[Gambas-user] Music.Length

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Fri Jun 20 12:41:48 CEST 2008


On vendredi 20 juin 2008, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On vendredi 20 juin 2008, Patrik Karlsson wrote:
> > Hello, I'm about to port an old Delphiapp to a nicer environment and
> > I'm looking at Gambas to do the work, Gambas is realy nice!
> >
> > One function I used in Delphi was to get the length of the sound
> > played in TMediaPlayer, since I would like things done after 80%,
> > 90%...
> > Music.Pos tells me where I am, but I can not found a function that
> > tells me how far I have to go.
> >
> > Is there a solution to this?
>
> Alas, if I remember correctly, the SDL library has no method to know the
> length of the music! I don't know if it has changed recently, I will
> check...

Apparently, SDL cannot extract the audio length from some formats, like MP3 
with a variable bitrate stream.

I don't know why apparently the length of the audio is not encoded in the file 
header...

-- 
Benoit Minisini




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