Bandi Capture LibraryBandi Capture Library

Introduction

Do you want to add capture capability in your application?
You got it! Bandi Capture Library provides capture capablilty as well as performance and stability!

Features

• Video capture in D3D8/9/10, OpenGL, GDI Device
• Audio capture
• Using widely used AVI container, directly playable in other player
• Supported OS: Win32/ C++/ Visual Studio 6.0, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008
• No need to install any other windows codec for recording video.
• Dynamically linked to application(.dll), not interfere with pre-existent code.

Benefits

• Stability

Video capturing is handled by independent Dynamic Linking Library(DLL) - bdcap32.dll -. So it doesn't affect to pre-existent program code.

• Optimized for Speed

Optimized for gaming and less use of CPU and other resource than any other capture solutions.

• No Slowdown

If Core 2 Duo or higher, full screen video capture is possible without no speed penalty. But low end machine can frame skip occurs. it skips and no more slowdown occurs.

• Small size of created file

With well proven video compression algorithm, produce very small size video file. in comparison other capture solution(ex FRAPS), if MJPEG is used, size reduced to 1/5, and if MPEG4 is used size reduced 1/20.

• High quality capture

If Core 2 DUO or higher, capture resolution is up to 2560x1600 and no frame drops. With resizing algorythm, it is independent to original window size.

• Easy to apply

Easy and rapid applying to pre-existent game or any other programs. It is very easy to add this feature, only take no less than 10 minutes.(Help page)

• No dependency of the external file

It doesn't use DirectShow, or Video for Windows, so that it doesn't raise any codec problem

• Small size

If compressed, only about 1MB in size. it is no burden in released application.

• No need to install any other windows codec for playing Video.

Who need it?

• Marketers and Publishers

Advertizing new games by UCC.
If you want to advertize a new game, screen shot is not sufficient.
In game recording functionality is the easiest solution to make UCC contents.
In addition, Bandi Capture Library can directly upload it to Youtube.(see Customers )


See UCC page, it is a UCC made by BCL library's UCC uploading functionality.


• Developers who want to add replaying functionality.

Replay functionality is achieved by video recording or render state recording.
Render state recoding method is easy to implement. But it cannot be reusable to another application.
In contrary video recording method uses video codecs and capture game screen and recording video stream with same manner which any other video encoders do.
It is more complex but more flexible with easy to apply another games.
With BCL video is compressed to 1/20 of original size. It can record long enough period to see whole features of your game.

• Game Tool Developer and etc.

Because it can capture D3D9 screen, game tool with 3D functionality can provide video help to improve their tools usability.