An Investigation on How Building Video Editor

The research aims to investigate the way of building a system to deal with video files, especially those kinds of files which are not supported by Windows Operating System like files of type .AVI, these files are like .mpg or MPEG, .mov, .DAT, , and other kinds. Tow versions of program Video Editor have been built by using two different methods, to be characterized by the following abilities: 1. Forming special display surfaces to operate the different kinds of video files, besides the ability to stop them as Pause and Stop, then reoperating them again. 2. Ability of operating video with or without sound, Mute/UnMute. 3. Control on the height of Volume, Minimize/Maximize Sound. 4. Control on the balance of Volume, from which speaker out, Both/Right/Left Speaker. 5. Display video on the whole screen, Full Screen. 6. Taking any Capture Frames from the movie during its operating and storing it as Bitmap Picture .Bmp. 7. Giving data about the present video file File Information. Video Editor are written by using Visual C++6.0 and on PIII Computer.