[BNM] Sound File Geeks...

[Mike Pelton]

Many thanks for the pointers to MediaInfo - it leads me to suspect there's
something very Apple-y about the encoding, even though it's officially
MPEG1(3).

Anyhoo, given that the sun's coming out, as soon as Andy's won the tennis
I'll be in the Fortune - feel free to claim your beers!

Cheers

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Grant Turner
Sent: 03 July 2009 11:21
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Sound File Geeks...

Does Media Info give any clues?

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Mike Pelton <Mike at pollytiles.co.uk> wrote:

> So... thanks for the suggestions guys but the plot thickens. GSpot and VLC
> can't read it while Audacity can, but Audacity doesn't offer any codec
info
> (unless I'm being dumb which would be unprecedented ha ha).
>
> Any other thoughts anyone?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Ian Ozsvald
> Sent: 02 July 2009 18:51
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Sound File Geeks...
>
> Try also GSpot (Windows only)
> http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
> which gives you the lowdown on video+audio codecs.  I'm not sure if it
> only does audio files (can't see why not though), it pulls out the
> codecs for movies just fine and high-lights whatever it thinks is
> missing.
>
> QuickTime Pro (paid-for) also has a nice Media tab that explains
> what's going on, though that's presumably just the same info that
> VLC/mplayer/Audacity will expose.
>
> i.
>
> 2009/7/2 Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk>:
> > It probably uses VBR or something (Variable Bit Rate).
> >
> > Try audacity or VLC. They should give you more detail about how the file
> > is encoded than you'll ever need.
> >
> > Ant
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 17:51 +0100, Mike Pelton wrote:
> >
> >> Am embarrassed not to know the answer to this one myself, so please be
> >> gentle....
> >>
> >> This is all about "how do I find out which codecs are being used to
play
> a
> >> file?"...
> >>
> >> I have an MP3 file which plays in Windows Media Player BUT it won't
> render
> >> in GraphEdit, the very splendid and usually infallible DirectShow
> utility
> >> that automatically wires codecs together by negotiating the input and
> output
> >> types of each one.
> >>
> >> What I need to be able to do (in code) is to create a string of codecs
> that
> >> will play it.
> >>
> >> So.. given that I have all the codecs I need (which we know because the
> file
> >> plays in WMP) how do I work out what's being used to render the file by
> WMP
> >> (or anything else that will render it)?
> >>
> >> The file is the very splendid London Underground
> >> (http://solo2.abac.com/themole/london_underground_song.htm) (DON'T give
> this
> >> to the kids or play it in the office out loud) - the reason it's
> significant
> >> for me is that there's clearly a common class of MP3 files that are
> encoded
> >> in some way I haven't seen before and I'm developing code
> (www.Vixer.co.uk)
> >> that needs to be able to unpick MP3's.
> >>
> >> Any words of wisdom very welcome and the normal consultancy fee (a
pint)
> >> will be payable to the first N helpful replies (N to be determined by
> how
> >> many pints I've had already).
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
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