Ray,

>What is the story on AVI files?

I think there's LOTS of stories. I'll share mine.

I have two sources of .AVI files. One via a Windows program (WinDV
[free]) which I use to transfer home movies from a mini-DV tape
recorded on a personal video recorder to the PC via a FireWire card. It
offers to store the data as AVI "type 1" or "type 2".
It turns out that
.AVI files are a wrapper around, and I guess in a way a composite of,
separate audio and video tracks; and that the distinction between the
two "types" is about how the audio and video are ... let's say
"merged".

Various editing/processing programs handle either type 1 or type 2;
maybe some can now do either. I forget the details, but I settled on
using type 1 which is easily read by several different Windows programs
into a DVD which plays on DVD players. I didn't do any real serious
editing of those files.

I have subsequently processed those, and current, very same type-1 .AVI
files over the LAN by OS/2 tools ffmpeg, dvdauthor, and mkisofs2
(thanks to Paul Smedley, Nickk?, others) onto viewable DVD media.

ALSO, it turns out that the "movies" available over the Internet (by
BitTorrent in my case) are also transported as .AVI files which are
just as well processed on OS/2 by the same utils.

'ffmepg' converts those .AVI files into .mpg
In some cases WarpVision plays the .AVI files. In all cases WarpVision
plays the .mpg files without the ODIN package and Windows codecs.

The source .AVI files were in most cases captured via home television
output lines from broadcast TV and "encocded" (?) with one of a number
of different character capitalizations and sequencings  of (DivX|xVid}
on some Windows software, the names and techniques and details of which
I know nothing, but of course there is abundant information on the
result screens of all the better-than-google search engines.

That's all I can come up with now.

;-}







 
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