Gives multiple information on multiple movies, particularly the video & audio codecs, if they are supported by the system (usign VFW or Directshow), and where to download them if not installed.
Movie types recognized : AVI, ASF/WMV, Real (.rm, .rmvb), Ogg (.ogg, .ogm), Mpeg-(S)VCD-DVD (.mpg, .vob)
Freeware for win32
Contact
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Web: http://avicodec.duby.info
Author: philippe@duby.info
You can contact me either in english or in french.
If you find a file which fails with AVIcodec, please check the "Save header for debug" and open the file again : it will generate a file.ext.hdr of 64 kb that you can send to me by email, I will study it.
You can add your own codecs to my external list (but keep me informed to allow me to add it).
You can also help me in translating the language file, which is a quite short text file.
May be developped in next releases :
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- move of the technical part in a DLL file to ease use by others developers
- recognition of audio format : MP3, OGG, WMA, ...
- ability to handle NSV, MCF, VP3, Tarkin files ?
- read description of file (name, author, date) of Real files
FAQ :
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- Icons : eye=video not viewable, speaker=sound not hearable
- Quality ratio formula (I'm open to improvments) :
. 20% video framerate (Min = 20 fps, Max = 30 fps)
. 30% video resolution (Min=TV 160*120, Max=640*480)
. 30% on video bitRate (Min = 500 Kbps, Max = 1200 Kbps)
. 20% on audio bitRate (Min = 96 Kbps, Max = 160 Kbps)
Data out of bound is forced to the lower or higher value accordingly.
- Duration information : for some Mpeg and Ogm files, this information may not be found.
- Header files : not the precise and real header, but a header for debug purpose
- "Supported" test : they are 2 levels of tests made to see if the movie will "work"
on your computer, the second level is based in asking DirectShow if it can plays the movie
correctly. The problem of DirectShow tests is that it takes a lot of time, thus is can be disabled
with the "Fast scan" option.
- Unsetting a column : you just have to delete the content of the column Edit Box