Does allegro have any commands that will
allow me to play any .avi file in my program

Thanks

Yes...isn't there?? An addon I mean?

There are so many different CODECS used with avis. It is unlikely that an AVI lib could play many of them. I can see 2 choices,

1) your allegro program (windows only) calls the Windows Media Control to play any AVI

2) Use a Windows Video Editing program to convert to a simple format which the player code can handle.

do you have any code for this

Go to your favorite search-engine and find some example-code on calling the media-player. It works most likely with OLE-embedding or something like that. Perhaps you're better off converting the avi to flic: IIRC a flic-player is available under allegro.

Note that this program won't be portable! (OLE is AFAICT only available under windows(-emulators) and that goes for the afore-mentioned media-player too).

Xaron

how do I convert the avi file

and whats the code to play it using that other stuff

The code example is in allegro/examples/exfli.c

The conversion can be done with (almost) any video editing software, including VirtualDub