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image::exiftool::riff

Image::ExifTool::RIFF(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Image::ExifTool::RIFF(3)

NAME

       Image::ExifTool::RIFF - Read RIFF/WAV/AVI meta information

SYNOPSIS

       This module is used by Image::ExifTool

DESCRIPTION

       This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool to extract information from RIFF-based (Resource Interchange File Format) files,
       including Windows WAV audio and AVI video files.

AUTHOR

       Copyright 2003-2010, Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca)

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

REFERENCES

       http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF <http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>
       <http://www.vlsi.fi/datasheets/vs1011.pdf>
       http://www.music-center.com.br/spec_rif.htm <http://www.music-center.com.br/spec_rif.htm>
       <http://www.codeproject.com/audio/wavefiles.asp>
       http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-us/directx9_c/directx/htm/avirifffilereference.asp <http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/en-
       us/directx9_c/directx/htm/avirifffilereference.asp>
       <http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=TwoCC>

SEE ALSO

       "RIFF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, Image::ExifTool(3pm)

perl v5.12.1							    2010-01-25						  Image::ExifTool::RIFF(3)

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