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DESCRIPTION
VideoSpec 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 is provided with indication on the installation status of the displayed QuickTime Component and its download link as well as compatibility with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV. Suggestion on alternate movie player to QuickTime Player is proposed and preview of video files is available using mplayer binary tool. Furthermore, integration of Bitrate Pro adds calculation capacity with multimedia files.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.8.2: MediaInfo (v. 0.7.24), ffmpeg (SVN-r20440) and mplayer (SVN-r29815) tools updated. Bugs fixed for compatibility with Snow Leopard. Contextual menu added in Finder ("Open with" command). New file formats of Final Cut Pro 6 added. Detailed Ogg Vorbis formats. Report backup in html format added. Compatibility with iPod/iPhone/AppleTV devices in case of direct copy. Bugs fixed in display and data rate selection menu of Bitrate Pro.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Developer:houdini
Downloads:12,880
  - Version d/l:599
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:23 Nov 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Jul 4 2009
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FORMICA  This is hands-down the best media info app available today, and it's free! I don't have time to go into detail about VideoSpec now, but I just wrote a MacUpdate review of MediaInfo Mac 0.7.17.3 which naturally compares that app with VideoSpec because it is the best of breed. You can find it by typing "VideoSpec" into the search field at the top of this page.

Seriously, if you work with video media, and especially if you're doing any kind of conversion from one filetype/container/codec/framerate/etc. to another, download this and MediaInfo Mac (and any others you can find), then run them both on the same video file side-by-side, and you'll immediately see why VideoSpec is an order of magnitude better.

BTW, I don't know any of these developers. Like you, I wanted to know which was better for my purposes, so I downloaded 4 different ones and VideoSpec won fair and square right off the blocks. It helped VideSpec quite a bit that it's developer came out with its most recent version (0.7.5) right in the middle of my evaluation because he added an in-app movie player, reports exporting, minimum and maximum bitrate stats for vids using a variable bitrate method, and the in-app integration of the Bitrate Pro bitrate calculator, which reduces by one the number of apps I need to have open when working with videos.

Oh, did I mention that VideoSpec is FREE?  
(Version 0.7.5)

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Aug 30 2009

SECTION8  thanks for the wonderful review! very helpful when trying to decide what to download  
(Version 0.7.5)

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Nov 3 2007

MACROXX  Great tool which works nicely.

Features I would like to see in future versions :

- the possibility to compare the specs of two files

- the possibility to save the specs of a file as text

Keep up the good work and thank you !

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(Version 0.5.7)

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Oct 22 2007

DRAW  10.4 MB. Good start ;-)  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Sep 28 2009

TREADMAN  Bug: Cannot deselect Channels Position in Audio Parameters.  
(Version 0.8)

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Sep 29 2009

HOUDINI  You are right. I will release a minor update fixing this bug.  
(Version 0.8)

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Sep 28 2009

HOUDINI  Thank you for this info.   
(Version 0.8)

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Sep 28 2009

BIDULE  Nomore Tiger compatible, too badÂ… "Applescript errorÂ…"

Console : "crashdump[351]: mplayer crashed"

Log : "Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/***/Desktop/Applis/VideoSpec.app/Contents/Resources/mplayer

Reason: Incompatible library version: mplayer requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 5.0.0"

Thanks for previous versions.  
(Version 0.8)

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Nov 25 2007

TREADMAN  On the Video parameters screen, "height" is misspelled.  
(Version 0.5.7)

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Nov 25 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  You should contact the developer via the developer's site.  
(Version 0.5.7)

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Nov 26 2007

HOUDINI  Thank you for pointing me this mispelling. Will be fixed in the next release.  
(Version 0.5.7)

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Oct 22 2007

TREADMAN  A good start. If you could output this information...  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 23 2007

HOUDINI  Have you tried to analyze an H264/aac mp4 video file? For BILL B it was a problem related to mplayer. He solved that by changing mplayer file in the bundle. I was unable to reproduce this bug on two different computers (Tiger on a G3 iMac and a intel iMac).

houdini  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 1 2007

BILL B  VideoSpec couldn't handle a h.264/aac MPEG-4 file.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

HOUDINI  I am the developer of VideoSpec. It is quite strange you got no result with an h264/aac MPEG-4 file. I have tested several .mp4, .mov containing h264/aac with VideoSpec without problems. May be your file was corrupted.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

BILL B  Nope. It was created using QuickTime Pro.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

HOUDINI  OK. I have just tested .mp4 files produced from DV file with Quicktime Pro without problem... Could you send me a sample of your unrecognised file and the encoding profile?  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

BILL B  I can send you a short clip. What's your email address?  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

HOUDINI  You can contact me from my web site: click the Houdini icon at the bottom of the main page.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

BILL B  I didn't see an email link on your homepage. BTW, I made a mistake in my 2nd post: The video was created using Handbrake version 0.91 (not yet released). It does play perfectly in QuickTime, nonetheless.

The clip I produced using QuickTime Pro gives the same VideoSpec error message as the original MPEG-4 file.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 1 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  "click the Houdini icon at the bottom of the main page" at the developer's site.  
(Version 0.5.5)

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Oct 23 2007
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BILL B  Version 0.56 has the same problem as version 0.55: The mplayer binary file in VideoSpec won't work, at least on my Intel iMac. I copied mplayer from the MoKgVm2DVD program into VideoSpec and it now runs fine, albeit slowly.   
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 23 2007

HOUDINI  OK. Could you tell me what you get when you run VideoSpec mplayer version in Terminal ? Thanks.

houdini  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 23 2007

HOUDINI  I mean the original VideoSpec mplayer version... Thanks in advance.

houdini  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 23 2007

BILL B  Terminal responds with the following:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/bill/Desktop/VideoSpec_0.5.6/VideoSpec.app/Contents/Resources/mplayer

Reason: image not found

Trace/BPT trap  
(Version 0.5.6)

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Oct 23 2007

HOUDINI  Thank you Bill !! The message means that a dynamic library is not loaded. I can solve that.

houdini  
(Version 0.5.6)

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