Samples, Tips and Frequently Asked Questions

If you have any FOURCC or video handling samples that you would like to add, please drop me a line and I’ll include them here.

1. DirectDraw Overlay Surface Handling – basic sample
2. RGB to YUV pixel format conversion formulae
3. What is it with the sign of biHeight ?
4. My friend’s AVI plays fine on his/her machine but not on mine. What’s up?
5. How do I manually transfer a codec between PCs?
6. Why is the quality of MSVC video so poor?
7. How do I play AVIs which contain YUY2 format video?
8. How do I find out which codec is required to play a particular AVI file?
9. How do I find out which FOURCCs a given codec supports?
10. How to I get hold of the CJPG codec and how do I install it?
11. How do I get ASVX files to play on a Windows 2000 PC?
12. What is a .ev2 file?
13. I downloaded a movie with FOURCC 0 – what is this?
14. What is a “YUV10” image?