Re: Video Codecs

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

GSpot from http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
is actually designed to work with .avi files, but it
does provide some info when it encounters non-avi
files. It's freeware, so it won't cost you anything to
try it.

Gene Kim-Eng


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From: "Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Video Codecs


Here's a question for those who work with video. Is there a way to find out 
what codec was used to render a video file? We had a co-op student that 
spent considerable time trying different codecs and file formats to produce 
videos last summer. I'm not able to find any notes or record of what he 
finally picked that worked the best for us. He picked one that rendered 
reliably (doesn't crash the computer halfway through), didn't take an 
inordinate amount of time (30 minutes to render 1 minute of video is not 
acceptable for my needs), looked reasonably well (we're not talking 
broadcast quality, but better than most streaming video), and didn't take up 
huge amounts of disk space (we easily place 30 minutes of video on a CD).

I'm looking for something like a utility that could look at a file and 
identify the codec used to render it. Any suggestions?

If it matters, I'm using Pinnacle Studio Ver. 9 and we used WMV as the file 
format.

Thanks,

Tom Johnson
Technical Writer
tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com
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