / 11
  • Visual Studio 6: Visual C++, Visual Basic 6
  • Borland C++ Builder 5 and later
  • may be used with other ActiveX compatible applications like Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, FrontPage, Powerbuilder, etc.
  • x86 and x64 versions

System requirements

  • Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2012, and later
  • .Net Framework 4.0 or later (for ActiveX-based .Net demo applications)
  • DirectX 9 or later

Distribution rights

Royalty-free distribution.

Trial limitations

The trial version overlays a nag-screen over the video window.

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Supported input devices and other sources
  • Web cameras 
  • TV tuners
  • DV and MPEG camcorders 
  • Screen capture
  • HTTP / RTSP / ONVIF IP cameras
  • UDP, TCP, RTMP and other network streams
  • Additional engines for network streams
Video preview
Frame grabber
Video processing
Audio processing
HD and 4K video support
TV tuning
Network streaming in WMV format
Network streaming using RTMP / RTSP / UDP
Chroma-key
Motion detection
Video processing using DirectShow filters
OSD (On-Screen Display)
Picture-In-Picture
Changing output file name on-the-fly
Multiple output screens
GPU-accelerated video effects
Output to Virtual Camera SDK
Video Encryption SDK support
Output formats
  • AVI
  • WMV (Windows Media Video)
  • WMA (Windows Media Audio)
  • WAV
  • MP3
  • Ogg Vorbis
  • DV video
  • DV / MPEG-1/2/4 (using TV tuner with internal MPEG encoder or DV/HDV camcorder)
  • Flash Video (FLV) using FFMPEG
  • WebM
  • Custom output formats using external DirectShow filters
  • MPEG-1/2/4 using FFMPEG
  • MP4 H264/AAC using software, Intel QuickSync or nVidia NVENC / CUDA

Purchase of Video Capture SDK (Delphi / ActiveX) will give you the following benefits:

  • Unlimited usage
  • No nag-screen
  • Free minor and major upgrades within one year (after one year, SDK will work the same as before) for a regular license and unlimited updates for unlimited time for the lifetime license
  • Priority support and fixes

Tutorials, solutions, and code samples for Video Capture SDK (Delphi / ActiveX)

SDK contains optional FFMPEG and libVLC engines. Original libraries licensed as LGPL v2.1.

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