need help guys, is there any library or link you can recommend for parsing the frames in an AVI file without using the vfw32.lib libraries? most of the tutorial online uses the windows library, im looking for some tutorial/source that manually parse the frames of the AVI movie. i need this for my project at work with a tight sked :( since im developing in an GCC environment thanks [Edited by - cebugdev on March 28, 2006 5:06:18 AM]

It is not hard to pars an uncompressed AVI file but such a files have a huge size, reading compressed AVI files is on the other hand not easy.
From the following link you can download a MS Word document describing the AVI format:
AVI File format (MS Word)


Try searching on sourceforge.net maybe you will find something helpful:
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=avi&type_of_search=soft

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