diff --git a/nd2reader/__init__.py b/nd2reader/__init__.py
index 742aa95..3dd9ebc 100644
--- a/nd2reader/__init__.py
+++ b/nd2reader/__init__.py
@@ -1,9 +1,59 @@
 import array
 import numpy as np
 import struct
+from collections import namedtuple
+from StringIO import StringIO
 
+chunk = namedtuple('Chunk', ['location', 'length'])
+field_of_view = namedtuple('FOV', ['x', 'y', 'z', 'pfs_offset'])
+channel = namedtuple('Channel', ['name', 'camera', 'exposure_time'])
 
-class Nd2Reader(object):
+
+class Nd2(object):
+    def __init__(self, filename):
+        self._parser = Nd2Parser(filename)
+
+    @property
+    def height(self):
+        return self._parser.metadata['ImageAttributes']['SLxImageAttributes']['uiHeight']
+
+    @property
+    def width(self):
+        return self._parser.metadata['ImageAttributes']['SLxImageAttributes']['uiWidth']
+
+    @property
+    def fields_of_view(self):
+        for fov in self.metadata['ImageMetadata']['SLxExperiment']['ppNextLevelEx'][''][0]['uLoopPars']['Points']['']:
+            yield field_of_view(x=fov['dPosX'], y=fov['dPosY'], z=fov['dPosZ'], pfs_offset=fov['dPFSOffset'])
+
+    @property
+    def fov_count(self):
+        return len(list(self.fields_of_view))
+
+    @property
+    def channels(self):
+        metadata = self.metadata['ImageMetadataSeq']['SLxPictureMetadata']['sPicturePlanes']
+        for label, chan in metadata['sPlaneNew'].items():
+            name = chan['sDescription']
+            exposure_time = metadata['sSampleSetting'][label]['dExposureTime']
+            camera = metadata['sSampleSetting'][label]['pCameraSetting']['CameraUserName']
+            yield channel(name=name, exposure_time=exposure_time, camera=camera)
+
+    @property
+    def metadata(self):
+        return self._parser.metadata
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+class Nd2Parser(object):
     """
     Reads .nd2 files, provides an interface to the metadata, and generates numpy arrays from the image data.
 
@@ -13,7 +63,9 @@ class Nd2Reader(object):
         self._file_handler = None
         self._chunk_map_start_location = None
         self._label_map = {}
+        self._metadata = {}
         self._read_map()
+        self._parse_dict_data()
 
     @property
     def fh(self):
@@ -21,6 +73,25 @@ class Nd2Reader(object):
             self._file_handler = open(self._filename, "rb")
         return self._file_handler
 
+    def _parse_dict_data(self):
+        # TODO: Don't like this name
+        for label in self._top_level_dict_labels:
+            chunk_location = self._label_map[label].location
+            data = self._read_chunk(chunk_location)
+            stop = label.index("LV")
+            self._metadata[label[:stop]] = self.read_lv_encoding(data, 1)
+
+    @property
+    def metadata(self):
+        return self._metadata
+
+    @property
+    def _top_level_dict_labels(self):
+        # TODO: I don't like this name either
+        for label in self._label_map.keys():
+            if label.endswith("LV!") or "LV|" in label:
+                yield label
+
     def _read_map(self):
         """
         Every label ends with an exclamation point, however, we can't directly search for those to find all the labels
@@ -36,6 +107,7 @@ class Nd2Reader(object):
             if label == "ND2 CHUNK MAP SIGNATURE 0000001!":
                 # We've reached the end of the chunk map
                 break
+
             self._label_map[label] = value
             label_start = data_start + 16
 
@@ -65,8 +137,8 @@ class Nd2Reader(object):
 
         """
         key = raw_text[label_start: data_start]
-        value = struct.unpack("QQ", raw_text[data_start: data_start + 16])
-        return key, value
+        location, length = struct.unpack("QQ", raw_text[data_start: data_start + 16])
+        return key, chunk(location=location, length=length)
 
