How to convert Audio/Video to binary and vice verse

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Could you kindly help me? I want to convert a media file (image/audio/video) to an array of bytes and vice verse. I made the image converter but still the video and audio .. the idea of that is .. to send the media file as zeros and ones then reconvert it to original file.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 1-Apr-11 3:58am

Hisham Ghatasheh

Updated 1-Apr-11 10:57am

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Henry Minute · Answer 1 · 2011-04-01T04:16:00

Solution 1

All files stored on a computer are binary. So I think that you might need to edit your question to make it clearer what it is that you want to do.

Posted 1-Apr-11 4:16am

Henry Minute

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Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 11:44am

I'm sorry for that .. I mean zeros and ones
Thanks

Henry Minute 1-Apr-11 12:12pm

That's what binary is - zeros and ones.

It is still not clear what you are trying to actually do.

Are you trying to write the binary values out to a file as text like "0001110101011010110"?

Or something else?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Apr-11 12:16pm

Henry, you're already demonstrated angelic patience.
I cannot even post my usual learning+RTFM set of instruction. At certain level of confusion, even learning won't help becuase can be misused to create futher confusions. Any ideas? :-)
--SA

Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 16:49pm

I'm now working on my own protocol the first step is to convert the media file to array of bytes and send it .. and the receiver should reconvert it from array of bytes to Audio/Video file..

I hope its clear now, and I'm so sorry for the weakness in my language !!!

Thank you

Henry Minute 1-Apr-11 16:57pm

All you have to do is send the array of bytes. They're already binary. :)

Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 17:03pm

here is the problem .. how to make the array of bytes? .. how to convert the media file? there is a package support that?

Henry Minute 1-Apr-11 17:13pm

I all depends on how you propose to send the data. Unless you intend to do some special processing on the media file you are better off just zipping it and sending it

Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 17:17pm

Aha .. I got your idea .. but my project requires to convert the file to binary

Henry Minute 1-Apr-11 17:25pm

As I said before if it's a file, it's already binary, so you are going to have to give more detail about your project.

Any time you start to read your file into memory prior to transmission, you are converting it to an array of bytes in memory.

Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 17:27pm

just i want to take a video/audio file the convert it to binary (0111111111100010001) .. after that I want to reconvert it from binary (0111111111100010001) to video/audio file

fjdiewornncalwe 1-Apr-11 17:31pm

Why does this smell of an April Fool's Day Joke.

Henry Minute 1-Apr-11 17:40pm

You could be right.

Hisham Ghatasheh 2-Apr-11 4:37am

Sure its not

Jitesh Gosar 13-Jun-16 8:48am

I didn't get it. How can I see a video file in binary format?

If I open a video file(for example .mp4) in gedit,then I get some Hex and some random characters(that are not included in English alphabtes.
Please Explain.

ZGelic · Answer 2 · 2011-04-01T07:02:00

Solution 2

Take a look at this:

MSDN Magazine[^]

Posted 1-Apr-11 7:02am

ZGelic

Updated 1-Apr-11 10:58am

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Hisham Ghatasheh 1-Apr-11 17:06pm

Thank you ! .. I will try it ..

adam213 · Answer 3 · 2012-05-27T23:43:00

Dim sql As String = "INSERT INTO student VALUES(@Photo)"
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand(Sql, con)
Dim ms As New MemoryStream()
PictureBox1.Image.Save(ms, PictureBox1.Image.RawFormat)
Dim data As Byte() = ms.GetBuffer()
Dim p As New SqlParameter("@photo", SqlDbType.Image)
p.Value = data
cmd.Parameters.Add(p)
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
MessageBox.Show("record has been saved", "Save", MessageBoxButtons.OK)

i will searching too for the video converting to byte. but i have one of the solution you want to know. it only on the image file. you will set your data type to "image".