gHacks technology news » video inspector http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Video Inspector Displays Video Codecs Information http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/18/video-inspector-displays-video-codecs-information/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/18/video-inspector-displays-video-codecs-information/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 11:05:11 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/18/video-inspector-displays-video-codecs-information/ microsoft windowsIt sometimes can be quite difficulty to find out why a video is not playing properly on a computer system. This is even more true for inexperienced users who usually solve the problem by installing yet another codec package. That’s obviously not the best way of dealing with the matter as the installation of codec packs can lead to incompatibilities and system errors. Experienced users work with video players like KMPlayer or VLC that play almost every video file out of the box.

Users who swear on video players that rely on system wide codecs on the other hand can use a software program like Video Inspector that analyses video codecs and displays the information needed to play the video on the computer system.

The tool can be integrated in the Windows Explorer context menu to display information about the current video file directly. The alternative is to use the interface to browse the computer system for supported video files. It covers the popular AVI, Matroska, MPEG I, MPEG II and QuickTime containers which means it cannot identify other video formats like wmv.

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Information about the video codec and audio codec are displayed immediately after loading a video into the software program. Various information about the video are displayed including the codecs used. Probably more important than that is the visual aid that is telling the user if the proper codecs are installed to play the video. A download button is present in case they are not to immediately download them to the computer system (using codecsdb.com).

Video Inspector comes with a few extra tools and options that include displaying all installed audio and video codecs, burning or converting the video to DVD, extracting the audio, splitting the video or changing the FourCC.

There has been some bad blood lately about products published by KC Softwares as they started adding Relevant Knowledge to their software programs. Relevant Knowledge actively monitors a user’s browsing and purchasing on the Internet. Many spyware and antivirus companies therefor classify Relevant Knowledge as spyware.

It has to be noted that Relevant Knowledge is only included in the full builds of the program. A lite version is provided on the same download page that does not include this component.

Viable alternatives to Video Inspector are G-Spot, AviCodec, Media Info or Codec Installer.

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