You will find a good support in these (and other) cases with the Media Analyst software, a tool for the detailed analysis of video clips and audio files of nearly all formats, designs and tastes. Though this does not yet make your computer an all-you-can-eat-device, it will provide a large amount of information, e.g. on how the problematic video is composed. And on top you get the possibility to outsmart your DVD-player by simply changing the identification of a clip, from Xvid to DivX for example.
The respective clip can be loaded via drag & drop or a file selection menu. The displayed file info includes in addition to general details like name, size and playing time the bit rate, display of metadata (e.g. ID3Tag for MP3) as well as DRM and file format.
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