![]() ![]() ![]() And if it's just using a codec that you don't have installed, then you can quickly grab the latest version, and hopefully fix your playback problems right away. If the file is broken - a missing video stream, say - then you'll see that immediately, and won't have to waste time tweaking your own system. Just open your audio or video file in MediaInfo, and you'll see lots of technical information about it: video and audio stream type, codec, aspect ratio, frames per second, sample rate and more. How about installing a new codec pack? Troubleshooting media problems is tricky, and you could spend hours trying to figure out the problem. Maybe using another media player would help. You could try downloading the file again, just in case it was corrupted. So it's particularly frustrating that it won't play. Then right-click menu option to click to get the info is, who would have guessed it, "Media Info".It's taken a very long time, but you've finally found and downloaded that audio or video file you've been looking for. After loading an audio or video file, it can be accessed via the right-click menu or by pressing "Alt & J". ![]() To analyze other media types, short of starting the application manually, the only right-click alternatives left to users seem to be long-winded fiddling along the "Open with" or "Send to" routes (it's possible I missed a faster method, of course, but I was too lazy to invest enormous amounts of time and effort trying to make Vista work for me and gave up on it very quickly).īTW, (the IMHO excellent) KMPlayer apparently uses a version of the same engine to display media information. In Vista, unfortunately, as so often, intuitive and quick has been abolished and direct right-click access works only sporadically, for a limited number of formats. ![]() Very easy and fast to use too, at least in Win XP, where the Windows Explorer right-click menu has a "Media Info" entry in case of nearly all media formats - which is intuitive and fast, the way most of us like to work, I guess. The most informative of all freeware media analysis tools I'm aware of. ![]()
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