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does anyone know how the binary information in a video file works... i found the file signature... but i pulled one character off after the file signature and it did not do what i thought it would...

my code works fine... i just dont understand whats in the binary of the video

i have been reading and reading and reading and reading...

please if anyone knows what bits mean what... and how the pixels that represent the images in a video file of any extension are packed away.... i am getting lost in research with only little success...

not a school project...

commercial project...

but i am a student right now... so forgive me if this is not a good queestion please it has been stumping me with an aggravating nature...


thank you so much

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A video is nothing but a collection of images. Try using this library called OpenCV. It has functions to extract frames and then display them.

i don't know if there are other libraries for that. OpenCV supports many video formats.

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