Originally posted by racketboy@Oct 20, 2003 @ 01:30 AM
in explorer, right click on the file and select properties.
then go to the summary tab.
it will tell you what codec it needs
Actually this is not an accurate method of determining exactly what codec was used. Its only really an issue with xvid (certain builds) and uncommon codecs, where it lists it as something generic or weird. Also with some xvid builds, it can't be properly decoded by other builds, but I haven't seen that much.
Anyway, I recommend GSpot for that sort of thing. BUT, as Akuma said, it lists the codec - which is DivX. Easy enough.