hello,

I just discovered the wonderfull world of api's at allapi.net a few weeks ago, and I've been writing a program to recode avi files into mpeg2.

I used following code to get info on the avi files: avifileinfo

now my problem is I can get all the info on the video stream in the avi, but I can't seem to get the info on the audio stream..
I'm looking for the following specs: 'used codec' and 'sample-rate' so I can make my prog decide if and how it must be converted

big thanks to whom can point me in the right direction

bonarez
ps: for those not knowing about allapi > take a look at their apiguide > really rocks!

This is written in delphi but it could easily be ported to VB and at least the theory is the same:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article840.asp

check this open source app out it's quite nice

hxxp://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/

You do realize that there are already many tools to do this, right?

Any way hxxp://www.doom9.org forum is a good place to ask stuff like this

thing is: most progs do their job just fine, but I need to convert multiple files (tv-series) to dvd, and I don't like to run those progs with every file.. (and caclulate the compression on each mpg to fit all on one dvd)

plus I don't like the way most programs make their mpg files, they make simple mpeg compliant mpeg2 files, while I want to go this way: hxxp://www.kvcd.net > it allows better compression.

I don't want to make a prog that's better then all other progs, I just want a simple way to automate bat and avs (avisynth framserving scripts) file creation so I don't have to spent so much time on conversions. maybe whent thats finished I might add support for other media (rm, mpeg, mov, wmv etc.)

hxxp://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/ > looks really nice! especialy the dll
just hope I can get it to work with vb6 (noted in their readme > support for msvb 7.1 - 2003) maybe it's time to step over to .net

tnx
bonarez

I've setup vb 2003 to give the medainfo dll a try, and I must admit it really does a great job! This is just what I need to get things running!

tnx lev, looks like I'll have to get used to vb 2003...