unskinnyboy
24th August 2006, 05:59
Some minor disclaimers/notes before I start
I am not the author of this tool. The author of this tool is a friend of mine, who uses the online handle Wantos. I am just presenting this here on his behalf since I didn't see any mention of this tool here.
I will be glad to take back bug reports or suggestions to him, but keep in mind that I am just the messenger. Also, he told me that he is quite busy with other things now, so any future updations might take a long time.
Please don't ask for the source code since he doesn't plan to release it.
The tool is written in VB6, the language he is familiar with. So please don't turn this into a "why VB6, why not Kipple, why not Condit?" flame-war.
Thank you. Now read on...Everything below is in his words.
AVI2Clipboard is a small freeware utility that saves information from AVI videos to the clipboard.
This is handy if you want to post AVI information on websites or forums.
It's also possible to view the AVI information or to batch save the information of all AVI videos in a folder to text files.
There are two output modes: "Normal" and "Template".
With "Normal", the AVI information will be saved as a list.
With "Template", the user can make a custom template and use specific variables, which will be replaced with the AVI information.
AVI2Clipboard adds an entry to your Explorer context menu, which will only show when you right-click on a file with an .avi extension.
It's still possible that it has a very small bug, but I don't have 100 completely different computers to test it out. I've tested it on 3 computers and it seems to work fine.
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/8805/menu7no.png
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8752/softpediafreeawardf9bt.gif (http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/AVI2Clipboard-Clean-37889.html)
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9725/view2qj.png
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/5170/settings7zd.png
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Known Bugs|
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For some strange reason AVI2Clipboard does not seem to work for everybody. It works fine for 98% of the people, but for the other 2% nothing happens when they select a menu option. At this moment I haven't been able to find out if this is a problem with AVI2Clipboard or that it's a problem with the computer hardware/software of those 2%. If it doesn't work for you, then I apologize.
AVI2Clipboard cannot read segmented AVI videos created by AVI-Mux GUI. Explorer will freeze. I can check if the video is a segmented AVI video, but it slows AVI2Clipboard down quite a bit. So far I've only come across one AVI video created by AVI-Mux GUI.
The chance of having a segmented AVI video and Explorer freezing due to this is so small, that it's not worth the loss of speed on all AVI videos (unless you use AVI-Mux GUI for your videos).
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History|
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05-06-2006 (Version 2.17)
- Added better truncated detection. If an AVI video is truncated, then it will tell you how much of the video is missing.
- Removed codecs from codec database. It contained many codecs that are never used by most people, so it's pointless to include
them in the database.
- Fixed little bug where AVI2Clipboard would continue writing information to text files in the background if Batch Saving was aborted.
14-05-2006 (Version 2.15)
- Modified and deleted code. Some code was added multiple times for different purposes, which was eventually unnecessary and made
the dll bigger than it should have been (didn't affect performance though).
- Added file identification. If the file is not an AVI video, but actually another video type renamed to AVI, then AVI2Clipboard
will tell you which video type it really is (.asf, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .ogm, .rm, .swf, .vob, .wmv).
- Codec database is now internal and not a text file anymore that gets extracted every time you use AVI2Clipboard. The reason for
this is that some virus scanners (like McAfee) report the extraction of the text file as a secret/malicious script.
- Fixed problem where AVI2Clipboard would freeze during "Batch Saving" if there was an error while parsing an AVI header.
- Fixed little stupid mistake where the AVI2Clipboard menu option would not show up in the Explorer context menu if the AVI
extension (file name) contained capitals.
- AVI2Clipboard can now show AVI tags as well when viewing the information (if available), like Copyright, Genre and Comments.
- Added Packed Bitstream detection.
- Added TwoCC (hex) for audio codecs.
- Added Constant Bitrate (CBR) and Variable Bitrate (VBR) detection.
- Updated codec database (417 video and 166 audio codecs).
24-03-2006 (Version 2.00)
- Completely re-written
- Changed menu. All options are now shown in a sub-menu, to prevent having a huge context menu when right-clicking on an AVI video
- Added option to view AVI information
- Added options to batch save the AVI information to a single text file or to separate text files
- Solved registry problem where AVI2Clipboard would not work properly if certain video/audio players were installed
11-01-2006 (Version 1.24)
- Added Quality Factor
04-01-2006 (Version 1.17)
- Removed ASCii
- Added file sizes in Bytes and KB
- Added Setup menu
- Added Template support
30-12-2005 (Version 1.00)
- First Release
If you have an older version installed, make sure you uninstall it first, before you install the latest version or else you'll get an error message saying that AVI2Clipboard.dll can not be replaced. Close ALL open windows before uninstalling or the dll will not be deleted, because Explorer keeps it in use.
[Download] (http://wantos.mosaiegh.net/download.php?id=1)
Website: http://wantos.mosaiegh.net
(MoDs: Please move this to the proper forum if this isn't the one. Thanks.)
