How to verify a successful encode

[maxxed]

First post. Feel free to hammer me but I have searched and cannot find an answer to this.

I am encoding files in Windows Media Encoder. I would like to verify that the output files are free of glitches or errors. I know I can do this by actually watching each movie, but I would like to save the time and find a more robust method of checking these encoded WMV files.

Any idea how I could go about doing that?

[aedipuss]

welcome to the forum! maybe the easiest way would be to use gspot. open gspot and drag your file to it. it will read it and give you the results.

[maxxed]

Hi and thanks for the reply!

I have GSPOT, and maybe Im not as adept with it as I should be, but I thought it only gave you the properties of the file; how it was encoded, what settings, etc.

What I am after is a way to spot any glitches, any problems, lack of audio, video skipping, that sort of thing.

[aedipuss]

if gspot doesn't complain after examining the entire file it and it lists an audio and a video track it is most likely just dandy. it would stop at any errors it encountered.

[maxxed]

ok great, thanks!

[bendixG15]

I use Nero 6 to test my DVDs (thats about all I use it for these days.)

Will test the entire DVD and it does tell you if the DVD is not readable.

(I had 3 bad burns on Verbatim disks and Nero caught the them)

[guns1inger]

All you can test for is of the streams are clean. You cannot test for visual or aural glitches in the encoded video. It is quite possible to get a good encode (clean stream) with glitches, but there is no way to automagically check for it.