If you were ever involved in the development of a streaming media application, you are probably aware of the complexity of the technology and the difficulties in using the market leaders' SDKs from high-level programming languages like Visual Basic or ASP.

Well, no you are not alone. That's why we, at ActiVideo, Inc. are rolling out our new line of products for live and off-line audio-video encoding and streaming. The first product in this line is the WMFEncoder - a combination of OCX control and ActiveX COM component for Windows Media Format encoding.

Windows Media Format by Microsoft Corp. is a highly efficient electronic media format for compression and transmission of multimedia content. Visit the official Windows Media website for more information and samples at www.windowsmedia.com.

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.

WMFEncoder is exteremely easy to use, yet it exposes all the features of the SDK you might need, providing a flexible platform for your application development.

WMFEncoder is reliable and robust. 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 WMFEncoder 1.2 on-line documentation.
• Click here to download the windows help (chm) file.

• WMFEncoder Test GUI (VB6)

• Click here to browse the FAQ database.

1.2 March 1, 2002

• Fixed network port not closed upon .Stop issue;
• Added support for Windows Media Format v.8;
• Added StreamTitle, StreamAuthor, StreamDescription, StreamRating, StreamCopyright properties;
• Added CreateIndex property;
• Added VideoCODEC property;

1.1 April 26, 2001

• Fixed audio/video dissynchronization over long encoding sessions (2 days or more);
• New distribution package and docs;
• The evaluation version includes limitations of the time of the encoded clip (10 seconds).

1.0 March 03, 2001

• Original release - internal use only

Beta2 January 29, 2001

• Release candidate version - internal use only