Featuring LEAD's iCompress™ iCompress™ is a collection of technologies from LEAD's software development and research labs that have special relevance to digital imaging and multimedia application development software for both the enterprise and end users. These technologies represent 15 years of development in the programming tools marketplace. iCompress™ is a trademark of LEAD Technologies, Inc. Technologies!
The LEAD H.264 H.264 is a high quality video compression algorithm and is suited for all types of applications with different ranges of bit rates. H.264 compressed video data can be stored inside AVI or OGG files with the option of saving the file with or without the audio data. Codec A COmpressor combined with a DECompressor, or encoder and a decoder, which allows you to both compress and decompress that same data. is a state of the art DirectShowŇ filter for compressing and decompressing video data using H.264/AVC standard (ISO/IEC 14496-10).
H.264 is the latest and most advanced video standard developed jointly by ITU and MPEG. H.264/AVC AVC stands for Advanced Video Coding using the (ISO/IEC 14496-10/AVC) standard, a codec for video signals. provides a far more efficient algorithm for compressing video than any other compression method available. It typically outperforms other standards by a factor of three to four times, especially in comparison to MPEG-2 This format supports both audio and video files. It is higher quality than MPEG1 and is the standard used for DVD compression..
All LEAD codecs and LEADTOOLS processing filters can be used from within any application supporting DirectShowŇ codecs and filters, and can also be controlled programmatically. This allows programmers to create powerful multimedia-based applications utilizing our extensive sets of compression and processing technologies. While it is possible to accomplish this using DirectShowŇ itself, the LEADTOOLS Multimedia SDK greatly simplifies the programming effort, allowing quick deployment of complex code.
The links below show easy-to-use examples of how to access LEADTOOLS codecs and processing filters programmatically:
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Key Features of the LEAD H.264 Video Codec
Licensing and Unlock Mechanisms
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