RIFF Walk

Windows 95 Only

The RIFF Walk tool (RIFFWALK.EXE) "walks" the structure of a RIFF file and displays the RIFF chunks contained in the file. It can verify the structure of .AVI and .WAV files.

The following is the command-line syntax for RIFF Walk:

riffwalk [-dx] [-fx] [-j] [-m] [-x] RiffFile
 

-dx

Specifies the maximum depth to descend.

-fx

Specifies the level of detail to use when expanding chunks.

-j

Indicates that "junk" chunks should be listed.

-m

Expand .AVI "movi" LIST chunks.

-x

Provide a hex dump of chunks that are not expanded.

RiffFile

Specifies the RIFF file.