Video File Type Discovery
Johnny’s wife appears to have been a bit too helpful:
I was wondering if you knew of any kind of program that would give the extensions of video files. I was in the process of backing up all my dvd’s onto my home server and the wife thought the files would be prettier with out extensions and instead of hiding the extensions she went ahead and deleted them.. problem is that although a majority were .avi’s not all were and I dont know what they were.. so I was wondering if there was a program that would go through and read the headers and tell me what extension should follow the name. Thanks for any help at all.
Johnny
Well, Johnny, there may be a quick answer to your problem. The GSpot codec information appliance (don’t look at me, I didn’t name it) is an excellent tool to determine a whole pile of things about your video files. Simply download the latest version of the application, extract the zipped file and run the executable file. Then, open the video files in question using GSpot and the information that you are looking for is in the Container box on the left side.

As you can see from the screen shot above, this is a DivX encoded file in an AVI container. So the extension would be AVI.
Hope this helps, Johnny.
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