WhatTheCodec

Name: WhatTheCodec
Rating: 3.60 (23 reviews)
Author: Javernaut

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Displays video, audio and subtitle information of a video or audio file

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Total installs: 3,521
Installs / day: 0
Rating: 3.6★
Released: 10 Aug 2019
Last update: 25 May 2026
Countries: —

Install history

exact counter from Google Play

30dAll

Installs per day · last 90 days

Change timeline

Full history

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

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App manifest

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Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play

No data shared with third parties
No data collected

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

2 in 2 groups

2 Sensitive0 Notable0 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage

Photos/Media/FilesSensitive1

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

StorageSensitive1

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

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Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description

This app shows information about all media streams inside a video or audio files. For video streams the app shows: file format name, video codec name and frame size. Also the app the app shows 4 equidistant frames from a video file. For audio streams: audio codec name, bit rate, number of channels, channel layout, sample rate and format. For subtitle streams: title and language from stream’s metadata. Internally the app uses the FFmpeg library and supports all video/audio/subtitle codecs from it. The READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is used to actually read data from files that reside on the external storage and to reconstruct the file path. The source code of the the app and more technical description can be found here: https://github.com/Javernaut/WhatTheCodec

What's new

- UI twiks and improved landscape mode - 16kb page support for recent Android OS versions

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