The LEADTOOLS DVD Module extends the LEADTOOLS Multimedia toolkit by adding functionality for programmatically creating, capturing, authoring, burning, and playing DVD images. DVD images created with the LEADTOOLS DVD Module can be played back using DVD player software or burned to DVD for playback using a DVD player or drive. The LEADTOOLS DVD Module has everything you need to create and burn DVD images, including a DVD writer to create images, DVD burner, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 multiplexers, MPEG Audio encoder, LEAD MPEG-2 Standard video codec (Encoder/Decoder), and several DirectShow filters & Media Foundation Transforms to resize and crop videos, as well as filters to convert video color spaces. It also includes an object for extracting DVD metadata information (art cover, cast info, release year, chapter information, etc).