OpenAVI v1.0
1st Qbasic AVI Player

    OpenAVI v1.0 is a graphics utility which plays/displays Windows compatible AVI (Audio/Video Interlease) files in Qbasic (Dos).

  Features

• Displays 8, 16 and 24-bit uncompressed AVI video sequences in full-color, in screen 13 (320 X 200 X 8).

• Displays 8-bit RLE compressed AVI video sequences

• Plays 8 and 16-bit uncompressed AVI audio sequences, which are mono or stereo from 8Khz to 44Khz.

• Converts 16 and 24-bit uncompressed AVI sequences into 8-bit uncompressed sequences stored in AVX files, for easier playing.

  Downloads

Download OpenAVI v1.0

Example AVI File With Sound (12Kb)

Example AVI File Without Sound (116Kb)

  History

• Version 1.0
  Source code was re-written from scratch to improve the parsing of the AVI format.

• Version 0.6
  Improved the parsing source so that it would be compatible with more AVIs. (Qb 1.1 compatible)

• Version 0.5
  Added playing of 8-bit uncompressed 11khz audio sequences.

• Version 0.4
  Re-implemented 24-bit capabilities, to show 24-bit AVIs in color.

• Version 0.3
  Improved the displaying of 8-bit AVIs, by the help of Assembly routines, but limited it to images smaller than 321 X 201. Removed 24-bit capabilities.

• Version 0.2
  Improved the displaying of 8-bit AVIs by converting the image to BSAVE format and then using BLOAD. Added 24-bit capabilities, to display 24-bit AVIs in greyscale.

• Version 0.1
  The Original, only displays 8-bit uncompressed AVIs.