Windows AVIFile problems

[Thomas Heller]

c d saunter schrieb:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to access individual video frames of an AVI file from within 
> Python 2.4 or 2.5 under Windows XP.
> 
> I have found this example code here for that does exactly what I want,
> using the windows avifile.dll but I am unable to find the AVIFile.h 
> header...
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2002-February/001748.html
> 
> An alternative is to call into avifile.dll dynamically using ctypes, 
> however under both Python 2.4 and 2.5 the following error happens:
> 
>>>> from ctypes import *
>>>> windll.AVIFile
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
>     windll.AVIFile
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 415, in __getattr__
>     dll = self._dlltype(name)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 340, in __init__
>     self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
> WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application
> 

The dll is not corrupt.  It is the 16-bit dll, possibly present for legacy
16-bit support.

You must use the 32-bit dll, it seems it called avifil32.dll.

Also I guess to get the AVIFILE.H header file, you need to install some
MS SDK or the platform sdk.

Thomas