Gspot

Introduction
Gspot is a small, free utility which is used to analyze videos. What you do, is you input a video and Gspot will analyze it and give you technical feedback about things such as codecs used, compression ratios, video framerate etc. There are a huge number of technical details that I don’t really feel like talking about here; however, I believe that if you really are into this type of stuff, you will absolutely have no problem at dealing with Gspot.

Gspot Installation:
You can download Gspot from: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ .

Let’s go through the installation steps:

You will notice that instead of coming packed inside an installer, gspot is contained inside a .zip file.

Here’s what you need to do:

• First of all you need to unzip all the contents of the .zip file in a folder; you can do this using an application such as winzip. I recommend you to create a special folder for Gspot or to extract the contents inside a folder that contains similar utilities.
• Apart from that, all you can do is to create a shortcut on your desktop and then use the shortcut whenever you want to launch Gspot.

It wasn’t really hard, was it? Now let’s have a look at how we can put Gspot into use.
How to use Gspot:

First, you need to launch Gspot. If you have created a shortcut on your desktop you can simply open it from there; alternatively, you should go to the folder where you have extracted Gspot and execute it from there.

This is what gspot initially looks like:

• Take a look at the area right below the purple gspot logo; it’s the ‘File’ area. In the path field, click on the “…” button and select a video file; then, click “Open”.

As soon as you have done that, you should be looking at something that looks like this:

• As you can see, gspot has filled all the fields with detailed technical information about the video that you have loaded. You can use all this information for various reasons but just to give you a rough idea of why you might need this, you can use the information to determine exactly what codecs you need in order to watch a video.

Conclusion
Are you heavily involved with digital videos, video codecs, video compression, video formats and all the technical details that come along with those terms? Well, if that’s the case then Gspot is definitely a hot utility for all you; what’s best, it’s free! I believe that there’s not much more that I could really say here; the bottom line is that gspot is possibly the best solution for you if you are capable of understanding what each term means.