BITMAPFILEHEADER hdr;
 LPBITMAPINFOHEADER lpbi;
 
 if (!hDIB)
  return FALSE;
 
 CFile file;
 if( !file.Open( strtemp, CFile::modeWrite|CFile::modeCreate) )
  return FALSE;
 
 lpbi = (LPBITMAPINFOHEADER)hDIB;
 
 int nColors = 1 << lpbi->biBitCount;
 
 // Fill in the fields of the file header
 hdr.bfType = ((WORD) (M << 8) |B); // is always "BM"
 hdr.bfSize = GlobalSize (hDIB) + sizeof( hdr );
 hdr.bfReserved1 = 0;
 hdr.bfReserved2 = 0;
 hdr.bfOffBits = (DWORD) (sizeof( hdr ) + lpbi->biSize +
  nColors * sizeof(RGBQUAD));
 
 // Write the file header
 file.Write( &hdr, sizeof(hdr) );
 
 // Write the DIB header and the bits
 file.Write( lpbi, GlobalSize(hDIB) );
 
 return TRUE;
}

BOOL  CDlgSeter3::ExtractAVIFrames(CString szFileName, CString strBmpDir)
{
    AVIFileInit();

    PAVIFILE avi;
    int res=AVIFileOpen(&avi, szFileName, OF_READ, NULL);

    if (res!=AVIERR_OK)
    {
        //an error occures
        if (avi!=NULL)
            AVIFileRelease(avi);
       
        return FALSE;
    }

    AVIFILEINFO avi_info;
    AVIFileInfo(avi, &avi_info, sizeof(AVIFILEINFO));

    CString szFileInfo;
    szFileInfo.Format("Dimention: %dx%d\n"
                      "Length: %d frames\n"
                      "Max bytes per second: %d\n"
                      "Samples per second: %d\n"
                      "Streams: %d\n"
                      "File Type: %d", avi_info.dwWidth,
                            avi_info.dwHeight,
                            avi_info.dwLength,
                            avi_info.dwMaxBytesPerSec,
                            (DWORD) (avi_info.dwRate / avi_info.dwScale),
                            avi_info.dwStreams,
                            avi_info.szFileType);

    AfxMessageBox(szFileInfo, MB_ICONINFORMATION | MB_OK);

    PAVISTREAM pStream;
    res=AVIFileGetStream(avi, &pStream, streamtypeVIDEO /*video stream*/,
                                               0 /*first stream*/);

    if (res!=AVIERR_OK)
    {
        if (pStream!=NULL)
            AVIStreamRelease(pStream);

        AVIFileExit();
        return FALSE;
    }

    //do some task with the stream
    int iNumFrames;
    int iFirstFrame;

    iFirstFrame=AVIStreamStart(pStream);
    if (iFirstFrame==-1)
    {
        //Error getteing the frame inside the stream

        if (pStream!=NULL)
            AVIStreamRelease(pStream);

        AVIFileExit();
        return FALSE;
    }

    iNumFrames=AVIStreamLength(pStream);
    if (iNumFrames==-1)
    {
        //Error getteing the number of frames inside the stream
       
        if (pStream!=NULL)
            AVIStreamRelease(pStream);
       
        AVIFileExit();
        return FALSE;
    }

    //getting bitmap from frame
    BITMAPINFOHEADER bih;
    ZeroMemory(&bih, sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER));

    bih.biBitCount=24;    //24 bit per pixel
    bih.biClrImportant=0;
    bih.biClrUsed = 0;
    bih.biCompression = BI_RGB;
    bih.biPlanes = 1;
    bih.biSize = 40;
    bih.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;
    bih.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;
    //calculate total size of RGBQUAD scanlines (DWORD aligned)
    bih.biSizeImage = (((bih.biWidth * 3) + 3) & 0xFFFC) * bih.biHeight ;

    PGETFRAME pFrame;
    pFrame=AVIStreamGetFrameOpen(pStream,
           NULL/*(BITMAPINFOHEADER*) AVIGETFRAMEF_BESTDISPLAYFMT*/ /*&bih*/);
   
    //Get the first frame
    int index=0;
    for (int i=iFirstFrame; i    {
        index= i-iFirstFrame;

        BYTE* pDIB = (BYTE*) AVIStreamGetFrame(pFrame, index);
       
        //CreateFromPackedDIBPointer(pDIB, index,strBmpDir);

  WriteDIB(  strBmpDir,pDIB,i);
    }

    AVIStreamGetFrameClose(pFrame);

    //close the stream after finishing the task
    if (pStream!=NULL)
        AVIStreamRelease(pStream);

    AVIFileExit();