Need help on how to use Pymedia!

[Dmitry Borisov]

From: "CptPicard" 
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:48:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Need help on how to use Pymedia!

> > Here is the code which will give you what you need( from pycar ). It is
> modified to match what you need and therefore not tested.:
> >
> >     f= open( <file_name>, 'rb' )
> >     dec= acodec.Decoder( <file_extension> )
> >     s= f.read( 20000 )
> >     fr= dec.decode( s )
> >     # Hardcoding for mp3 IDv1 tags
> >     if not dec.hasHeader() and <file_extension>== 'mp3':
> >       f.seek( -128, 2 )
> >       dec= acodec.Decoder( 'mp3' )
> >       dec.decode( f.read( 128 ) )
> >
> >     print dec.getInfo()
> 
> I appreciate your support.
> I understand that this is a piece of code specially written for fixing my
> problem but where could I find such example in pycar ? I looked for Decoder
> in the pycar source code (pymedia*-src) and found no match.
> 
> Do you include support for tag IDv2 too ?

Yes it is. 
The code is located in pycar/audio/aplaylist.py class AudioFileList.getFileParams()
The source for pycar is here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pymedia/pycar-1.0.0-pre2-src.zip
Dmitry/