Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Graeme Evans" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler Subject: Re: Memory allocation probs... Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 19:29:52 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 17 Message-ID: <63l8d3$sk227@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <34551BB5.58BA@dial.pipex.com> <3454c596.21265918@news.playstation.co.uk> <3456076E.92B9FC58@micronetics.com> <3456FA5F.DB8@dial.pipex.com> <345695E0.6102@peace.co.nz> <3457216F.61478ECA@micronetics.com> <3457AB65.28CC@peace.co.nz> <3458b58e.3790452@news.playstation.co.uk> <345CFDA7.794B@peace.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: fourny.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 >I'm getting off topic wildly here, but I had a look on the CD at the >movie files - they had the extension ".MOV", but obviously weren't >Quicktime movies. A quick squizz at the header showed they were of >type "RIFF". Anyone heard of this format? That program floating >around (PSXVIDEO) couldn't convert it to AVI - Bother. I think RIFF is a microsoft format. WAV files are a sort of RIFF, I'm sure theres an explanation of the format somewhere in the windows multimedia manuals. Not that it would help you much except tell you where to look in the header to find the format of the data inside the RIFF, which could I guess be anything