Welcome to Nero´s Technology Licensing Program

Leverage Nero´s industry leading multimedia technology in your commercial applications and services!

For over 20 years, Nero´s award winning multimedia software applications have been delighting customers and OEM partners around the globe. A selection of core technologies powering some of the world`s most popular software products are now available for commercial licensing. Please click on the CONTACT US button, to tell us about your project and find out how we can help you.

Video Codecs

Codec	Operation	Features	Libraries	Framework	Supported OS
H.264/AVC	encoding decoding transcoding	Intel/ATI/Nvidia hardware encoding /software encoding DXVA hardware decoding/software decoding Transcode with smart encoding	C/C++ DLL libraries for 32-bit (wrapper DLL)	DirectShow	Windows X86/X64 (X64 emulated)
MPEG-4 Part 2/H.263	encoding decoding transcoding	Software encoding DXVA hardware decoding/ software decoding	C/C++ DLL libraries for 32-bit (wrapper DLL)	DirectShow	Windows X86/X64 (X64 emulated)

Reference quality H.264 video codecs

Fully compliant with ISO/IEC 14496-10 specification
Max resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 60 fps (Level 5.2)

Reference quality MPEG-4 SP/ASP video codecs

MPEG-4 (ISO/IEC 14496-2) & H.263 (ITU-T Recommendation H.263)
Levels up to Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) @ 5 Level

Audio Codecs

Codec	Operation	Features	Libraries	Framework	Supported OS
AAC	encoding encoding transcoding	Software encoding Software decoding Specifically optimized for SSE/SSE2 instruction sets	C/C++ DLL libraries for 32-bit (wrapper DLL)	DirectShow	Windows X86/64 (X64 emulated)

THE HIGHEST FIDELITY MPEG-4 AUDIO SOLUTION BY NERO

Reference quality codec for MPEG-4 AAC LC, HE-AAC [AAC Low Complexity (LC) + SBR], and HE-AACv2 (LC + SBR + Parametric Stereo(PS)
Support for .aac and MPEG-4 (.mp4,.m4a) containers
Supported bit rates: 6 – 320 Kb/s per channel
Supported coding modes: Constant Bit Rate (CBR), Average Bit Rate (ABR), Variable Bit Rate (VBR), Double-Pass (2-Pass) CBR
Supported sampling rate: 8 kHz to 96 kHz (fully compliant with ISO 14496-3 standard)
Supported channels: 8 channels max (7.1 Speakers configuration)
Supported PCM bit depths: 8, 16, 24 and 32-bit integer, and 32-bit Floating point for maximum precision
Crystal-clear, award-winning sound quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
Support for embedded album art including covers, booklets, and lyrics
Testimonial Press: Chip Magazine (Germany) found that AAC files encoded with the Nero AAC encoder would consume as little as half of the space on a portable music player when compared to MP3 files of similar audio quality.
Testimonial OEM: Nero AAC decoder integrated in Bang & Olufsen Beoplayer software (Press Release)

Disc Burning SDK

Add the world`s leading disc burning engine to your applications

When it comes to data burning, no technology can match the world`s leading engine that powers Nero´s most trusted applications.

Features include:

List all available drives, speeds, and formats
Obtain the information about the current disc in any drive
Burn:
ISO DVD ; ISO/Audio CD; Video CD; Super Video CD; Disc from image; Freestyle disc
Perform disc copy operation
Estimate resulting ISO track size
Grab Audio tracks and store them in files (Digital Audio Extraction)
Eject disc from drive or load disc into drive
Erase rewritable media
Display the disc information contained in an image file

Nero SDK includes:

NeroAPI: Application Programming Interface
NeroCOM: Type Library for the Component Object Model / set of COM classes and interfaces that can be used in any programming language that supports COM philosophy (including C/C++, Delphi, Visual Basic,Java, etc.) / language independent / single DLL file
NeroCMD: console application that facilitates the processing of commands which NeroAPI understands