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Re: How to read *.bmp *.wav files?

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• Subject: [mg4233] Re: [mg4171] How to read *.bmp *.wav files?
• From: John Fultz <jfultz>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 03:28:59 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The code for reading *.wav files is available in the
Miscellaneous`Audio` package, which comes standard with Mathematica
(the documentation for it is in the _Guide to Standard Packages_).  I'm
not immediately aware of any code to read bitmaps, but the format is
well-documented (almost any Windows programming book that covers
graphics will have it) and not too difficult to parse.  However, I will
mention that binary reading under Mathematica for Windows is
problematic--it's very slow and it sometimes does text-binary
translation which is very bad.  If you decide to code this routine
yourself, I recommend reading in the bitmap file with FastBinaryFiles
(0206-783 on MathSource).


Sincerely,

John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
Applications Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.

> Does any know / have samples for reading *.bmp and *.wav files?  Please 
> help!
> -- 
> Willington Wong
> Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems
> Starvision Multimedia Corporation
> Suite 450, 4260 Still Creek Drive
> Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5C 6C6
> tel: +1 (604) 205 5505
> fax: +1 (604) 205 5511
> willington_wong at starvision.com
> http://www.starvision.com

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