Tool to see what version/options were used in encoding?

[sauroneru]

I have a hardware player (Sigma 8500), and it plays most XviD files fine, but not all. I would imagine it has problems with GMC, Qpel, and maybe some versions of XviD. Is there a tool (similar to GSpot) that would tell me what version/encoding options were used on a file?

[Ranma-kun]

Originally posted by sauroneru
I have a hardware player (Sigma 8500), and it plays most XviD files fine, but not all. I would imagine it has problems with GMC, Qpel, and maybe some versions of XviD. Is there a tool (similar to GSpot) that would tell me what version/encoding options were used on a file?

There is a tool called AviCheck that tells you if qpel, gmc or b-frames were used, but only that.

http://peque.homeftp.org/~fer/avicheck.zip

Sorry for my bad english.

[yakima]

if you want to get some version info, open the avi in a hexeditor (virtualdubmod has one) and search for xvid (or divx); the third occurence will give you something like xvid 09 or xvid 26 (some more zeros) - the latter one is given for 1.0rc2 (maybe for others as well; haven't figured it out yet). same goes for divx (it's build487 and similar).

[Koepi]

Those are the bitstream version numbers - necessary for "bug detection" and for applying workarounds. So we will detect the "edge-bug with non-mod-16 resolutions" very soon and apply workarounds during decoding for it (sysKin is working on that). [Before someone asks: the SimpleIDCT bitstreams don't have a version of their own, so it's not possible to detect that DCT that way. For XviD-1.1 we plan to introduce a playback-IDCT-switch to choose the right one.]

Regards
Koepi