Does anyone know where I can get Dumpster?

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Does anyone know where I can get Dumpster?

This is the same title as a discussion from 2010 - Apple used to have a Dumpster tool that's useful for troubleshooting Quicktime files.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread/2618823

The link in the thread no longer works and the thread got archived.

This tool reportedly still works on SL and is useful - any other tool I've tried (like VideoSpec) only sees parts of the parameters in the file. Today we had a field dominance metadata problem in a QT file and VideoSpec can't see the 'fiel' QT tag.

Posted on Sep 4, 2012 2:07 PM

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Jon Walker

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Sep 4, 2012 2:33 PM in response to DLpres2

The link in the thread no longer works and the thread got archived.

Try a download from this page: http://downloads.walker4.me/downloads/Temporary.html

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DLpres2 Author

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Sep 5, 2012 11:24 AM in response to Jon Walker

Thanks, Jon! I was hoping you'd chime in.

I already learned that Avid's exported Quicktimes in Avid uncompressed codec don't include 'pasp' and 'fiel' extensions, even though they're mandatory. (The file in question had nonsquare pixels and interlaced fields.)

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tryzigc

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Oct 11, 2012 10:33 AM in response to DLpres2

Media Box Viewer does the same thing as Dumpster and much more. It can be downloaded from www.jdxsoftware.org. In addition to Quicktime, it can also open MP4, 3gp, etc. It can also edit Quicktime movies like Quicktime Pro. It runs on all platforms, such as Windows, Mac, Linux.

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pinto007

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Mar 27, 2014 12:39 PM in response to tryzigc

jdxsoftware website doesn't work😟 Does anyone know where I can get Media Box Viewer? I can't find it.

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Apr 14, 2014 11:43 PM in response to pinto007

Hi, I would really like to get hold of a copy of Media Box Viewer, but jdxsoftware.org is no longer. Anyone know where I can get a copy please?

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25Albert

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May 1, 2014 10:13 AM in response to DLpres2

On https://developer.apple.com/downloads, I found "Atom Inspector". I havent tried it yet, but I hope it might be a replacement or an alternative to Dumpster.

Atom Inspector is a tool for viewing and editing atom resources in QuickTime movie and MP4 files. It provides functionality such as incremental atom search, atom specific data views and hexadecimal display mode.

Atom Inspector requires a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.

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