SAMPLE: Playing AVI File on Direct3D Retained Mode Texture

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft DirectX 2 Software Development Kit (SDK), for Windows 95, version 4.03

SUMMARY

The AVIRM sample demonstrates a method of streaming video from an Audio- Video Interleaved (.avi) file onto a Direct3D Retained Mode texture. The texture is created with the IDirect3DRM::CreateTexture() method and is updated by modifying the memory pointed to by the buffer1 member of the D3DRMIMAGE structure specified.

The stretching capabilities of DirectDraw are used to stretch the AVI frames to fit a 256 by 256 DirectDraw surface used to update the texture. The texture is modified each frame, and the IDirect3DRMTexture::Changed() method is called to inform the renderer of the change.

This sample was developed using Microsoft's Visual C++ 4.x Developer Studio. To build the sample, the development environment must include the DirectX 2 SDK.

You can find AVIRM.EXE (size: 28578 bytes) 
                      , a 28K self-extracting file, on the following

• Microsoft's World Wide Web Site on the Internet

        On the www.microsoft.com home page, click the Support icon.
        Click Knowledge Base, and select the product.
        Enter kbfile AVIRM.EXE (size: 28578 bytes) 
                              , and click GO!
        Open the article, and click the button to download the file.
  
  

• Internet (anonymous FTP)

        ftp ftp.microsoft.com
        Change to the Softlib/Mslfiles folder.
        Get AVIRM.EXE (size: 28578 bytes) 
  

• Microsoft Download Service (MSDL)

        Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
        Download AVIRM.EXE (size: 28578 bytes) 
  

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REFERENCES

AVI streaming code from the AVIDD95 sample was used in this sample. Please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q154789
   TITLE     : SAMPLE: AVI Playback (Streaming) onto DirectDraw Surface