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Tim Murray

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Dec 27, 2003, 2:32:04 PM12/27/03
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There are a few apps for Windows that can tell you which codec was used for a
multimedia file. Anone know of anything similar for Mac OS 10.2?

Charles Martin

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Dec 29, 2003, 1:11:03 AM12/29/03
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In article <0001HW.BC134864...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>,
Tim Murray <no-...@thankyou.com> wrote:

> There are a few apps for Windows that can tell you which codec was used for a
> multimedia file. Anone know of anything similar for Mac OS 10.2?
>

Quicktime does this, as does VLC and many other utilities.
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Tim Murray

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Dec 29, 2003, 11:05:09 AM12/29/03
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 1:11:03 -0500, Charles Martin wrote
(in message <rubbish-842CDD...@newsr3.tampabay.rr.com>):

> Quicktime does this, as does VLC and many other utilities.

Umm, what am I missing? QT can't do it if it can't open the file. And I see
nothing relevant in VLC except for a Window > Info menu item, but that opens
into a dialog that includes, at least on my 10.2.8 system, a single drop-down
field containing only one item (General), which says only the file name and
path.

The issue is that the tools I have -- QT, VLC, MPlayer, DixX Doctor -- work
only on files they can open.

Charles Martin

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Jan 2, 2004, 4:53:22 AM1/2/04
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In article <0001HW.BC15BAE5...@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>,
Tim Murray <no-...@thankyou.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 1:11:03 -0500, Charles Martin wrote
> (in message <rubbish-842CDD...@newsr3.tampabay.rr.com>):
>
> > Quicktime does this, as does VLC and many other utilities.
>
> Umm, what am I missing? QT can't do it if it can't open the file.

Well, you didn't mention that before, did you?

But if it CAN open the file, it will tell you what codec was used for
the audio and video.

> The issue is that the tools I have -- QT, VLC, MPlayer, DixX Doctor -- work
> only on files they can open.

Assuming you've loaded the DivX codecs out there (3vix and DivX 5.1),
there should be damn few movie files that won't play on VLC/MPlayer.

If the problem files are MPEG files, there's something called MPEG Info
X 0.2 that will tell you what codecs are involved without trying to open
it.

Tim Murray

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Jan 15, 2004, 9:25:01 PM1/15/04
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Thanks, I think this is more along the lines I'm looking for ... I can't
tell right now cuz the Mac is in the shop.


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