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To convert some encoded data (e.g. bytes, electrical signals) to some representation ready for further processing (e.g. string, object, picture)

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 7240: character maps to

I am student doing my master thesis. As part of my thesis, I am working with python. I am reading a log file of .csv format and writing the extracted data to another .csv file in a well formatted way. However, when the file is read, I am getting…
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How to decode H.264 video frame in Java environment

Does anyone know how to decode H.264 video frame in Java environment? My network camera products support the RTP/RTSP Streaming. The service standard RTP/RTSP from my network camera is served and it also supports “RTP/RTSP over HTTP”. RTSP : TCP…
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'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 : invalid continuation byte error

I am trying to read all PDF files from a folder to look for a number using regular expression. On inspection, the charset for PDFs is 'UTF-8'. Throws this error: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10: invalid continuation…
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How to Convert Pdf to base64 and Encode / Decode

OK, I have some pdf need convert to base64 by base64encoder. finally, I use decoder to convert back to pdf format but my content is lost. my code : byte[] input_file = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("C:\\user\\Desktop\\dir1\\dir2\\test3.pdf")); …
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What is the difference between and

I am new to python. I'm confused by the . I got a str by using: response = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read().decode() The type of 'response' is , not . When I try to manipulate this str in 'for loop': for ID…
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Decoding Base64 Images

I have recently found a file on the web, and I really need the original url to it, but it's encoded into Base64. It's an image. The URL Starts with something like this: data:image/png;base64, and then there are loads of numbers and letters. My…
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Cannot split, a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

I am trying to write a tshark (or any shell command for that matter) to a file. I've tried using decode and encode but it still yells at me that the split method cannot use the datatype. My attempts are still in the code as comments, after the…
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Cross platform (php to C# .NET) encryption/decryption with Rijndael

I'm currently having a bit of problem with decrypting a message encrypted by php mcrypt. The php code is as following:
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decode base64 svg data to a svg file

I have a file containing a svg image which is base64 encoded (data-uri). The file starts with data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN.... How to decode this to a .svg file in linux ?
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python: Invalid base64-encoded string: number of data characters (5) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4

output the following error: Exception Value: Invalid base64-encoded string: number of data characters (5) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4 Exception Location: D:\Program Files\Python\lib\base64.py in b64decode, line 87 " I input python…
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opencv read error:[h264 @ 0x8f915e0] error while decoding MB 53 20, bytestream -7

My configuration: ubuntu 16.04 opencv 3.3.1 gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 ffmpeg version 3.4.2-1~16.04.york0 and I built opencv with: cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -D PYTHON_EXECUTABLE=$(which python) -D…
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Decoding JSON and a base64-encoded value in a shell script

I have a JSON and I need to extract a base64-encoded value by particular key and decode it. JSON has the following structure: [ { "LockIndex": 0, "Key": "Arul/key1", "Flags": 0, "Value": "MzAKCg==", "CreateIndex": 369, …
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Decode video in Raspberry Pi without using OpenMAX?

I am looking for an example of decoding video on Raspberry Pi directly, without using OpenMAX. This explains the different layers of multimedia software: There is an additional layer which is not shown in here, the "MMAL" layer which is (I…
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I don't understand encode and decode in Python (2.7.3)

I tried to understand by myself encode and decode in Python but nothing is really clear for me. str.encode([encoding,[errors]]) str.decode([encoding,[errors]]) First, I don't understand the need of the "encoding" parameter in these two…
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Decoding Base64 Image

I have got a Base64 image in an HTML embedded, how can I decode this using C# or VB.net.
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