Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Chris Chadwick Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.gnu_compiler Subject: RIFF file format (was: Memory allocation probs...) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 00:36:58 -0800 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 169 Message-ID: <3466C7AA.78AD@dial.pipex.com> 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: ai092.du.pipex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------6098413C1A16" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I; 16bit) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6098413C1A16 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Russell wrote: > > 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 had a quick gander at my Graphic File Format CD to see what it had to say about RIFF. Its quite a detailed description. I've included it here for anyone that's interested. Its a zipped HTML file so you can view it with your browser after unzipping. Sorry if I've PO'd anyone for including an attachment; I understand its 'frowned upon' in news groups but these are private NGs and it is only a small file (now, thats what I call anarchy in the UK!) :) Anyways, bye, Chris --------------6098413C1A16 Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="RIFF.ZIP" UEsDBBQAAAAIAKd4aSNnHorD0RsAAHxZAAAIAAAAcmlmZi5odG3lXG1vG0eS/nwH8D/06YBd eUGRku3NJY5CgJbkhBvL8kpyvIvFYjHkNMmGhzPMzFAv2ct/v3qq+nVIyY6dbyckMjXsrq6u rpenqrvneNmuilGv95/HS53l/KE1baFH3796pV5V9Spr1dVmtcrq+xfq3MzqqqnmrbqcvHp1 PJSW6DP0vadVfi/0jkbHY/VmfH723d7V27OTg/PJCbrtjbpkxiPqf4RO8t/xWiiNxkVTqR/L 6rZU4+bF8XA64h59dambalPPtJqUra5ny6xcaPXKFNqy3Ee7v/XV4P34J/o9/mlCv1++OaXf l+f4fHk6CQMt65H/IzxtsynRm1Z1ruvvDuVRrW6ywizK79qKGyl13OZKHhV63o6I6ev7tQar JJ58Z5vzTdGalc5N5prQv/WnD3BSFVXdPDrE0+cHU9N+LvnVutZNY6ry0TEuX5/11aac2eY6 76tsk5uqr25MrqvPG/w8uzOrzUpNVhmt6JX55XFR/pTVRjefORSWYU1LzGM16q2uWYUeHfDN 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