Reading Different type of files (audio/video/text...) in C.

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I am an intermediate level programmer. I am familiar with C/C++ and the Win32 API. But I am have no experience with huge projects.

I want to how the date (especially images, texts, audios,....) are stored in the computer. And read by programs. And also there is a subject called 'Data-Compression', I want to learn about those things practically, by programming. Please help !

It's good if someone can give a name of a book.

Posted 21-Jul-12 4:05am

Captain Price

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Christian Graus 21-Jul-12 17:48pm

Almost no-one uses C++, let alone C, for Windows. Why are you not learning C# ?

Captain Price 16-Aug-12 13:42pm

C# with .NET, oh, i hate libraries like that. C/C++, faster, the better.

Christian Graus 16-Aug-12 14:04pm

Not true at all. C++ is missing a whole ton of support for things like regex, for example, or even email. And, C# is compiled to native code, versions of the framework that optimised for different processors could make C# code FASTER than C++

Captain Price 18-Aug-12 7:53am

i think C# is compiled to intermediate code (or something like that). Not Native code. Are you sure ? C#.NET is compiled to native code ?

Captain Price 18-Aug-12 7:55am

and i have learned C#.

Christian Graus 18-Aug-12 9:34am

It is compiled to MSIL, which is compiled to native code ( the only thing your computer knows how to run ) when it's executed. That's why there's room for it to be made more efficient on a per processor basis. And, if you 'have learned' C# ( does that mean you know LINQ, how to use anonymous types, etc ? ), then learning C++ is not a bad thing, although be careful, it looks similar but is different in almost every way.

Captain Price 18-Aug-12 12:34pm

that's true C# has some strong functionalists. And it's for rapid application development. But C++, case is different.

Christian Graus 18-Aug-12 15:12pm

For people not programming windows, C++ is still a great language. For Windows, C# is better, now.

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2012-07-21T11:48:00

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They are all binary files. yes, some are compressed, that's why an AVI is huge and an mpg is small, why a bmp is big and a jpg is small. However, they are all just a stream of bytes, there's no practical difference in terms of storage, the difference is entirely in the code that knows how to read that data, and interpret it.

Posted 21-Jul-12 11:48am

Christian Graus

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Captain Price 31-Jul-12 11:59am

yeaa..got it..But where can i learn the coding stuff ?

Christian Graus 16-Aug-12 14:04pm

You can buy books and work through them. File formats are not that interesting, compression probably is. They are definitely not topics that you can get coverage for in a forum reply

Captain Price 18-Aug-12 7:54am

yep, sure, do you know about some good books ?

Christian Graus 18-Aug-12 9:34am

I am sorry, if I did, I would have said so from the start.