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I made an observation in new v1.8 SDK that I'll write here just in case it isn't me being stupid again.

When decoding old .braw files, for example the original samples of wedding that were I believe from braw version 1.0 times, new v1.8 SDK does nor correctly read the ISO values list from file. It worked as expected in SDK 1.7 which I tinkered with just yesterday, today, after updating to SDK v1.8 these files show erroneous values (18, 0, 1, 0, 0 in this order for all these sample clips). Newer files do not seem to have this problem and ISO values are returned as expected.

Hi, can you post the code you're using to read the ISO values?
Some of this changed in 1.7 with regards to reading the analog gain value per frame and looking up the appropriate ISO list etc but nothing should have changed in regards to this for 1.8.

Sure, basically I do this:

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HRESULT result = S_OK;
BOOL isReadOnly;

BSTR cameraType;
clip->GetCameraType(&cameraType);

VARIANT variantList[30];
UINT uintISOList[30];
UINT listLen;

VARIANT analogGain;
VARIANT analogGainIsConstant;
processingAttrs->GetClipAttribute(blackmagicRawClipProcessingAttributeAnalogGain, &analogGain);
processingAttrs->GetClipAttribute(blackmagicRawClipProcessingAttributeAnalogGainIsConstant, &analogGainIsConstant);

result = constants->GetISOListForAnalogGain(cameraType, analogGain.fltVal, analogGainIsConstant.boolVal, uintISOList, &listLen, &isReadOnly);

if (result == S_OK)
{
    for (UINT i = 0; i < listLen; ++i)
    {
        VARIANT var;
        var.uintVal = uintISOList[i];
        variantList[i] = var;
    }
    attribute->updateValueList(variantList, listLen, isReadOnly);
}


But it might be something else messed in my side, I put it up just in case someone else has observed this. Otherwise I would think it is me but newer files seem to load iso list up with no problems.

Just made a very strange observation which is beyond me in why it has any effect. I loop over the array and convert them to VARIANT type, which I then submit to another method that fills my processing parameter class (I use the same value list update routine for all attributes). If I add the std::cout printout there, ISO reading from old files works as expected. If I comment it out, it doesn't. Go figure... I have a feeling I have something off with handling the array but can't put my finger on it.

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if (result == S_OK)
{
    for (UINT i = 0; i < listLen; ++i)
    {
        VARIANT var;
        var.uintVal = uintISOList[i];
        variantList[i] = var;
        std::cout << "Iso value: " << std::to_string(uintISOList[i]) << "\n";   // if I comment this line out, it doesn't work anymore
    }
    attribute->updateValueList(variantList, listLen, isReadOnly);
}

Sorry if I'm spamming with random crap due to my incompetence with c++

Seems like the issue is likely that you are assigning to a Variant without specifying the Variant type. Also, you're setting a fixed sized on your arrays for the ISO list where we'd recommend you dynamically resize these based on the number of entries the SDK provides (you can pass nullptr's when doing this).

Updating your code it would be something like :

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HRESULT result = S_OK;
BOOL isReadOnly;

BSTR cameraType;
clip->GetCameraType(&cameraType);

std::vector<VARIANT> variantList;
std::vector<UINT> uintISOList;
UINT listLen;

VARIANT analogGain;
VARIANT analogGainIsConstant;

processingAttrs->GetClipAttribute(blackmagicRawClipProcessingAttributeAnalogGain, &analogGain);
processingAttrs->GetClipAttribute(blackmagicRawClipProcessingAttributeAnalogGainIsConstant, &analogGainIsConstant);

result = constants->GetISOListForAnalogGain(cameraType, analogGain.fltVal, (BMDbool)analogGainIsConstant.boolVal, nullptr, &listLen, &isReadOnly);

if (result == S_OK)
{
    uintISOList.resize(listLen);
    result = constants->GetISOListForAnalogGain(cameraType, analogGain.fltVal, (BMDbool)analogGainIsConstant.boolVal, &uintISOList[0], &listLen, &isReadOnly);

    if (result == S_OK)
    {
        variantList.resize(listLen);
        for (UINT i = 0; i < listLen; ++i)
        {
            variantList[i].vt = blackmagicRawVariantTypeU32;
            variantList[i].uintVal = uintISOList[i];;
        }
        attribute->updateValueList(&variantList[0], listLen, isReadOnly);
    }
}

Let us know if that helps, thanks.

This is super helpful, thank you! I didn't do dynamic resizing of arrays because I'm lazy but it didn't occur to me that I need to set the variant type, I thought it was basically an union data type.

I'll improve my code and seems that I have some new stuff to try too, from new 12K Ursa

Have fun.