Advice - How To Start Converting Video / Audio

Question

I have been using C++ for the last five years now. During this time, I never had to work with audio nor video files. One thing I want to write is an application that will take a AVI/MPEG file and convert it to the OGG format.

Are there any good books / tutorials out there where I can get my feet wet in this domain in general? I am aware the Xiph.Org Foundation, the group responsible for OGG, have libraries and documentation for their API.

Thanks for any insight provided.

Kimberleykimberli

Answer 1

You might want to have a look at FFmpeg source code?

Apiary

Thanks for the idea!! I never thought of looking at source code of a particular multi-media format to learn overall how things work. – Kimberleykimberli