hi ppl, i was writing an AVI player (for playing AVI in cutscenes etc) ...... i have done alomost all the basic stuff .... now what i do is i read the bitmap(BITMAPHEADERINFO thingy) data and blit it on my screen (SDL Surface) .... but the problem i am facing is that the video is playing upside down ..... i dunno wat is the problem ..... but i think that i am not using SDL_BlitSurface properly ..... has ne1 else faced this problem ..... can anyone help me with this one ..... is it because of SDL blitting or sumthin else .... thanx in advance, enygmyx.

thanx for the quick response but i don't quite know how to do that in my case ...... since i am not actually creating a BMP .... this is how i do it ......
first get the frame data header .....
(LPBITMAPINFOHEADER)AVIStreamGetFrame(pgf, frame);

get the actual raw data ....
pdata=(char *)lpbi+lpbi->biSize;

create a SDL surface using the data just read:
SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom(pdata, info.dwWidth, info.dwHeight, sampleSize, info.dwWidth* (sampleSize/8),R_mask, G_mask, B_mask, A_mask);

finally blit the surface:
SDL_BlitSurface(frame, NULL, S, &dest);

now since i am not creating a texture and then mapping it on some surface hence cannot invert texture coords like it was said in the post pjcast reffered to ..... how can i inverse the bitmap data in my case (i do not want to use any brute force thing like reversing the data using a loop etc.)
thanx in advance,
enygmyx.

[edited by - enygmyx on January 12, 2004 2:33:53 AM]

as pjcast said someone with good SDL knowledge cud help here .... someway that wud allow me to make the SDL surface correctly or blit the surfce inverted ....

well apart from the main question .... i wud also like to know if it is better the way in which i am doing it or is it better that i make texture from the data and map it on some quad?? .....

thanx in advance,
enygmyx.

thanx Trexmaster ..... ur post was helpful in a way that it kinda confirmed that the problem is with SDL_Surfce/SDL bliting
.... but the problem still remains ..... how to rectify this problem .... are there any SDL gurus who can help us poor souls with this ... i just joined the SDL mailing list i will also post this question there and lets see wat happens .....
Trexmaster u said that u have had problems SDL_LoadBMP function ..... but i never had any problems using that ..... also i wud like to know whether u were blitting the surface after loading it or sumthin else ..... especially in the third case where u didn''t use a SDL surface .... did u use SDL_BlitSurface after that ..... cus maybe the problem occurs with SDL_BlitSurface .....
i loaded a BMP using SDL_LoadBMP ..... and then Blitted it on my main surface(window) .... and the texture turned up ok.
kinda confusing and frustating ....
enygmyx.

enygmyx here''s my best guess at your problem,

Since using SDL_LoadBMP worked correctly and since using your own data flipped the image, I suspect the problem lies with the image''s pixel line data order. As pjcast stated, a bitmap stores line data in bottom to top order (bottom most line comes first in the data). Assuming SDL_Surface has its pixel lines in top to bottom order (I don''t know this for certain, just a guess) and when you try:

SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom(pdata, info.dwWidth, info.dwHeight, sampleSize, info.dwWidth* (sampleSize/8),R_mask, G_mask, B_mask, A_mask);

that this SDL function assumes pdata is in top to bottom order. Therefore the resulting image would be upside down and assuming this is what SDL is doing, it is not exactly a problem with SDL but a mixup between two formats. SDL_LoadBMP works correctly because it expects this issue and therefore resolves it by swapping the line order before creating the surface.

The obvious solution is swap the lines before calling SDL_CreateRGBSurfaceFrom but there may be a supported function in SDL for this. I tried looking briefly but did not find any.

Gnork