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VGA Programming in C
Graphics programming for DOS... so, pretty useless! But if you want to learn why surface flipping is fast, you can see the source code (and yes, it just involves swapping pointers!). |
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The old Mpeg FAQ
An old and extended FAQ about Mpeg. |
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John McGowan's Avi Overview
An old but still useful presentation of the Avi format.
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A PDF of the "AVI 2.0" specification
While the Avi 1.0 documentation can be found at MSDN (along with the VfW documentation), the so-called Avi 2.0 format is harder to find. Here you'll find a pdf version. |
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Drafts of some standards
Here you can find the drafts of some standards, like Mpeg-1. These documents are supposed to answer all the questions you might have regarding the compression and packaging of the streams in a multimedia file. |
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Old Technology from Microsoft
Before DirectShow, Microsoft had Video for Windows and related APIs. |