Recently while working in some Media related project i had a task of finding which media i’m working on. I mean to find out if my player supports running that media. For that i need to work on a solution which can find a media type by reading file headers etc…
I have been shuffling between GSpot Codec Library / VLC / Mediainfo but i found out that Mediainfo is more Developer Friendly and can be easily Integrated into the application
Here is sample code which read details about media
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using MediaInfoLib;
/**
* Ashwin Kumar
* 4/12/2011
* ashwin.rayaprolu@gmail.com
* Sample Command Line program to read and display Media type
* Usage MediaInfoRead
*
* */
namespace MediaInfoRead
{
class MediaInfoRead
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
String ToDisplay = "";
MediaInfo MI = new MediaInfo();
//An example of how to use the library
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nOpen\r\n";
MI.Open(args[0]);
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nInform with Complete=false\r\n";
MI.Option("Complete");
ToDisplay += MI.Inform();
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nInform with Complete=true\r\n";
MI.Option("Complete", "1");
ToDisplay += MI.Inform();
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nCustom Inform\r\n";
MI.Option("Inform", "General;File size is %FileSize% bytes");
ToDisplay += MI.Inform();
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nGet with Stream=General and Parameter='FileSize'\r\n";
ToDisplay += MI.Get(0, 0, "FileSize");
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nGet with Stream=General and Parameter=46\r\n";
ToDisplay += MI.Get(0, 0, 46);
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nCount_Get with StreamKind=Stream_Audio\r\n";
ToDisplay += MI.Count_Get(StreamKind.Audio);
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nGet with Stream=General and Parameter='AudioCount'\r\n";
ToDisplay += MI.Get(StreamKind.General, 0, "AudioCount");
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nGet with Stream=Audio and Parameter='StreamCount'\r\n";
ToDisplay += MI.Get(StreamKind.Audio, 0, "StreamCount");
ToDisplay += "\r\n\r\nClose\r\n";
MI.Close();
Console.WriteLine(ToDisplay);
}
}
}
You Can checkout Sample C# project from following SVN location
https://linkwithweb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Utilities/FindMediaType
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