The XMedia library, developed by Medialooks LLC, is a professional multimedia toolkit designed for developers who need to integrate advanced audio and video processing, capturing, encoding, decoding, and streaming capabilities into their applications. It provides a powerful API for working with multimedia on various platforms.

Key Features of XMedia

1. Video and Audio Capture

Supports capturing from various sources, such as webcams, microphones, and video capture devices (e.g., HDMI, SDI).
Works with professional-grade equipment for high-quality video capture.

2. Media Processing

Encoding and decoding of video and audio in various formats.
Supports high resolutions, including 4K and beyond.
Allows overlaying graphics, text, watermarks, and other elements onto video streams.

3. Streaming

Real-time streaming support for protocols like RTMP, RTSP, HLS, SRT, and more.
Enables the creation of custom media servers or integration with existing platforms.

4. Recording and Playback

Records video and audio to various file formats (e.g., MP4, MKV, AVI).
Playback of multimedia with synchronized audio and video. _(planned)_

5. Professional Standards Support

Works with professional standards like NDI (Network Device Interface) for video-over-IP.
Integrates with broadcasting and video production equipment and software.

6. Cross-Platform Compatibility

Supports multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
Can be integrated into applications written in C++. _(planned support more programming languages)_

7. Flexibility and Performance

Optimized for high-performance tasks, making it suitable for professional video production, broadcasting, and streaming applications.

Build

❗**Important**❗: To build the project correctly, you must select which version of xmedia you want to build. In the instructions below, we use the placeholder <version> wherever a version number should be specified. The version corresponds to a tag in the GitHub repository, e.g. v1.0.1.10-beta.

Windows

Create and enter the build directory:

md xmedia

cd xmedia

Clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia.git . --branch=<version>

git submodule update --init

Download and extract binaries:

You can find the required binaries on the Releases page.

Download them from: https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia/releases/download/<version>/xmedia-<version>-windows.zip and extract them into the lib folder.

Build the project:

cmake -DDYNAMIC_RUNTIME=ON -DDYNAMIC_BUILD=ON -DUSE_PREBUILD=ON -DWITH_TESTS=OFF -S . -B build

cmake --build build

This will configure and build the project inside the build directory.

Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Jammy)

Prerequisites

Set up the runtime environment:

 script
apt-get update
apt-get install -y \
        libavahi-client3 \
        libavahi-common3 \
        libgl1 \
        libx11-6 \
        libxext6 \
        libxv1 \
        libva2 \
        libva-drm2 \
        libva-x11-2 \
        libvdpau1 \
        libxcb1 \
        libxcb-shape0 \
        libxcb-shm0 \
        libxcb-xfixes0

Set up the build environment:

 script
apt-get update
apt-get install -y \
        build-essential \
        cmake \
        wget

Create and enter the build directory:

mkdir -p xmedia && cd xmedia

Clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia.git . --branch=<version>

git submodule update --init

Download and extract binaries:

You can find the required binaries on the Releases page.

Download them from: https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia/releases/download/<version>/xmedia-<version>-linux.tar.gz and extract them into the lib folder.

 script
wget https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia/releases/download/<version>/xmedia-<version>-linux.tar.gz
tar xvfz xmedia-<version>-linux.tar.gz -C lib/

Build the project:

cmake -DDYNAMIC_RUNTIME=ON -DDYNAMIC_BUILD=ON -DUSE_PREBUILD=ON -DWITH_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -S . -B build

cmake --build build

This will configure and build the project inside the build directory.

macOS

Create and enter the build directory:

mkdir -p xmedia && cd xmedia

Clone the sources:

git clone https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia.git . --branch=<version>

git submodule update --init

Download and extract binaries:

You can find the required binaries on the Releases page.

Download them from: https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia/releases/download/<version>/xmedia-<version>-macos.tar.gz and extract them into the lib folder.

 script
wget https://github.com/Medialooks-LLC/xmedia/releases/download/<version>/xmedia-<version>-macos.tar.gz
tar xvfz xmedia-<version>-macos.tar.gz -C lib/

Build the project:

cmake -DDYNAMIC_RUNTIME=ON -DDYNAMIC_BUILD=ON -DUSE_PREBUILD=ON -DWITH_TESTS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -S . -B build

cmake --build build

This will configure and build the project inside the build directory.

Licensing

XMedia is a commercial library. Using it in your projects may require purchasing a license from Medialooks LLC.