WPFMediaKit

WPF MediaKit

This is the official new home of WPF MediaKit (the former was https://wpfmediakit.codeplex.com/). A library to quickly build DirectShow media player controls in WPF. The kit comes with a video player MediaUriElement (a WPF MediaElement replacement), a VideoCaptureElement for web cams and a DVDPlayerElement that plays DVDs and supports interactive menus.

For questions and answers follow the tag wpf-mediakit on StackOverflow:

NuGet Package:

Many thanks to Jeremiah Morrill who originally created and developed this awesome control!

Contribute

There is still a lot to do! So, please feel free to help, if you are an advanced developer! :-) Answer issues, open PR, or become a maintainer. Open an issue, if you are willing to help maintaning this project.

Changelog

Version 3.0:

• Added .NET 8 & .NET 9 compatibility, removed .NET Framework compatibility. If you are still using .NET Framework, please use Version 2.3.0 of WPF MediaKit!

Version 2.3:

• Bugfixes
• Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.8
• Test Application with x64 support

Version 2.2:

• Video snapshots by D3DRenderer.CloneSingleFrameImage()
• D3DRenderer optimizations.
• NuGet package.

Version 2.1:

• Bugfixes (Memory Leak)
• fallback mechanism to auto generate graph if manually generated graph doesn't work
• fix video playback if no audio device is available
• LAV Splitter Source is not hardcorded anymore
• EVR is default Video Renderer

Version 2.0:

• EVR Presenter uses DXVA2 hardware acceleration (thanks to Siegfried Krüger!).
• EVR Presenter doesn't require the DirectX March 2009 Runtimes anymore (thanks to Siegfried Krüger!).
• DirectShow graph will be built manually to have full control.
• Options to set the desired Video, Audio and Splitter Codecs.