Re: Streaming Live AVI

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From: "Michel Roujansky - DirectShow Consultant and Trainer"

(AVI is not a streaming format).

AVI is a streaming format just as much as ASF or MOV or MKV
or MP4 and so on are, which is to say they are not since the
only real streaming formats are MPEG-1/2 system and
MPEG-1/2/4 elementaty streams.

But, if the implementation can write and read the files
strictly sequentially, than they can be streamed, which is
what e.g. the stock ASF implementation does but not the
stock AVI one, which insists on an index even though it is
optional (I am referring to the default DS filters, which
the old AVIFile library doesn't require an index). If you
were to write your own AVI muxer/demuxer, you could stream
it just as well as you can ASF.



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