[OT] Determining Video Formats

[James Pifer]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:16 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > I am looking for a way to look at an AVI file and see how it was encoded 
> > with enough detail that I could reproduce the process using transcode or 
> > mencoder. I have a media server (D-Link DSM520) that plays most videos 
> > absolutely perfectly. Some, though, it has trouble keeping audio sync. I 
> > would like to compare the videos that work without issue to those that 
> > have issues to see if I can identify what the differentiator might be. I 
> > should then be able to identify those with problems and re-transcode 
> > them to look like the files without the problem. That is the goal, anyway.
> > 
> > I suspect this is real easy but I am just not finding it and I am 
> > completely Googled out. Any pointers in the right direction would be 
> > much appreciated!
> 
> The tovid package ("yum install tovid") has a command called idvid,
> which might be at least part of what you want.
> 
> poc
> 

I was/am in a similar situation trying to figure out a way to transcode
videos for my son's Zune. So far the only tool that has worked is crappy
MS Movie Maker. Anyway, I found this windows tool which I think is free:
GSpot. Just google and it should be the first thing returned. 

I will check out tovid as well!

HTH,
James