I am not the author of this tool. The author of this tool is a friend of mine, who uses the online handle Wantos. I am just presenting this here on his behalf since I didn't see any mention of this tool here.
I will be glad to take back bug reports or suggestions to him, but keep in mind that I am just the messenger. Also, he told me that he is quite busy with other things now, so any future updations might take a long time.
Please don't ask for the source code since he doesn't plan to release it.
The tool is written in VB6, the language he is familiar with. So please don't turn this into a "why VB6, why not Kipple, why not Condit?" flame-war.
Thank you. Now read on...Everything below is in his words.
AVI2Clipboard is a small freeware utility that saves information from AVI videos to the clipboard.
This is handy if you want to post AVI information on websites or forums.
It's also possible to view the AVI information or to batch save the information of all AVI videos in a folder to text files.
There are two output modes: "Normal" and "Template".
With "Normal", the AVI information will be saved as a list.
With "Template", the user can make a custom template and use specific variables, which will be replaced with the AVI information.
AVI2Clipboard adds an entry to your Explorer context menu, which will only show when you right-click on a file with an .avi extension.
It's still possible that it has a very small bug, but I don't have 100 completely different computers to test it out. I've tested it on 3 computers and it seems to work fine.
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/8805/menu7no.png
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8752/softpediafreeawardf9bt.gif (http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/AVI2Clipboard-Clean-37889.html)
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9725/view2qj.png
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/5170/settings7zd.png
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Known Bugs|
-------------
For some strange reason AVI2Clipboard does not seem to work for everybody. It works fine for 98% of the people, but for the other 2% nothing happens when they select a menu option. At this moment I haven't been able to find out if this is a problem with AVI2Clipboard or that it's a problem with the computer hardware/software of those 2%. If it doesn't work for you, then I apologize.
AVI2Clipboard cannot read segmented AVI videos created by AVI-Mux GUI. Explorer will freeze. I can check if the video is a segmented AVI video, but it slows AVI2Clipboard down quite a bit. So far I've only come across one AVI video created by AVI-Mux GUI.
The chance of having a segmented AVI video and Explorer freezing due to this is so small, that it's not worth the loss of speed on all AVI videos (unless you use AVI-Mux GUI for your videos).
--------
History|
--------
05-06-2006 (Version 2.17)
- Added better truncated detection. If an AVI video is truncated, then it will tell you how much of the video is missing.
- Removed codecs from codec database. It contained many codecs that are never used by most people, so it's pointless to include
them in the database.
- Fixed little bug where AVI2Clipboard would continue writing information to text files in the background if Batch Saving was aborted.
14-05-2006 (Version 2.15)
- Modified and deleted code. Some code was added multiple times for different purposes, which was eventually unnecessary and made
the dll bigger than it should have been (didn't affect performance though).
- Added file identification. If the file is not an AVI video, but actually another video type renamed to AVI, then AVI2Clipboard
will tell you which video type it really is (.asf, .mkv, .mov, .mpg, .ogm, .rm, .swf, .vob, .wmv).
- Codec database is now internal and not a text file anymore that gets extracted every time you use AVI2Clipboard. The reason for
this is that some virus scanners (like McAfee) report the extraction of the text file as a secret/malicious script.
- Fixed problem where AVI2Clipboard would freeze during "Batch Saving" if there was an error while parsing an AVI header.
- Fixed little stupid mistake where the AVI2Clipboard menu option would not show up in the Explorer context menu if the AVI
extension (file name) contained capitals.
- AVI2Clipboard can now show AVI tags as well when viewing the information (if available), like Copyright, Genre and Comments.
- Added Packed Bitstream detection.
- Added TwoCC (hex) for audio codecs.
- Added Constant Bitrate (CBR) and Variable Bitrate (VBR) detection.
- Updated codec database (417 video and 166 audio codecs).
24-03-2006 (Version 2.00)
- Completely re-written
- Changed menu. All options are now shown in a sub-menu, to prevent having a huge context menu when right-clicking on an AVI video
- Added option to view AVI information
- Added options to batch save the AVI information to a single text file or to separate text files
- Solved registry problem where AVI2Clipboard would not work properly if certain video/audio players were installed
11-01-2006 (Version 1.24)
- Added Quality Factor
04-01-2006 (Version 1.17)
- Removed ASCii
- Added file sizes in Bytes and KB
- Added Setup menu
- Added Template support
30-12-2005 (Version 1.00)
- First Release
If you have an older version installed, make sure you uninstall it first, before you install the latest version or else you'll get an error message saying that AVI2Clipboard.dll can not be replaced. Close ALL open windows before uninstalling or the dll will not be deleted, because Explorer keeps it in use.
[Download] (http://wantos.mosaiegh.net/download.php?id=1)
Website: http://wantos.mosaiegh.net
(MoDs: Please move this to the proper forum if this isn't the one. Thanks.)