<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hi </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px">Bio-formats </span><span style="font-size:10pt"> folks,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm"><font color="#1f497d"><span style="font-size:10pt">here is some more info </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px">about</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> opening large time </span><span style="font-size:13.3333px">series</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> .dv files, from the software engineers at the DeltaVision factory.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Does the latest .dv file format spec doc you have include the below info?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If not, let me know.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">cheers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">#################################################</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">There are two types of .dv formats: the old one, and the new one that we started using in 2006 which allows for much larger numbers of time-points.  From our software team, here’s the logic needed to determine the number of time-points in the file from the header of any .dv image file.  The complexity comes from backwards compatibility, but it should be straightforward enough!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red">determine the image file type by reading the 16-bit integer at header byte 160<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red">if the image file type is >= 100 then<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red">determine the number of time-points from the 32-bit integer at header byte 852<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red">else if the image file type is < 100 then<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:72pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:red">determine the number of time-points from the 16-bit integer at header byte 180<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you could pass this along to the bioformats group, that would be great.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>Let me know if you/they need any more information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">##################################################</span></p></div>