Hello monks...

After searching here and CPAN, I'm still deeply ignorant. I'm not sure if what I want to do is even possible, but here goes...

I have a source of continuous streaming video, compressed with a proprietary MPEG4-based codec. I would like to get the packets, write them to a file, and make the file recognizable to Windows Media Player. Getting the packets is easy: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings; 
use strict; 
use IO::Socket; 

my $data;

open OUT, ">file.avi";

my $local = new IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort=>10000, 
     Proto=>'udp');

while(1)
{
    $local->recv($data,1024);
        print OUT "$data";
}

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but the file doesn't play.

Looking at the contents of a legitimate .avi file, I find certain header information and what may be EOF characters.

Is there any convenient way to generate valid Windows .avi header/trailer information for a collection of video packets turned into a file?

Is there anything else I would have to do to my collection of packets to turn it into a legitimate .avi file?

(Or am I completely deluded?)

In reply to Turn network video stream into playable .avi file? by McMahon

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