Why does BitmapSource.Create throw an ArgumentException?

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Your stride is incorrect. Stride is the number of bytes allocated for one scanline of the
bitmap. Thus, use the following:

int stride = ((RenderWidth * 32 + 31) & ~31) / 8;

and replace the last parameter (currently 0) with stride as defined above.

Here is an explanation for the mysterious stride formula:

Fact: Scanlines must be aligned on 32-bit boundaries (reference).

The naive formula for the number of bytes per scanline would be:

(width * bpp) / 8

But this might not give us a bitmap aligned on a 32-bit boundary and (width * bpp) might not even have been divisible by 8.

So, what we do is we force our bitmap to have at least 32 bits in a row (we assume that width > 0):

width * bpp + 31

and then we say that we don’t care about the low-order bits (bits 0–4) because we are trying to align on 32-bit boundaries:

(width * bpp + 31) & ~31

and then divide by 8 to get back to bytes:

((width * bpp + 31) & ~31) / 8

The padding can be computed by

int padding = stride - (((width * bpp) + 7) / 8)

The naive formula would be

stride - ((width * bpp) / 8)

But width * bpp might not align on a byte boundary and when it doesn’t this formula would over count the padding by a byte. (Think of a 1 pixel wide bitmap using 1 bpp. The stride is 4 and the naive formula would say that the padding is 4 but in reality it is 3.) So we add a little bit to cover the case that width * bpp is not a byte boundary and then we get the correct formula given above.

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