The only way that I could find to convert a Sony cam MXF file was to use MXFSplit to pull out the raw stream and then use FFMpeg to convert that to something. Step 1: Download and extract MXFLib from FreeMXF.org (OLD LINK, source only now) FreeMXF.org Step 2:Drop to…
Month: October 2010
Setting a Paragraph’s Absolute Position with iTextSharp
Man, you’d think this would have been easier. The Paragraph object in iTextSharp doesn’t have a position property so you can’t absolutely position it. If you search online they’ll tell you to use a PdfContentByte instead which does not work if you want to handle multiple lines automatically. Also, and…
Cannot access a closed Stream with MemoryStream and StreamWriter
A StreamWriter will close the underlying stream when Dispose is called so if you try the following pattern you’ll receive a “Cannot access a closed Stream” error message. Using MS As New MemoryStream() Using SW As New StreamWriter(MS, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) SW.Write(“Hello”) End Using Using SR As New StreamReader(MS, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) Return SR.ReadToEnd()…