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Browse All TopicsI have a wma file encoded at 128kbps and I need to, programatically, reduce it's encoding down to 37kbps.
I have the Windows Media Encoder SDK and can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this. Has anyone done this? If so, how. Code samples would be great.
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by: KevonPosted on 2008-04-11 at 11:10:40ID: 21336695
Well, after much consternation attempting to use the load profile method, I found that this is the way to do it.
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private static bool done = false;
Somewhere in your main code, or create a method...
string inputFile = "source.wma";
string outputFile = "destination.wma";
// Create encoder:
enc = new WMEncoderLib.WMEncoderClas
enc.OnStateChange += new _IWMEncoderEvents_OnStateC
profile = new WMEncoderLib.WMEncProfile2
profile.ContentType = WMENC_CONTENT_ONE_AUDIO;
profile.ProfileName = "Profile1";
audience = profile.AddAudience(100000
// Set the encoding codec to WMA9STD with 1-pass CBR encoding:
int idxCodec = profile.GetCodecIndexFromF
//profile.EnumAudioCodec(i
audience.set_AudioCodec(0,
// 2 channels, 22kHz sampling rate, 32kbps bitrate, 16-bit samples
audience.SetAudioConfig(0,
srcGroup = enc.SourceGroupCollection.
srcGroup.set_Profile(profi
src = srcGroup.AddSource(WMEncod
src.SetInput(inputFile, String.Empty, String.Empty);
enc.File.LocalFileName = outputFile;
enc.AutoStop = true;
enc.PrepareToEncode(true);
enc.Start();
while (!done)
Thread.Sleep(10);
enc.Stop();
} finally {
if (enc != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(e
if (srcGroup != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(s
if (src != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(s
if (profile != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(p
if (audience != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(a
}
private static void OnStateChange(WMENC_ENCODE
{
if (state == WMENC_ENCODER_STATE.WMENC_
{
done = true;
}
}