Hello,
I'd like to know if there is a better tool than GSpot. This tool is outdated (no update for too long). I want something that can tell me the video length, size, bitrate, codec, ... for avi, ogg and mkv.
Thanks
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I don't know of any "replacement" tool for GSpot but I use VideoInspector for MKV files. IMO is quite limited and not to the par of GSpot. A shame this is not updated for MKV.
There's a beta of GSpot 3 available since a few weeks, and apart from a bug that makes it crash with a GPF when you close it, it works fine and reliably determines e.g. the play length of certain vbr tracks which it failed to analyze properly before. And IIRC, the author does plan to add support for Matroska.
In the meantime, the Matroska Shell addon should help, no? ^^
In the meantime, the Matroska Shell addon should help, no? ^^
MediaInfo is better than GSpot if you're looking for something that is pretty similar
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/
supports containers, if you were wondering
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/
supports containers, if you were wondering
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The tool of my choice for identifying video attributes has been avicodec for quite a while now. The latest version (1.2beta) supports AVI and OGG, it opens MKV but cannot yet correctly identify the streams in there. As the tool is under active support (latest version only two weeks old) I am hopeful about full MKV support in the near future.
As for Matroska containers, my current workaround is to split up the container using MKVextractGUI and then apply avicodec on the parts (as I have to convert MKVs to AVIs anyway when I want to watch them on my TV set). This works even for files that VirtualDubMod cannot handle correctly.
As for Matroska containers, my current workaround is to split up the container using MKVextractGUI and then apply avicodec on the parts (as I have to convert MKVs to AVIs anyway when I want to watch them on my TV set). This works even for files that VirtualDubMod cannot handle correctly.
And I thought I was insane back when I filed those 4k CREQs...
Honestly folks - nobody needs that information. It's nice to have, but you should all stop filling in fields that (some day) might be autofilled by AoM.
I use my time to safely store my Anime. If there is a version 0.6 of AoM sometime in 2006 just use the time you saved today and get your files off the shelf and insert it into your computer and re-hash them with that new version to auto-get all the info that new version of AoM then offers.
If, in the end, there won't be a new AoM you can still add the info then.
Because who really _does_ look at the bitrates? I guess close to nobody. Took me some time to realize that too but better now than never.
Honestly folks - nobody needs that information. It's nice to have, but you should all stop filling in fields that (some day) might be autofilled by AoM.
I use my time to safely store my Anime. If there is a version 0.6 of AoM sometime in 2006 just use the time you saved today and get your files off the shelf and insert it into your computer and re-hash them with that new version to auto-get all the info that new version of AoM then offers.
If, in the end, there won't be a new AoM you can still add the info then.
Because who really _does_ look at the bitrates? I guess close to nobody. Took me some time to realize that too but better now than never.