Scan your multimedia files to extract audio and video streams informations

is a simple application that can be used to scan multimedia files and extract some informations about audio and video streams:

• Video codec used
• Frame size
• Average video bitrate
• File size
• Total time
• Frame rate
• Total frames
• Info data
• Packet Bitstream
• User data (in MOVI chunk)
• Audio codec used
• Average audio bitrate
• Audio channels

From release 0.8.1, application architecture was completely rewritten; there are 3 different software layer: 

• Qt gui, Gtk gui and Console application
• Core Base component
• Plugins

It can scan and extract informations:

• from single multimedia file
• from supported multimedia files contained in a specific folder
• from supported multimedia files contained in a specific folder and his subfolders

With auto report generation, is possible auto save scan report for each file scanned which the same name (extension is .report). Themonospot is multilanguage (from release 0.6.5) using language files in languages folder. You can modify or add your language yourself, see language files user guide.

• hman (hmandevteam@gmail.com)
• cjg (cjg@cruxppc.org)

to run themonospot on your operative system you need:

• MONO Framework 1.2.4 or higher
• Qyoto for Qt Gui
• GTK# 2.8.3 or higher for Gtk Gui

here you find some screenshots of themonospot in action (click to enlarge):

Qt gui on Sidux Linux (KDE)	Qt gui on Mandriva Linux (KDE)
Gtk gui on Ubuntu Linux (GNOME)	Gtk gui on Fedora Linux (GNOME)
Qt gui on MS Windows	Gtk gui on OpenSuse (GNOME)

themonospot is a free software, released under GPL license.

current releases are:
- base 0.8.2 (core component)
- console 0.1.1 (console interface)
- gui-gtk 0.2.2 (gtk gui)
- gui-qt 0.1.3 (qt gui)
- plugin-avi 0.1.1 (avi plugin)
- plugin-mkv 0.1.1 (matroska plugin)

		Packages RPM for Opensuse users use openSUSE Build Service Repository for Themonospot project
		Packages RPM for Mandriva users you can install it with # urpmi package name
		Packages DEB you can find deb packages here
		Packages RPM for Fedora users you can install it with # yum install package name
		SlackBuild scripts for Slackware users (many thanks to Insomniac - insomniac@slackware.it) work in progress...
		eBuild scripts for Gentoo users (many thanks to Insomniac - insomniac@slackware.it) work in progress...
		Package SETUP for Windows users with installer work in progress...

for source code you can use one of the follow methods

• download tarballs here...
  - base component themonospot-base-0.8.2.tar.gz 
  - console interface themonospot-console-0.1.1.tar.gz 
  - gtk gui themonospot-gui-gtk-0.2.2.tar.gz 
  - qt gui themonospot-gui-qt-0.1.3.tar.gz 
  - avi plugin themonospot-plugin-avi-0.1.1.tar.gz 
  - matroska plugin themonospot-plugin-mkv-0.1.1.tar.gz 
  
• use  themonospot Google Code SVN Repository Browser 
• use the follow command line:
  svn checkout http://themonospot.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

follow this steps to install and run themonospot on your operative system:

• for linux platform:
  note: first of all verify if are available installation packages for your linux distribution in download section. If there aren't follow this steps:
  
  Core components
  - install mono from package manager of your distro
  - build and install themonospot-base tarball
  - build and install themonospot-plugin-avi tarball
  - build and install themonospot-plugin-mkv tarball
  
  Console interface
  - build and install themonospot-console tarball
  - run themonospot with follow command line: $themonospot-console
  
  Gtk gui
  - install gtk-sharp2 from package manager of your distro
  - install glade-sharp2 from package manager of your distro
  - install glib-sharp2 from package manager of your distro
  - build and install themonospot-gui-gtk tarball
  - run themonospot with follow command line: $themonospot-gtk
  
  Qt gui
  - install pinentry-qt4 from package manager of your distro
  - install qyoto from package manager of your distro
  - install qyoto-devel from package manager of your distro
  - build and install themonospot-gui-qt tarball
  - run themonospot with follow command line: $themonospot-qt
  
  


• for windows platform:
  - install MONO Framework from MONO-Project web site
  - install release Win32_Inst of themonospot
  - run themonospot from your Program Files Menu
  

• Gtk 0.2.2
  - bug fixed: scan process without plugin installed
  
• Core 0.8.2
  - feature: removed GAC use
  
• Core 0.8.1
  - feature: issue n. 11 - support for multiple file scan
  - feature: new multilayer architecture (gui, base, plugin)
  - feature: Qt gui (themonospot-gui-qt)
  - feature: Console application (themonospot-console)
  
• 0.7.3
  - bug fixed: issue n. 13 - wrong language setting
  - bug fixed: issue n. 10 - added auto-report
  - bug fixed: export with userdata changed improvement
  - feature: (default=false, to enable set true in config file .themonospot)
  - feature: added control to manage auto-export feature setting
  - feature: modified language files to add auto-export tag
  - feature: added Drag and Drop feature
  
• 0.7.1
  - Bug Fixed: solved problem on UserData function
  
• 0.7.0
  - New Feature: issue n.9 [Matroska file type support]
  - Bug Fixed: open avi,divx,xvid files with extention (Avi, AVI, DivX, Divx, DIVX, Xvid, XviD, XVID) <> avi,divx,xvid
  - Minor bugs fixed
• 0.6.5
  - Bug Fixed: issue n.7 [Wrong AudioRate value]
  - Bug Fixed: issue n.8 [Calculate VideoRate]
  - New Feature: Multilanguage with language files (*.lf in languages folder)
  - Minor bugs fixed
• 0.6.2
  - Bug Fixed: issue n.4 [Array index is out of range]
  - minor bugs fixed
  
• 0.6.0
  - split gui from process part. At now there is an .exe file for GUI and a .dll file for process functions
  - some bugs fixed
  
• 0.5.1
  - added extraction of Packet Bitstream infos from MOVI Chunk
  - added Change problematic UserData values and save file function
  
• 0.4.0
  - added autosave of last folder used
  - added extraction of USER DATA infos from MOVI Chunk
  - added FourCC change function (fourCC Code and Description)
  
• 0.3.0
  - new layout
  - some bugs fixed
  - optimization code

to contact me you can:

• send a mail to hmandevteam@gmail.com
• stay on irc channel #mono on server irc.eu.azzurra.org
• stay on irc channel #mono on server irc.gimp.net

to report a bug or see the bug fixing state you can use the issues section, see the image...