Video format analyzer
I have a video file, I don't know what format it is.
Is there a software to analyze what video content / compression format it uses?
I tried Gspot but it doesn't work (Show "Unknown format")
I'm pretty sure the file is using some publicly available standard codec because I can use a media converter converting it to an avi or mpg4 file.
Thanks in advance.
Here is a Gspot image but shows nothing: alt text http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2675/gspota.png
When I press 1 it says DShow is reporting an error.
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You can use ffpmeg (Windows builds here ) with the -i switch:
ffmpeg -i myfile.avi
FFmpeg version SVN-r19159-Sherpya, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard et al.
Libavutil 50.3.0/50. 3. 0
libavcodec 52.30. 2 / 52.30. 2
libavformat 52.34. 0 / 52.34. 0
libavdevice 52.2.0/52. 2. 0
libavfilter 0. 5. 0/0. 5. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1/0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0/51. 2. 0
built June 12, 2009 04:25:02, gcc: 4.5.0 20090517 (experimental)
Entry # 0, avi, from 'myfile.avi':
Duration: 00: 00: 00.41, Top: 0.000000 , bitrate: 363 kb / s
Stream # 0.0: Video: rawvideo, pal8, 60x49, 12 tbr, 12 tbn, 12 tbc
At least one output file must be specified
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If you're close enough to a modern Linux system, try file . He's pretty well educated:
~> file foo.mov
foo.mov: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie
~> mv foo.mov whatever
~> file whatever
whatever: ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie
As you can see, it checks the contents of the file, it doesn't just check the filename. Without implying that the tool you were trying depended on the filename, just tried to illustrate that it can be a powerful tool.
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