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Media file meta-data on Windows in Delphi.

Author: Craig Chapman Here’s a little Déjà vu for regular readers of my blog. One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.” This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write a helper class to solve it.. The Problem. The above excerpt is from a…
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Media file meta-data on Android in Delphi.

Author: Craig Chapman One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.” This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write a…
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Delphi Xlib headers

Author: Craig Chapman Back in November for CodeRage-12, I demonstrated a partial translation of the Xlib headers for X11. At that time I explained that I’d not completed the headers, but would notify on my blog when I had. Well, I’ve just done a major update to those…
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Asking Questions to Get Answers

Asking development and troubleshooting questions is a mix of art and science. Sites like Stack Overflow and other developer community forums will often reject questions that do not meet their standards. Even when you are sending a support request to our premium update…
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Delphi Blogs of the Month #58

The last few months have been really a bit hectic, and I failed to find the time for my regular “notable Delphi blog posts” summary. I’ve also done very few blog posts in general. Here is one, with key entries only (or I’d be way too long). Embarcadero Updates …