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Asked: 2026-05-12T15:13:31+00:00

I have a video file I don’t know what format it is. Is there

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I have a video file I don’t know what format it is.

Is there a software can analyze what kind of video container / compression format it uses?

I tried Gspot, but it doesn’t work (Show “Unknown format”)

I am sure the file is using some kind of public standard codec because I can use a media converter convert it to avi or mpg4 file.

Thanks in advance.

Here is the picture of Gspot, but it doesn’t show anything:
alt text http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2675/gspota.png

When I press 1, it says DShow reports error.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use ffpmeg (Windows builds here) with the -i switch:

    ffmpeg -i myfile.avi

    FFmpeg version SVN-r19159-Sherpya, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
    libavutil 50. 3. 0 / 50. 3. 0
    libavcodec 52.30. 2 / 52.30. 2
    libavformat 52.34. 0 / 52.34. 0
    libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
    libavfilter 0. 5. 0 / 0. 5. 0
    libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
    libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
    built on Jun 12 2009 04:25:02, gcc: 4.5.0 20090517 (experimental)
    Input #0, avi, from ‘myfile.avi’:
    Duration: 00:00:00.41, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 363 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: rawvideo, pal8, 60×49, 12 tbr, 12 tbn, 12 tbc
    At least one output file must be specified

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