[BNM] Sound File Geeks...

[Grant Turner]

Bah - bit of trek from Muswell Hill to the FOW! Glad to be of assistance
though.

Bloody Apple - honestly...

:-)

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Mike Pelton <Mike at pollytiles.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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