video formats

[flyingduckie]

i didn't know exactly where to put this, so i put it here.

i have a small media player, but it's foreign, so i don't know what kind of encoding is needed to play the files on it. the model number of the player doesnt match up on anything on the internet, and it's a no-name sort of brand. it recognizes asf and avi files, so i assume that these two can be encoded in whatever it recognizes. (i tried it on a converter and it showed up as yyyy with two dots on top of each y)

i have ONE file that works which came with the player, so if anyone knows a program that can detect lots of different types of encoding, please help!

 

[Yeti]

Try gspot. Being an avi doesn't mean much (its a container like ogm and mkv), what matters is the codec used to encode it.

 

[flyingduckie]

it used an mpeg-4 decoder, (im testing on an .asf file btw) but are there also different types of mpeg-4's? and is there something to test that also?

 

[flyingduckie]

hold on, is MP4S a type? it showed up during my test from that program.