How to read date/time stamp within AVI file

[klaushorst]

Hello,
how can I get the date/time stamp out of an AVI with the DV Codec? I'm using the MS VFW API.

Thanks
-Klaus-

 

[pankajkumar]

There are functions given for AVI file handling in SDK ..why don't you try with them..

 

[IonelBurtan]

Check out the MSDN for the folowing index "AviFile Functions", u will find some Windows SDK AVI functions.
If u simply want to read the date/time of the avi file u may use GetFileInformationByHandle, if u have a handle for your file. s-)

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[klaushorst]

Hi,
maybe my question was not clear enough

I don't want to know the simple date/time of a file.

What I want to know is: How can I get the date/time stamp of a frame within an AVI file with a DV Codec.

An AVI is an Audio Video (multimedia) File, which contains audio stream(s) and video streams (s). The video stream contains frames (i.e. 25 frames/sec PAL format). These frames are compressed. This is done with the DV Codec. Somewhere inside of the compressed frames (maybe in the header) is a date/time stamp of each frame and I want to know, how can I get this information.

Regards
-Klaus-

 

[IonelBurtan]

I have studied all the API functions for AVI file, but there seam not to be any timestamp for each stream in the AVI File. Are u sure there is such thing.

Or maybe there is and MS does not want us to know.
U can look also at aviedit and aviview samples from the samples directory of a MSDN.

Greetings, s-)

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[klaushorst]

@IONELBURTAN
Thank you for your effort.
I'm absolut sure that there is somewhere a time/date information in the stream; it's something special of the DV Codec. Maybe I have to check all the header/data of the AVI.

Regards
-Klaus-