After checking my own collection... I am interested in (and thought others might as well) statistics regarding media files like aspect ratios and resolutions of whatever videos people happen to have on their systems and have collected over the years (like but not limited to anime music videos).
Mostly interested in general and not specific information. No names or discussion of what the subject matter is are needed.
General information includes things like counts, file formats/codecs, aspect ratios, or resolutions. The last two especially, as I'm curious what aspect ratios as still in use and to what degree.
If you want to respond but do not know how to get that information easily, a program called MediaInfo can be used, as can other programs called AVICodec or GSpot that will output a CSV type spreadsheet report.
If using MediaInfo, then:
1. Simply open a my computer window to the root of the drive you have your music videos on, and type in the search box the extensions or types to search for. if you do not know the extensions, here are two handy generic lists with most of them you can cut and paste into the search.
- For Windows versions up through XP:
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*.ASF;*.AVI;*.DIVX;*.FLV;*.IVR;*.M4V;*.MKV;*.MOV;*.MP4;*.MPE;*.MPEG;*.MPG;*.OGG;*.OGM;*.OGV;*.RM;*.RMVB;*.SWF;*.WMV
- For Vista and 7:
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ext:.ASF OR ext:.AVI OR ext:.DIX OR ext:.FLV OR ext:.IVR OR ext:.M4V OR ext:.MKV OR ext:.MOV OR ext:.MP4 OR ext:.MPE OR ext:.MPEG OR ext:.MPG OR ext:.OGG OR ext:.OGM OR ext:.OGV OR ext:.RM OR ext:.RMVB OR ext:.SWF OR ext:.WMV
2. Then select/highlight all the files, and open MediaInfo and drag them into it. Once that is done, you can go to File/Export, change the Column Separator to a comma, select where to save and what name to use, then hit ok.
3. Open file you told it to make in a spreadsheet program like Excel and sort the spreadsheet by the the statistics interested in like aspect or resolution columns.
Using that information I end up with:
Counts include all videos, but not episodes or movies which I count separate:
Equivalent to Low Image Devices (Old Phones and iPods) and Low Bandwidth Countries (4 videos)
Aspect Aspect
Factor Ratio Frame Videos
1.000 - 01:01 - 120x120 - 1
1.250 - 05:04 - 150x120 - 1
1.333 - 04:03 - 160x120 - 2
Equivalent to LDTV - Low Definition Television (280 videos)
Aspect Aspect
Factor Ratio Frame Videos
1.150 - 23:20 - 276x240 - 5
1.250 - 05:04 - 300x240 - 10
1.333 - 04:03 - 320x240 - 201
1.500 - 03:02 - 360x240 - 24
1.556 - 14:09 - 372x240 - 4
1.667 - 05:03 - 400x240 - 14
1.775 - 16:09 - 426x240 - 10
1.850 - 37:20 - 444x240 - 3
2.000 - 18:09 - 480x240 - 2
2.200 - 11:05 - 528x240 - 3
2.400 - 12:05 - 576x240 - 2
Equivalent to SDTV - Standard Definition Television (469 videos)
Aspect Aspect
Factor Ratio Frame Videos
1.000 - 01:01 - 480x480 - 2
1.150 - 23:20 - 552x480 - 2
1.250 - 05:04 - 600x480 - 12
1.333 - 04:03 - 640x480 - 248
1.375 - 11:08 - 660x480 - 12
1.500 - 03:02 - 720x480 - 114
1.554 - 14:09 - 746x480 - 1
1.667 - 05:03 - 800x480 - 5
1.775 - 16:09 - 852x480 - 60
1.850 - 37:20 - 888x480 - 9
2.000 - 18:09 - 960x480 - 2
2.400 - 12:05 - 1152x480 - 2
Interactive SWF that cannot easily be converted (1 video)
Aspect Aspect
Factor Ratio Frame Videos
1.273 - 14:11 - 700x550 - 1
Equivalent to HDTV - High Definition Television (137 videos)
Aspect Aspect
Factor Ratio Frame Videos
1.333 - 04:03 - 960x720 - 8
1.667 - 05:03 - 1200x720 - 1
1.778 - 16:09 - 1280x720 - 126
1.850 - 37:20 - 1332x720 - 1
2.200 - 11:05 - 1584x720 - 1
For the above, I'm showing both the decimal number (rounded) for the aspect ratio and the common name for it along with my resolution.
You'll note despite popularity of 480p and 720p and even 1080p 16:9 wide-screen type formats I still come across far more in 4:3 aspect ratio format. And I have nearly as much in a 3:2 format as I do 16:9. And some older aspect ratio stuff is still holding out with videos released in their format from time to time by various up-loaders.
There are more aspect ratios than these... these are merely the ones I have stuff in. There is a 2.55 theater aspect ratio no longer in general use, likewise a 1.6. There is an official and custom 2.37 that no one but the TV makers that make them support. Etc...
Likewise, there are more vertical frame rates than these... 120p comes to mind, as does the more common in Europe tandards of 288p, 432p, and 576p.
In theory, a couple aspect ratios like 5:4 or 3:2 should not even be in general use much at all, as anything actually broadcast in those formats is supposed to be shown as 4:3 or 16:9... but that is not the case.
Last year I cleaned up my own collection so all videos are either 480p equivalent or 720p equivalent. And had a subsequent cleanup these last couple weeks broke it to three scales, corresponding to US broadcast standard levels... That is why the numbers are shown cleaner and more consistent than would be the norm... Many for example might have 160x120 and 320x240 videos, both are 4:3 aspect ratio. Most will have AVI, WMV, MKV, DIVX, etc... all are valid formats.
So... you've seen some of my statistics, what of yours?
Edited 09/04/2011: redid my collection after redownloading them all, and ditched FLV format and expanded 720p