AVI tutorial

[rags]

Can anybody recommend a tutorial on creating avis from bitmaps?
The required steps etc.
MSDN was of no help, unless I searched wrong.
And googling produced some examples in VB and C/C++, but I don't
understand those languages.
Any help would be appreciated.


Rags

[bozo]

I think Microsoft have multimedia SDK with details of AVIFile APIs.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/htm/_win32_multimedia_functions.asp

sorry can't help you anymore than that.

[Farabi]

Is someone has solve this? I cannot understand how to read AVI function.

[k3Eahn]

There is another way to work with avis in case you don't want to work with AVIStream functions.
You'll have to find some info about avi chunks for RIFF files.
Windows provides Video Compression Manager, which you can use to compress bitmaps with codecs installed in your system.
VCM functions start with IC prefix(e.g. ICImageCompress).
To write chunks with compressed bitmaps right to AVI files use mmio functions (or work with RIFF on your own).

[u]

MSDN actually has a complete tutorial on that... but here I mean the complete version of MSDN.
Found it in my earliest MSDN copy (2CDs from 1998). If you have something like it, it's in:
G:\SAMPLES\VC98\SDK\GRAPHICS\VIDEO\WRITEAVI
Anyway, I'll send you some pointers

btw, in the tutorials you have, just look in the srcfiles for the AVIxxx API used, that's what you only need to understand how to make an AVI writer.
[edit] wow, I didn't see this topic is that old