Does anybody know what this file signature is?

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Here's first two hex values of some 18 year old .ANI files that I can't open in any piece of software I can find. I'm attempting to open them myself, or at least get some idea of how these files are encoded.

These first two hex values are invariable throughout the group of files.

01 00

Does anybody here know this file signature, and what sort of files use it?
If you don't know, do you have any suggestions on what else I could do to find out?

Thanks in advance :-)

Posted 14-Feb-14 15:02pm

Mitchell J.

Updated 14-Feb-14 16:23pm

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Andrius Leonavicius 14-Feb-14 21:46pm

Hi,

Here is more information about .ani file format:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1159391,00.asp

Try this one:
http://www.gdgsoft.com/download/anituner.aspx

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-14 21:57pm

What do you mean by "file opener"?'
—SA

Mitchell J. 14-Feb-14 22:22pm

Oh, sorry. "File opener" as in the first few bytes of a file that specify what sort of file it is. I could also have said "file signature". Wikipedia has a list here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures) but I couldn't find this one in there.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Feb-14 23:56pm

I see, thank you for clarification. It is really referred as to "file signature".
—SA

[no name] 14-Feb-14 22:56pm

Hi,

If the file begins with 0x0100 then it is not a standard Windows ANI file. I remember back in the late 90's 3D Studio Max and other 3D tools had some plugins that exported 3D animations into a file with the ANI extension. There were several game engines using these *.ani files.

Mitchell J. 14-Feb-14 23:02pm

Ok. Thanks for the info!

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