Initialization and Termination

This topic describes how to initialize and terminate the DVDBuilder API.

DVDBuilder

You must initialize the DVDBuilder API when your application starts and terminate it before your application ends. The DVDBuilder license can be set right after the initialization. If you do not set a license, DVDBuilder will work in demo mode.

namespace InitAndTerminate
{
    using dvdb = PrimoSoftware.DVDBuilder;

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            dvdb.Library.Initialize();

            // Set license. To run DVDBuilder in demo mode, comment the next line out
            dvdb.Library.SetLicense("license-xml-string");

            // Code that uses DVDBuilder goes here

            dvdb.Library.Shutdown();
        }
    }
}

AVBlocks and PrimoBurner

DVDBuilder takes MPEG-2 video as input and creates a VIDEO_TS directory. You can use AVBlocks to convert different video formats to MPEG-2. DVDBuilder does not support DVD burning, but you can use PrimoBurner to burn a VIDEO_TS directory to a DVD.

AVBlocks and PrimoBurner are already included in the DVDBuilder SDK. You must initialize AVBlocks and PrimoBurner before using them.

namespace InitAndTerminate
{
    using avb = PrimoSoftware.AVBlocks;
    using dvdb = PrimoSoftware.DVDBuilder;
    using pb = PrimoSoftware.Burner;

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            avb.Library.Initialize();
            dvdb.Library.Initialize();
            pb.Library.Initialize();

            // Set license
            avb.Library.SetLicense("license-xml-string");
            dvdb.Library.SetLicense("license-xml-string");
            pb.Library.SetLicense("license-xml-string");

            // Code that uses AVBlocks, DVDBuilder, and PrimoBurner goes here

            pb.Library.Shutdown();
            dvdb.Library.Shutdown();
            avb.Library.Shutdown();
        }
    }
}

Last updated on May 6th, 2015 12:00:00 AM