Writing G.711 Stream to AVI File

Question

I've inherited an application that opens a proprietary file which has a video stream and an audio stream (G.711 ULAW format). The application already writes the video to an AVI but without the audio. I want to add code that inserts the audio stream in the same format to the AVI file.

Are there any code samples/documentation that show how to write a G.711 stream into AVI?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '13 at 23:43

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The AVIFile services can be used to write streams into AVI format.

G.711 u-law is a standard "wave" audio format in Windows. When you set the format of the audio stream using AVIStreamSetFormat, use the WAVEFORMATEX structure, with wFormatTag set to WAVE_FORMAT_MULAW (0x0007).

[Update] There is a decent-looking walkthrough of how to read and write AVI files on CodeProject: Steganography IV - Reading and Writing AVI files

answered Apr 30 '13 at 23:43

Richard Walters

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Thank you very much for the support! I will look into that and update here shortly. – oferbar May 01 '13 at 09:53

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '13 at 14:52

This is an update on the solution:

Basically I was doing the right thing and passing the correct codec code (WAVE_FORMAT_MULAW) as Richard suggested.

However, each API call: AVIFileCreateStream and AVIStreamSetFormat accepts a different structure. But not all the fields are relevant for the call, so the rest of the structure has to be filled with zeros before setting each field.

For example:

AVISTREAMINFO aviHeader;
ZeroMemory(&aviHeader, sizeof(aviHeader));
aviHeader.fccType = streamtypeAUDIO;

...

Thanks!

Writing G.711 Stream to AVI File

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