Determining video file properties using DSpack and Delphi7

Question

I would like to determine various properties from a video file (eg MP4) such as the length of the video etc but I have no experience of working with multimedia Can anyone help

Thanks

MIke

Answer 1

You don't need to use DSPack for this task.
Use the dll version of the MediaInfo library (the download comes with a Pascal demo and Google/Bing/Yahoo!/whatever come for more). Plus, you don't rely on the installed codecs of a machine as MediaInfo is independent.