I am using VFW unit from JEDI wrapper on WinAPI.
The code I am writing is intended to search user drives and detect warez (note: deciding if some file is legal or not is beyond scope of this question). We do MP3, WMA and some graphic file search. Now we want to detect illegal movies. I want to open AVI file, read some details from it and close it. I have the following code:
uses WFV; //from JEDI api wrappers
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
lInfo : TAVIFILEINFOW;
lFile : IAVIFILE;
lFileType : string;
lLenMinutes : integer;
lFPS : integer;
begin
{init file}
AVIFileInit;
try
{Open file - note: since we search for warez this is perfely "warezy" file}
AVIFileOpen(lFile, e:Sideways KLAXXONSideways KLAXXON.avi , OF_READ, nil);
try
{Get file info}
AVIFileInfoW(lFile, lInfo, sizeof(lInfo));
lFPS:=Round(lInfo.dwRate /lInfo.dwScale);
lLenMinutes := Round(lInfo.dwLength / lFPS / 60);
lFileType := lInfo.szFileType;
{just for show: prepare some memo to see what we get}
memo1.Lines.Clear;
memo1.Lines.Add( File lenght [min]: + IntToStr(lLenMinutes));
memo1.Lines.Add( Width: + IntToStr(lInfo.dwWidth));
memo1.Lines.Add( Height: + IntToStr(lInfo.dwHeight));
memo1.Lines.Add( File type: + lFileType);
finally
{Closing the file}
AVIFileRelease (lFile);
Pointer(lFile) := nil;
end;
finally
{Releasing library}
AVIFileExit;
end;
end;
So the lLenMinutes is something equal to 98 while the movie is about 121 minutes long. This is a huge difference. What am I doing wrong? dwRate is 1 million and dwScale is 40k, so the FPS is perfectly 25. dwLength is 147k MSDN says: “The units are defined by dwRate and dwScale”.
Note: this is a follow-up from this question, but since the crashing problem has been solved, I closed the other question and moved improved content here.