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May 18, 2006
GSpot AVI Codec Information Appliance
If you're like me, there's no telling the number of different formats of audio and video files you find making their way to your PC's desktop. Captured or produced by new gadgets, sent by friends, or grabbed from websites, these media files usually play in some app I have installed, but not always.
When you just can't figure out exactly what that odd AVI file is, grab the GSpot Codec Information Appliance. GSpot, a free app, first analyzes the codecs installed on your machine. Then, you point it to an AVI file and it tells you the 4CC video codec info, audio codec (if any), bitrates, and various other interesting and/or useful tidbits. If there's no codec on your system to play the file, GSpot will even point you in the right direction to get one.
Very nifty...thanks, Steve G!
Posted by Craig in Computing
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