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Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/25/06 02:34
"DanR" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>> AVI is only a container metaphor. We don't know what
>> codec was used by your camera and/or your capture
>> process?
>
> I see this "avi is only a container" mentioned many times here. At
> work we often encode (capture) to un-compressed AVI so we can freely
> manipulate the file using Sorenson etc. The un-compressed AVI file
> plays fine in Win media player. The encoding program is Digital Rapids
> Stream. We've never thought much about the actual process. So I'm
> wondering what codecs are involved. Maybe I need to dig into the
> detailed default settings of Stream or is it that when doing
> un-compressed no codec is used? Or can that not be? Just curious.
There are literally hundreds of different codecs that could
(and likely have been) used in AVI container files.
Gspot is a free utility (for MSwin) which will peek inside
an AVI file and tell you not only what codec was used to
encode it, but which codec(s) you have installed on your
computer that can decode the file. Rcommended....
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
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