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Opening an AVI File

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The following example initializes the AVIFile library using the AVIFileInit function and opens an AVI file using the AVIFileOpen function. The function uses a default file handler.

// LoadAVIFile - loads AVIFile and opens an AVI file. 
// 
// szfile - filename 
// hwnd - window handle 
// 
VOID LoadAVIFile(LPCSTR szFile, HWND hwnd) 
{ 
    LONG hr; 
    PAVIFILE pfile; 
 
    AVIFileInit();          // opens AVIFile library 
 
    hr = AVIFileOpen(&pfile, szFile, OF_SHARE_DENY_WRITE, 0L); 
    if (hr != 0){ 
        // Handle failure.
        return; 
    } 
 
// 
// Place functions here that interact with the open file. 
// 
 
    AVIFileRelease(pfile);  // closes the file 
    AVIFileExit();          // releases AVIFile library 
}