Hey guys. This tutorial shows how to use Gspot. I'm not too familiar with the program myself, so this tutorial was made with research that I did using google. For those of you who do use Gspot, if there's anything that I missed or could have explained better, please let me know and I'll add it or get it fixed as soon as possible.

First download GSpot from hXXp://www.headbands.com/gspot the GSpot homepage and extract it to an appropriate location. There is no setup, so a program such as WinRar or WinZip will be needed. To make it easier to run Gspot, I would recommend right clicking on the program icon, then send it to the desktop as a shortcut. This way you can always access Gspot from the desktop.

There are two ways that you can use Gspot.

1. Open Gspot Directly
2. Right click the avi file, run with Gspot.


1. Open Gspot Directly

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A. Open Gspot by double-clicking the program icon. If you did not send it to the desktop as a shortcut, then you will be able to find it in the folder that you extracted the program to.
B. Once GSpot opens, either click the "..." button, click File, then "Open", or press CTRL+O. This brings up a dialog window, allowing you to select an AVI file you wish to analyze.

2. Right click the avi file, Run with Gspot

This is a very quick and easy way to open the file with Gspot. All you have to do is right click the avi file and click run with Gspot. You will have to add Gspot to the avi file associations after you first install the program.

* Note: These instructions are for Windows 2000, XP. Other OSs may not support this feature.





B. Click browse. Make sure that "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is not checked.

C. Find and select the Gspot application. It will be located in the folder it was extracted to.
D. Click ok until you are out of the menu.


Windows now knows that Gspot can open AVI files. Now all you have to do is right click the file, run with Gspot.

3. What the Information Displayed by Gspot Means

Its easy to open a file with Gspot, but you also need to know what that information means. Hopefully this will help.


4. Saving Information to Notepad

If you release a lot of movies, it can be useful to be able to copy and paste the avi information in your release.

1. Make a notepad file in the folder that you unzipped Gspot into. Name it gspot-info.txt. Include the following information in it.

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GSpot v2.70a avi file details:rn
------------------------------rn
Filename.........: %FILE_NAME%rn
Filesize.....: %FILE_SIZE% bytesrn
Runtime......: %VIDEO_DURATION% (%VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT% frames)rn
Video Codec..: %VIDEO_CODEC_NAME% (%VIDEO_MPEG4_BVOP%/%VIDEO_MPEG4_QPEL%/%VIDEO_MPEG4_GMC%)rn
Video Bitrate: %VIDEO_BITRATE% kbpsrn
Aspect Ratio.: %VIDEO_SIZE_X%x%VIDEO_SIZE_Y% (%VIDEO_DAR%)rn
Framerate....: %VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC% fpsrn
Audio Codec..: %AUDIO_CODEC%rn
Audio Bitrate: %AUDIO_BITRATE%kbps %AUDIO_CHANNEL_COUNT%ch %AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE% %AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE%Hzrn
Language.....: English



2. Open the Gspot program and press: Options > Export

3. Mark: Enable Exporting

4. Click Format then choose: "Custom, Use the format file below"

5. Under Output Files mark "Allow Overwrite" & "One file per Avi (auto name & location)"

6. Press OK.

Now you should be able to get Gspot info on your Avi by simple find the Avi you want the info on with Gspot and if you did it right you should have a notepad in the same folder as the Avi that looks like this: