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AVIFileOpen

The AVIFileOpen function opens an AVI file and returns the address of a file interface used to access it. The AVIFile library maintains a count of the number of times a file is opened, but not the number of times it was released. Use the AVIFileRelease function to release the file and decrement the count.

STDAPI AVIFileOpen(

PAVIFILE * ppfile,
LPCTSTR szFile,
UINT mode,
CLSID * pclsidHandler
);

Parameters
ppfile

Address to contain the new file interface pointer.

szFile

Null-terminated string containing the name of the file to open.

mode

Access mode to use when opening the file. The default access mode is OF_READ. The following access modes can be specified with AVIFileOpen:

OF_CREATE

Creates a new file. If the file already exists, it is truncated to zero length.

OF_SHARE_DENY_NONE

Opens the file nonexclusively. Other processes can open the file with read or write access. AVIFileOpen fails if another process has opened the file in compatibility mode.

OF_SHARE_DENY_READ

Opens the file nonexclusively. Other processes can open the file with write access. AVIFileOpen fails if another process has opened the file in compatibility mode or has read access to it.

OF_SHARE_DENY_WRITE

Opens the file nonexclusively. Other processes can open the file with read access. AVIFileOpen fails if another process has opened the file in compatibility mode or has write access to it.

OF_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE

Opens the file and denies other processes any access to it. AVIFileOpen fails if any other process has opened the file.

OF_READ

Opens the file for reading.

OF_READWRITE

Opens the file for reading and writing.

OF_WRITE

Opens the file for writing.

pclsidHandler

Address of a class identifier of the standard or custom handler you want to use. If the value is NULL, the system chooses a handler from the registry based on the file extension or the RIFF type specified in the file.

Return Values
Returns zero if successful or an error otherwise. Possible error values include the following:

AVIERR_BADFORMAT	The file couldn't be read, indicating a corrupt file or an unrecognized format.
AVIERR_MEMORY	The file could not be opened because of insufficient memory.
AVIERR_FILEREAD	A disk error occurred while reading the file.
AVIERR_FILEOPEN	A disk error occurred while opening the file.
REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG	According to the registry, the type of file specified in AVIFileOpen does not have a handler to process it.

See Also
AVIFileRelease

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