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Bug 611169 - Add information about container format
Add information about container format
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: Properties page
2.29.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-26 10:56 UTC by Fabian Greffrath
Modified: 2011-04-04 16:30 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Fabian Greffrath 2010-02-26 10:56:29 UTC 
Hi,

when playing a video file, Totem shows some useful information in the Properties tab of the side bar. However, it currently only tells about the audio and video codecs used in the video file, but not about the file's container format. I think it's important to distinguish between codecs and containers and help educate people about the difference. For example, most people believe they can play a DIVX file, although they actually play an AVI file that contains a video stream encoded with DIVX and an audio stream encoded with whatever. 

IMHO MediaInfo is doing it right [tm], although the UI is of course utterly cluttered, but I think you get the point from the last three screen shots: <http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/ScreenShots/GUI_Main>.

Cheers,
Fabian
Comment 1 Ondra Pelech 2010-08-22 02:23:27 UTC 
I think it's a great idea to add info about container format.

Indicating whether the currently played file is seekable would be good too (correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that depends just on the container format).

(this is a general bug, not Windows specific)
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2011-04-04 16:30:31 UTC 
Done in GNOME 3.2.