Thanks for trying out avi info tip. Its a little utility that was inspired by
the limited nature of the avi info utilities available on the web. This
particular utility is a windows explorer shell extension that displays an info
tooltip, with some of the most useful avi properties, when you move your mouse
over an avi file.

Installation couldn't be simpler - unzip the file, and run setup.exe

If it doesn't seem to work, check to ensure that you have tooltip popups
enabled - under Windows XP, this would be Tools|Folder Options|View and ensure
"Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" is enabled. Your
operating systems's version of explorer should have a similar option.

This program is released as postcard-ware. That means the utility and source
code is free for *any* use, but if you like it, I'd be delighted to receive a
postcard at the following address:

  Chris Welsh
  30 Highfield Avenue
  Greenford
  Middlesex
  UB6 0JD
  England

Please send bug reports or comments to
  quantumf-nospam@schedule7.com (delete the "-nospam" before sending)

You use this program at your own risk - I can't imagine it damaging anything,
but hey, this is windows!



Thanks to:
My testers: Erich Wehmeyer, Antony Day and Heinrich Hollis





Version History

1.1 16 September 2002  Approximately 70 new audio codecs are added

1.0  28 August 2002  Initial Release





Additional comments:

Currently only avi files are supported. I might add support for asf files
presently. No plans at the moment to include support for mpeg or quicktime
files, due to lack of information about the file content of these formats. If
anyone has useful documents/links in this regard, *please* let me know.

The mechanism employed by this application to recognize video codecs is
as follows:
1) Extract the four CC code from the stream header
2) If that makes no sense, try getting the four CC code from the
   BITMAPHEADERINFO structure of the video stream
3) If the codec is installed on the system, query the codec itself for a
   description.
4) If the codec is not installed, its tries it against a (growing) list of 
   codes pre-programmed into the DLL
5) If none of these work, then it simply outputs "Unrecognized"

For audio streams, a similar approach is followed, although the wave format
structure is immediately queried for its integer codec identifier.

Midi and Text streams are not currently supported.

This also means that this program is probably already out of date! So if you
do come across "Unrecognized", please let me know, including of course the
four CC code displayed in brackets. If you know what the codec *should* be, that
would be useful too.

Any comments/suggestions gratefully received.