xiaphan
17th April 2003, 01:27
I have a little problem. I make full-quality Divx5 rips of my various movies and have been doing so for some time in anticipation of getting a laptop and them watching them. Well, silly me, some of these rips are too high in end bitrate to play properly (such as 3000+ kb/s Robotech cartoon episodes that I was having problems with earlier). But some movies play fine, for instance my rip of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (~1200 kb/s). My question: is there a tool that will tell you the peak bitrate in a vbr avi (such as these full quality rips, or some of the old multipass rips I still have)? I know about Gspot, but as of v2.1, it only gives an average bitrate, which is useful but not really what I need.
Any advice would be appreciated.
BTW, the laptop is a Sharp Actius MM10. It has an SMI Lynx3d+ card w/ MPEG-2 decoder chip and a 1 ghz Transmeta Crusoe. Yeah yeah, not so powerful, but it weighs 1 kg and is about the size of a spiral bound notebook. Look here: here (http://www.sharpsystems.com/datasheets/PC-MM10.pdf). I use mplayer classic and ffdshow and ac3 filter (cuz ac3 audio), which does pretty well with the lower bitrate movies.
Any advice would be appreciated.
BTW, the laptop is a Sharp Actius MM10. It has an SMI Lynx3d+ card w/ MPEG-2 decoder chip and a 1 ghz Transmeta Crusoe. Yeah yeah, not so powerful, but it weighs 1 kg and is about the size of a spiral bound notebook. Look here: here (http://www.sharpsystems.com/datasheets/PC-MM10.pdf). I use mplayer classic and ffdshow and ac3 filter (cuz ac3 audio), which does pretty well with the lower bitrate movies.