Is there a program that can read WMV / WMP files to know exactly which codec
was used to build it? I know this sounds crazy but nothing has been able to
tell me and a sneaky MPG codec got into the video compression side of editing
and now clients can no longer read WMV's without a 3rd party add-on! Ouch! I
tried VideoInspector which tells me all the video codecs on the system but
does not support reading WMP / WMV files!? Thoughts?
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MultiMedia Is Good

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:39:01 -0700, Steve F
<SteveF@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Is there a program that can read WMV / WMP files to know exactly which codec
>was used to build it? I know this sounds crazy but nothing has been able to
>tell me and a sneaky MPG codec got into the video compression side of editing
>and now clients can no longer read WMV's without a 3rd party add-on! Ouch! I
>tried VideoInspector which tells me all the video codecs on the system but
>does not support reading WMP / WMV files!? Thoughts?


I believe the ASF specification document indicates which structures
within the ASF file contain the codec identifier :

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...t/asfspec.aspx

The best place to ask for programmatic advice is the newsgroup
microsoft.public.windowsmedia.sdk

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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