mension.</li></ol><h2>About AVIs and Compressors</h2><p>
In its simplest form, an AVI is just a stream of Device Independent Bitmaps
(DIBs) written in series into a file with some header information describing
the type and size of a DIB.  However, without any form of compression very large
files can be created.  For example, the File Download AVI you get when you
are downloading using IE consists of 31 frames, each of which is 272 x 60 pixels.
Even if we use 8 bits/per pixel bitmaps for each frame, the raw 