If you ever tried writing Win32 application, which accesses a video frame-grabber board, a USB camera or TV tuner device, you probably have an idea how complicated the Video-for-Windows API calls can be... This control was developed to encapsulate all Video-for-Windows functionality and provide high-level languages like VB and Delphi access to single frame and full-motion video capture. As a result, now you can add real-time video capabilities to your application in less than half an hour with virtually no coding.

@ctiVideo will seemlessly incorporate in any ActiveX hosting environment, such as 32-bit Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Visio, even MS Office applications... It  provides easy to use interface for showing the video on-screen, user interaction, video format control, single frame video capture and full-motion video recording. And all this through easy to use set of properties and methods, completely isolated from the API level. @ctiVideo supports any Video-for-Windows (VfW) compatible video device. If you can see the video-capture device listed in the Multimedia section of the system control panel, @ctiVideo will initialize it and will use it for video manipulation.

Using our components you dramatically reduce the development cycle and the time-to-market of your multimedia application. You can re-use any of the sample code, available in our extensive samples library (click here to browse it) and virtually have your application running in several hours, as opposed to weeks or even months, if you decide to build the same functionality from scratch.

@ctiVideo is an integral part of our Audio/Video processing platform, providing source of live video and audio data to all other components in the @ctiVideo family. You can use this control to feed multiple plug-ins, which provide real-time processing, compression and streaming. This set of controls is the only solution currently available on the market, containing building blocks for virtually any AV processing scenario.

@ctiVideo is reliable and robust. This control has been out for more than 3 years now and has proven its qualities in multiple applications. In fact, we are so confident in the quality of our products, we urge you to test-drive them live on our website!!! Click here to check our products in action.

• Click here to browse the @ctiVideo 1.6 on-line documentation.
• Click here to download the windows help (chm) file.

Sample code, using @ctiVideo:

• @ctiVideo OCX Test GUI (VB6)
• @ctiVideo DLL Test GUI (VB6)
• @ctiVideo OCX Test GUI (VC++ 6.0)
• @ctiVideo OCX Database control (Access 97/2000)
• WMFEncoder Test GUI (VB6)
• AVIEncoder Test GUI (VB6)
• VfWSplitter Test GUI (VB6)

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• Multiple instance display fix. Enables multiple instances to show and resize video when connected to multiple devices;
• savePreset/LoadPreset fix. Works correctly on all operating systems.
• Implemented CaptureFinished event;
• Implemented VideoHWnd property;
• Implemented CaptureAVIFilter method;
• The evaluation version can capture up to 15 seconds of motion video and 100 frames in Frame-by-Frame mode.

1.5 August 23, 2000

• Window handle fix. Enables normal operation iv VC++;
• Implemented RequestedWidth, RequestedHeight properties;
• Implemented VideoWidth, VideoHeight properties;
• ActiveX DLL version available.

1.4 December 07, 1999

• New JPEG compressing routines - rare incompatibility fix;
• Implemented AudioHardwareAvailable property;
• Implemented CaptureMode property for setting synchronous/asynchronous capture mode;
• Implemented AVICapturing, AVICurrentFrame, AVICurrentTime and AVIFramesDropped properties for live capture statistics.

1.3 September 22, 1999

• Implemented StopAVICapture method;
• Implemented FrameByFrameOpen, FrameByFrameCapture and FrameByFrameClose methods;
• Implemented SavePreset and LoadPreset methods for storing/retrieving preset video formats;
• The evaluation version can capture up to 5 seconds of motion video and 100 frames in Frame-by-Frame mode.

1.2 August 22, 1999

• Implemented ClipboardCopy method;
• Implemented DriverCount, DriverName and DriverVersion properties;
• Implemented optional parameter for the ConnectVideo method for
  selecting the driver to connect to;
• Fixed the bug causing the overlay to stop after frame capture;
• Fixed the bug, preventing the control from performing properly in Microsoft Access 95/97;
• Implemented CaptureFrame method optional parameters for capturing
  JPEG files and control of the JPEG compression factor;
• The evaluation version has only 1 horizontal line in the
  captured frames

1.1 June 20, 1999

• Fixed 2 small bugs, fixed the funny behaviour with parallel port
  cameras;
• The evaluation version includes limitations of the time of the
  captured clip and 2 horizontal lines in the captured frames

1.0 May 01, 1999

• Original release