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DESCRIPTION
Videospec is an AppleScript Studio app using mplayer, ffmpeg, MediaInfo CLI and qt_tools binaries to display 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. Suggestion on alternate movie player to QuickTime Player is displayed. Furthermore, integration of Bitrate Pro adds calculation capacity with multimedia files.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.7.5:
  • This version is only compatible with Leopard (Mac OS 10.5).
  • Bitrate Pro integration in VideoSpec.
  • Apple style toolbar ;-).
  • Better handling of window switching. "Save Report" command in File menu simplified.
  • Update of MediaInfo CLI (v. 0.7.12).
  • Preview bug fixed.
  • Minimum and maximum frame rate added in case of variable frame rate.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5


SCREENSHOT

Developer:houdini
Downloads:9,250
  - Version d/l:1,309
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:06 Apr 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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VideoSpec User Reviews (7 posts)Write A Review
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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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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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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 !

.  
(Version 0.5.7)

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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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Oct 22 2007

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

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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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