How To Find Out Which Codec A Video File Is Using?

Thank you for the quick help, very useful :)

This was super helpful! I accidentally changed the codec on VSDC, and I couldn't recall what it HAD been...but suddenly Microsoft wanted me to pay to be able to watch my own videos.
Thanks so much!

Thanks a lot for sharing this info. It helped me for my issue

What about using VLC media player, play the file you want to know, click tools and then codec information?

While playing clip in VLC right click screen go to tool then codec info.

Inside Windows Explorer...
Right click the column headings. Select More... Enable "Video tracks"

Thanks brother it's really helped me alot but i'm still finding the more easy or automated way if i find one i'll come back and share with you guys anyways your video was great .

thanks

THANKS BRO!

excellent narration and thanks for info about video codec, but what about audio codec ?

You saved my day.
This video just now helped me solved a problem reported from a customer's computer! Thank you!

amazing, thanks man !

really nice info but is there a way to put this manually in the windows registry so it shows to the right codec?

This helped me out a lot. I didn't know my camera was set to h.265 and all my videos came out incompatible with my editor. At least now I know what the problem is. Thanks for the video!!!

look up "MediaInfo" on github, you do have to download it but you can build it from source yourself if you prefer

your video was a great help. had to sort more than 8000 videos in our archive.

Thanks. This sort of problem is so frustrating.