Mission-critical Video development tools.

Introducing ZIRCONIUM

ZIRCONIUM is the industry's first truly managed DirectShow development and filter authoring framework. Suitable for a wide variety of applications and rapid filter prototyping in your preferred .NET Runtime language.

Until now, Video technology has been a predominantly for the native C++ development platform. ZIRCONIUM not only has the speed you're looking for, but also the ease of use and flexibility by working seamlessly with the .net WPF framework as well as WinForms, or any traditional dedicated console app.

ZIRCONIUM features everything you would expect from a managed .net framework library, including full intellisense documentation for DirectShow and Mpeg bit stream objects. In addition to all this, ZIRCONIUM is by far the most robust video framework around supporting not only traditional Mpeg2/H.264 development, but also ATSC, DVB, BDA and DirectShow (legacy as well as managed), and even supports using the best of MediaFoundation along with the EVR (Enhanced Video Renderer).

Key benefits

  • Use Visual Studio/C# to Edit-And-Continue during directshow filter development for rapid prototyping and debugging.
  • Gain better deterministic application performance and reliability in the field, by gracefully handling runtime exceptions.
  • Use ZIRCONIUM's .NET optimized CBaseFilter and CBasePin implementations to rapidly produce hardened media processing.
  • No legacy COM registration required when using the ZIRCONIUM managed FilterGraph framework, means zero installation during deployment. Applications may be deployed side-by-side with the ZIRCONIUM assemblies.

ZIRCONIUM includes

  • ZIRCONIUM.Mpeg
    A comprehensive, high performing Mpeg2, DVB PSI and ATSC transport stream parsing framework. Includes most PSI table and descriptor definitions from ETSI EN 300 468, as well as ATSC A/65C.

    A novel and highly flexible object-oriented bit-level field serialization API lets you easily extend PSI processing capabilities for custom stream formats.
  • ZIRCONIUM.Windows
    Provides a C# based .NET runtime wrapper for DirectShow filter authoring, simplified playback FilterGraph management, including BDA device management. This is not your usual COM object interop!
  • ZIRCONIUM.Presenters
    A 100% C# based Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) video playback brush implemented through both a MediaFoundation Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) presenter, as well as the legacy Video Mixing Renderer (VMR9.)

  • ZIRCONIUM.Filters
    High performance directshow filters including a low-latency Transport Stream demultiplexer, recording Sink Filter, Timeshift Streams and more.