Multimedia components pack ?

balbaro

Delphi Developer

Multimedia components pack ?

2007-08-09 11:06:38 PM
delphi5
Hello all,
I'm thinking programming a app wich would be capable of playing all the
current audio and video forms.
Divx,Xvid,Vcd,Svcd,Vob,Ogg,Mp3 etc.
And also be able to respond to a Infrared receiver.
I want to assemble some kind of media Center running under XP.
In order not to having to reinvent the wheel could someone suggest me a good
multimedia component pack ?
Not to expensif, < $200 if possible.
I have no clue what to search for.
Any ideas are welcome, thanks in advance for any help.
victor

Warrick Wilson

Delphi Developer

2007-08-10 12:34:14 AM

Re:Multimedia components pack ?

"balbaro" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

Quote

Hello all,

I'm thinking programming a app wich would be capable of playing all the
current audio and video forms.
Divx,Xvid,Vcd,Svcd,Vob,Ogg,Mp3 etc.
And also be able to respond to a Infrared receiver.
I want to assemble some kind of media Center running under XP.
In order not to having to reinvent the wheel could someone suggest me a
good multimedia component pack ?
Not to expensif, < $200 if possible.

I have no clue what to search for.
Any ideas are welcome, thanks in advance for any help.
There's a borland.public.delphi.multimedia group where you might get help.

There are a number of packages, with various licensing restrictions (MPL,
GPL, LGPL, etc.). The licensing can be an issue if you're creating a
commercial product.
DSPack - www.progdigy.com - for DirectShow-based playback (MPL)
VideoLab - www.mitov.com - for DirectShow-base playback (free for personal
use, commercial license available)
If you want to play Flash and/or Quicktime, you can use the ActiveX
components directly on a form, or there are third-party libraries available
to do that, too.
There's a libavcodec.dll that is LGPL/GPL and is used by a lot of the other
media players. I am not sure about a ready-made Delphi interface for it -
I've not used it.
I'm sure there are more, but that is a start...