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Video File Identifier

Postby Bobby » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:33 am

I am having some trouble with HD files created for upload to Vimeo (separate topic in HD) but I was wondering as part of that if anybody knows of a utility program that will identify an video file - what it is, resolution, bitrate, codecs required, etc. etc. etc.

The reason I am asking is that I created two QuickTime files at different resolutions (I think!) and yet they file sizes are almost identical. I want to know what is actually in there.

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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby Steve Grisetti » Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:38 am

GSpot doesn't quite do all that, but it sure gives you a lot of information on your file, including codecs.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/GSpot.htm
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby Bobby » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:40 am

Thanks Steve - good idea - but GSpot only supports AVI files. It does in fact give a lot of the info that I wanted (for AVI), but the files in question are QuickTime.
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby ed » Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:06 am

Doesn't the QT player give you these in the movie properties? Maybe you have to have the pro version to see these properties.
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby Bobby » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:05 pm

Thank you Ed. Yes, there is a "Show Movie Inspector" option that does display the information I was looking for - and you don't need Pro to access it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me why an 864x480 .mov file is the same size as a 1280x720 .mov file when everything else (frame rate, data rate, etc.) is identical.
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby RJ Johnston » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:01 pm

MediaInfo is what I use, besides GSpot. It's available at www.sourceforge.net.

Windows i386 version:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediai ... uperb-west

Other versions:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=660756

My method of operation is to select Debug > Advanced Mode, and then select View > Text. That gives a lot of information.

There is a Explorer shell extension option and Shell InfoTips option that I use. Give those a try.
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby Bob » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:30 pm

The current version of GSpot added mov and mpg. The author says support is not complete, but I think that its mainly the rendering function thats incomplete. For structure and content info, it's handled every file I've used with it so far. Of course, my testing is incomplete too. :lol:
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Re: Video File Identifier

Postby Bobby » Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:37 pm

Thanks, Bob

Odd. I just downloaded GSpot yesterday and got V 2.2. I went back to day and got 2.7, which does decode some .mov stuff. Better late than ever!
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