Media Foundry

Media-Foundry a Nevada LLC. Formed in 2011 is a provider of industrial grade Digital Media development tools with a focus on high performance, high reliability mission-critical applications.

Media-Foundry is unique in the industry as Media-Foundry software tools are written from the ground up in Managed mode CLR. By definition, Managed mode code is fundamentally more reliable than bare metal c/c++, as it provides a layer of freedom from the actual underlying CPU architecture and is virtually memory leak proof. And because we are one with your universe, your code does not “marshal” or “interop” to or from our video tools using the regular .NET Runtime object handling. Regular interop kills speed, reliability and maintainability. All current .NET video solutions on the market today perform costly “interop” on every single call to your video system. This is not only notoriously slow this also put’s a huge monkey wrench in the way you have to write your code, turning your simple video project into an unexpected nightmare.

So why shouldn’t working with video be easy? Well it is with Media-Foundry ZIRCONIUM Digital Video Tools. Getting you back into the business of making great products is our job!

Features

Advanced terrestrial, cable and satellite transmission and processing (ATSC). Handles encoding and decoding of program specific information (PSI) for live television broadcasting for the North American consumer market.

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), handles encoding and decoding of program specific information (PSI) for live television broadcasting world-wide.

Live Streaming Media package which specializes in On Demand Video delivery and reception. Multi-channel Video Capture and playback, Video surveillance, time shifting, Advanced On Screen Display/graphics overlaying. Support for transparency/Opacity. Ultra low latency, fully fault tolerant video network reception and decoding. Advanced demultiplexing support for precision timing/synchronization of multi-channel streams, including private streams. Automatic re-syncing and flushing for PTS rollovers, backwards spliced video or interrupted video feeds.

Media-Foundry understands the need for the support of legacy systems and knowhow. And although is written in 100% managed .NET. It is 100% compatible with existing DirectShow filters! You can combine legacy along with completely managed filters designs of your imagination. If you’re an old pro with DirectShow you will be right at home with ZIRCONIUM, as everything has been reproduced as a managed structure. So you can re-create your old DirectShow masterpiece filter design inside of C#, VB, Managed C++ extensions using an abbreviated (much cleaner!!!) code design. Of course you can simply call your old friends through the legacy com support that we provide as well.

Ready to step up to WPF? Contrary to popular belief Windows Presentation Foundation is great candidate for advanced UI systems. Not only is ZIRCONIUM 100% compatible with WPF, it was designed for it. ZIRCONIUM can take full advantage of WPF advanced event and data binding support. Treat a ZIRCONIUM video presenter just like you do any ImageSource. Draw over it, layer over it with opacity. Transform it just like you can with any UI Element in the system.

Work in Winforms? No problem, is 100% compatible. Use any language you prefer. Work with it just like you would with any other tool component.

Need to use Visual Basic, F#, C#? ZIRCONIUM is 100% native .NET, there is “ZERO” standard object marshaling. Everything in ZIRCONIUM is a native “Class” and deals directly with function pointers. You can use managed arrays, lists in/out of ZIRCONIUM for bit-stream parsing, allowing you to work with advanced video just like at was any other .NET object.

Worried about CPU performance or framerate, don’t worry about it! The video presenter will take advantage of DXVA for Windows XP and DXVA2 for Vista+ for video decoders that support it.

ZIRCONIUM will automatically detect and use the best available features of your system. EVR is a new technology created for Windows Vista which is part of the MediaFoundation framework