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  Determining what compression settings were used

  Posted by Sue Lawson on January 7, 2008 at 2:25 am

  Am I able to determine what compression settings were used on a project that I was given on a flash drive?

  I keep thinking that there should be a way of doing this…

  Thanks in advance.

  — Sue

  Craig Seeman replied 14 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Curious Turtle

  January 7, 2008 at 10:35 am

  Hi Sue,

  It all depends what sort of wrapper the file has. If it’s a Quicktime movie, just open it up in Quicktime player then hit Apple-I (Ctrl-I on Windows) and up pops the main information.

  If it’s something that can’t be opened in Quicktime Player, then give GSpot Codec Information Appliance a go. It handles a number of other wrappers and will tell you which codec was used and so forth. I should add that this is Windows only so far as I know.

  Hope this helps,
  Ben

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  Sue Lawson

  January 8, 2008 at 3:40 am

  Thanks Ben!

  — Sue
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  Cindy Towsley

  November 1, 2011 at 4:49 pm

  This is a great utility, I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now.

  But, it’s a little out of date. Does anyone know of something similar that’s more current? I often receive client files (like today) where a simple edit is required, and knowing what compression was used on the original file would speed up the rendering process/take out some guesswork on my part.
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  Craig Seeman

  November 1, 2011 at 5:37 pm

  To look at bitrate over time I use Bitrate Viewer (Windows)
  https://www.winhoros.de/docs/bitrate-viewer/

  and for codec and other metadata details I use Media Info (cross platform).
  https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

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