Where can i find the AMV file format specification?

rzxiao · Post by **rzxiao** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:26 am

Hey All,
I am new here, Would anybody kind enough to tell me where I find the AMV file format specification just like Apple's QuickTime File Format Specification.For I hope to wirte a program which could recode TV program to AMR file directly using my own TV-BOX.
I have use the google,but failed.
Thanks very much.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:02 am

As much as we'd all like to have a standard format for AMVs, so that we'd get fewer QCs of "didn't work" and fewer people would use deliberately shitty compression, we do not at this time have a standard spec. Just capture your footage however the hell you want to, and after editing, encode it to something that can be played back with ffdshow. More tips can be found here and here.

hth,

--K

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:06 am

I think the OP is referring to the AMV file format (previous inquiries on the topic have revealed that it does in fact exist), not AMVs in general.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:19 am

Wrong website.

I typed: amv file -anime and got these results: click here

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:19 am

Searching around, it appears that .AMV is a format being pushed by MTV for music videos (and, of course, other video files) on handheld players. Unfortunately for them, we have so contaminated the internet with prior uses of this TLA that even reviews of the X-Micro 400, which seems to be one of the few devices that supports the format so far, reference AMVs rather than .AMV. This will produce a lot of lulz in the short term and maybe some hardship in the long term when MTV finds out that people aren't associating the acronym with them.

To answer the OP's initial question correctly, it's not likely that anyone has the specs for the .AMV format. Since it's being pushed by a media company, it's likely that the intent is to restrict it to approved players, approved files encoded for use on those players by media companies, and files encoded by users of approved players using bundled software. Your best bet is probably to either buy already-existing software that will encode to the format from video captured in another format, or to go through an existing .AMV file with a hex editor and try to pick out the structure yourself, if you're still set on writing your own gear.

hth,

--K

rzxiao · Post by **rzxiao** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:14 am

Whatever,Thanks everybody's reply,especially Kai Stromler. Thanks very much.