Neatware's Software Available on Intel's AppUp Center

May 11, 2010 Intel AppUp Center is an App Store for Atom based Netbook, Tablet, and Embedded applications. Neatware's Ladybug Player, Ladybug Mixer, and Fighting UFO are available there now.

Goto AppUp Center here download and install AppUp Center software, then find Ladybug Player and Mixer to setup. Watch Multi-Tasking Video by Ladybug Player.

Zone Blending for Seamless Multi-Channel Video Display

Click Image Map: Left to Product; Center to Partner; Right to Company.
Three videos are played in synchronization.

April 27, 2010 The new features of Ladybug Mixer Professional version 3.8 will include Zone Blending, Video Synchronization, and Fullscreen Picture Snap. Zone Blending is to blend images of adjacent zones into a single seamless image. A panomaic video with large resolution can be composited from several small resolution videos. Zone blending can be used for multiple projector, multiple screen, and display multi-channel videos in a large screen seamlessly. The example of digital signage application is here. Download Ladybug Mxier Professional 3.8 Trial here

Scalable Display Network by Ladybug Mixer

April 5, 2010 To explore the Ladybug Mixer, we set two notebooks to run Ladybug Mixer Professional today. One notebook's display was captured by another notebook. So we can display 7-channel videos on the screen of a notebook. We can construct a scalable camera and display network by using Ladybug Mixer that can be used for camera array. How about connect thousands cameras, displays, and PCs through a network? In theory the number of units are unlimited.

The top-right zone is the display from another notebook. Both notebooks run Ladybug Mixer Professional simultaneously.

Ladybug Mixer Plus Livestream for Video Streaming

March 30, 2010 Ladybug Mixer can work along with Livestream to broadcast the video streaming of Ladybug Mixer through Internet. By using Ladybug Mixer and Procaster of Livestream, you can switch cameras and channels in real-time like a TV Broadcasting Station on your laptop. And you can show fantastic visual effects of Ladybug Mixer to the audiences in the world. An application is to remote education that camera and documents can be composited by Ladybug Mixer and sent to world-wide sites. Download Ladybug Mixer Professional for trial.

This is a snapshot of Ladybug Mixer Streaming through Adputer Channel. Anybody can watch the effects of video mixer from a web browser.

Ladybug Player: A Fast Multi-tasking Media Player

February 18, 2010 Ladybug Player runs on all popular Windows like Windows 7, XP, and Server 2008. It supports almost any media formats and codes like FFDShow, K-Lite Codec Pack. All hardware video decoding for Windows like Ion and Crystal HD are supported. Playing Full HD 1080p from Atom to Core i7 is a simple task. Frameless window, easy to use control panel, and playlist allow a user to demonstrate a better effect of video mixer and presentation. Finally Ladybug Player can be used along with XBMC for Media Content Management and Playback.

A 1080p HD movie on the full screen and another HD video on the bottom-right.
The snapshot was from Adputer Player HD running on
a Dual-Core Atom with hardware acceleration.

Ladybug Mixer 3.7 Released

November 19, 2009 Neatware released the latest version 3.7 of Ladybug Mixer Professional and Mobile Edition today. New version is a massive optimization to allow the Mixer work on small computers. New features include

• Works on all Windows XP, Vista, 7, 2008 PCs from Netbook to Server.
• 30% speedup for video and camera playback and display.
• Add sync control for 4-channel media playback
• Recognize 1394 industry and consumer video camera for computer vision apps.

Ladybug Player Available in TigerDirect

Ladybug Player Released

August 31, 2009 Neatware, a software maker (ISV) in video processing and applications released the Ladybug Player version 7.0 today. Ladybug Player is a small, fast, and vivid media player. Being optimized for Windows 7, Ladybug Player can use the hardware acceleration even on netbook and display Full HD video in vivid and clarity. It can be used for digital signage, video presentation, and mobile video. Press release is here. Try Ladybug Player here

Instant Running on Windows 7

April 30, 2009 Neatware's software developer went to Microsoft (Canada) Lab to test Neatware's software on Windows 7 RC1 yesterday. After installation, Ladybug Mixer 3.6 Professional Edition, one of the Neatware's most popular software, worked instantly without problems. 3-in-1 Picture-in-Picture (PiP) HD videos were showed on 1920x1200 (Full HD Resolution) LCD screen in smooth. Moreover Ladybug Mixer Enterprise can play 8 parallel videos in true fullscreen without crash. Other software like Ladybug Player XP and MyrmecoX Studio were also worked fine on Windows 7. More details

A snapshot of Ladybug Mixer 3.6 Professional Edition with Picture-in-Picture (PiP)
shader on Windows 7. Resolution 1920x1200.

The testing system was a Dell's Mobile Workstation M90 with Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33GHz, 4GB Memory, Nvidia Quadro FX 2500M. Although FX 2500M was still DirectX 9 class graphics card, the Full HD playback and effects were stunning.