GSpot is a Windows-based freeware designed to identify codecs used in video files. In addition, the application checks if the required DirectShow filters or Video for Windows codecs are installed and configured for proper playback.
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CodecInstaller Alternatives
CodecInstaller is described as 'Ever had a movie where you could only hear the sound and there were no video? Or only video and no sound?' and is an app in the video & movies category. There are nine alternatives to CodecInstaller for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Chocolatey. The best CodecInstaller alternative is GSpot, which is free. Other great apps like CodecInstaller are MediaInfoXP, MovieScanner, AVInaptic and MediaTab.
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A simple GUI for MediaInfo, an open source tool for displaying technical information about media files.
Small utility to scan your video files and store the media details (audio, video, subtitles) into a small database. Support export end printing of data, multiple databases, external subtitle, HDR and 3D detection, etc.
AVInaptic is a program with a simple GUI (GTK +2) that analyzes file type AVI, ASF / WMV, MP4/MOV, Matroska (MKV), OGG, OGM, FLV, and shows a lot of information about technical characteristics (useful in predicting if the movie will be read from your portable player).
MediaTab provides you information of your multimedia files, like MediaInfo does, but without the need to launch an application. MediaTab use the power of MediaInfo integrating it on your operating system.
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13 VideoSpec alternativesVideoSpec is a free AppleScript studio App (Xcode 3.0 on Leopard) making use of MediaInfo CLI, MPlayer, FFmpeg, qt_tools and AtomicParsley binaries to display detailed informations on video files. Compatibility of analyzed media file with QuickTime Player v.7.6.
AVIcodec is a free multimedia file analyser for Windows.
Find avi and divx codecs, solve codecs issues.
With "Media Info+" app you can immediately extract all possible Media Details Information from every Video, Audio or Music file in your Device.
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Themonospot is a simple application that can be used to scan multimedia files and extract some informations about audio and video streams:
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