If you look to the lower left hand side, you will see the audio codec name is also visible.
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You will notice that right underneath this is tells me also that "Codec(s) are Installed" - this is because I have the Koepi Xvid Codec installed on my system. The actual codec name for the video is the first detail under video on the right hand side of the program. Once you have opened a file you will notice the large amount of information that this program can offer to you about your video files. Open a video file You can either click File -> Open or the button beside the Path field to open your source video file. For now it is all blank so you need to open a file in it. On the left there is information on the container (like AVI), any metadata that might be read from the file and the Audio stream data. On the right, we have the video stream data. There are two columns containing information on video files that you open with the software. We won't check out all the menus that the program offers, but we'll just run over the layout first. GSpot Interface OK so the first time you look at GSpot it looks a bit too busy, but it certainly is not complicated and is a very useful app. Note: AviCodec can also give you information on more video formats than GSpot currently supports.
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GSpot will allow us to open our AVI files, which it will analyze to determine what codecs are needed for the video and audio streams and other information about them such as aspect ratio, resolution, bitrate, sampling frequency, framerate & the number of channels of audio in the source.
#G SPOT VIDEO CODEC INSTALL#
Introduction & Requirements GSpot - Download and install this freeware.
#G SPOT VIDEO CODEC HOW TO#
A media player, such as WMP (Windows Media Player) may require you install a codec in order to play a video file and in this guide you will see how to check a video file with Gspot to determine what you need to play it (and more useful information). This is where a Codec comes in to play ( Coder / Decoder).
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The video and audio tracks in a file have been " encoded" or "coded", and in order to play the file back you need to "decode" it. If you have received a video files, such as an AVI file, but cannot play it, it may be because you do not have the appropriate codecs installed on your computer.