     @property
     def chunk_map_start_location(self):
@@ -131,4 +203,83 @@ class Nd2Reader(object):
 
     @staticmethod
     def as_numpy_array(arr):
-        return np.frombuffer(arr)
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+        return np.frombuffer(arr)
+
+    def read_lv_encoding(self, data, count):
+        data = StringIO(data)
+        res = {}
+        for c in range(count):
+            lastpos = data.tell()
+            hdr = data.read(2)
+            if not hdr:
+                break
+            typ = ord(hdr[0])
+            bname = data.read(2*ord(hdr[1]))
+            name = bname.decode("utf16")[:-1].encode("utf8")
+            if typ == 1:
+                value, = struct.unpack("B", data.read(1))
+            elif typ in [2, 3]:
+                value, = struct.unpack("I", data.read(4))
+            elif typ == 5:
+                value, = struct.unpack("Q", data.read(8))
+            elif typ == 6:
+                value, = struct.unpack("d", data.read(8))
+            elif typ == 8:
+                value = data.read(2)
+                while value[-2:] != "\x00\x00":
+                    value += data.read(2)
+                value = value.decode("utf16")[:-1].encode("utf8")
+            elif typ == 9:
+                cnt, = struct.unpack("Q", data.read(8))
+                value = array.array("B", data.read(cnt))
+            elif typ == 11:
+                newcount, length = struct.unpack("<IQ", data.read(12))
+                length -= data.tell()-lastpos
+                nextdata = data.read(length)
+                value = self.read_lv_encoding(nextdata, newcount)
+                # XXX do not know for what these offsets? are
+                unknown = array.array("I", data.read(newcount*8))
+            else:
+                assert 0, "%s hdr %x:%x unknown" % (name, ord(hdr[0]),  ord(hdr[1]))
+            if not name in res:
+                res[name] = value
+            else:
+                if type(res[name]) != type([]):
+                    res[name] = [res[name]]
+                res[name].append(value)
+        x = data.read()
+        assert not x, "skip %d %s" % (len(x), repr(x[:30]))
+        return res
+
+
+class LVLine(object):
+    def __init__(self, line):
+        self._line = line
+        self._extract()
+
+    def _extract(self):
+        if self._type == 11:
+            count, length = struct.unpack("<IQ", self._line[self._name_end: self._name_end + 12])
+            newline = LVLine(self._line[self._name_end + 12:])
+
+    @property
+    def name(self):
+        return self._line[2: self._name_end].decode("utf16").encode("utf8")
+
+    @property
+    def _type(self):
+        return ord(self._line[0])
+
+    @property
+    def _name_end(self):
+        """
+        Length is given as number of characters, but since it's unicode (which is two-bytes per character) we return
+        twice the number.
+
+        """
+        return ord(self._line[1]) * 2
+
+
+class LVData(object):
+    def __init__(self, data):
+        self._extracted_data = LVLine(data)
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diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6675f1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from nd2reader import Nd2
+from pprint import pprint
+
+
+n = Nd2("/home/jim/code/nd2reader/FYLM-140804-001.nd2")
+# print("Height: ", n.height)
+# print("Width: ", n.width)
+# for fov in n.fields_of_view:
+#     print(fov.x, fov.y, fov.z, fov.pfs_offset)
+# pprint(n.metadata['ImageMetadataSeq']['SLxPictureMetadata']['sPicturePlanes'])
+# for label, channel in n.metadata['ImageMetadataSeq']['SLxPictureMetadata']['sPicturePlanes']['sPlaneNew'].items():
+#     print(channel['sDescription'])
+#     print(n.metadata['ImageMetadataSeq']['SLxPictureMetadata']['sPicturePlanes']['sSampleSetting'][label]['dExposureTime'])
+#     print(n.metadata['ImageMetadataSeq']['SLxPictureMetadata']['sPicturePlanes']['sSampleSetting'][label]['pCameraSetting']['CameraUserName'])
+
+for channel in n.channels:
+    print(channel)
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