MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. MediaInfo provides details about a both video and audio details, including an tag information. Links are provided to Web locations for download of most video codecs and applications. File data is exportable in a variety of formats including CSV, text and HTML. Note: MediaInfo tries to install sponsored OpenCandy software during installation, make sure to cancel that before continuing.
What can I do with it?
- Read many video and audio file formats
- Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
- You can customize these views
- Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
- Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
- Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag "n" drop, and Context menu)
- Internationalization: any language display on any version of your Operating System
- Localization capability (but volunteers needed)
What information can I get from MediaInfo?
- General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
- Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
- Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
- Text: language of subtitle
- Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
What format (container) does MediaInfo support?
- Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)... (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
- Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
- Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
What"s new in this version:
- Turkish translations updated thanks to Burak
- QuickTime: new field ScanOrder_Stored, displayed when display and Stored orders are not same (replacing ScanOrder_StoredDisplayedInverted field)
- IMF: better support of IMF files having more than 1 ressource per track
- IMF: better support of IMF files EntryPoint and SourceDuration fields
- MPEG-TS: EBP detection
- Excel VBA example (32 and 64 bit), in contrib directory
- Node.js examples added, in contrib directory
- GXF: support of DVCPRO HD
- GXF: Media Type is reported
- HEVC: added support of scaling_list_data
- HEVC: deactivated general_profile_compatibility_flag validity test because some encoders do not implement it correctly
- MPEG-4/MOV: Speed improvement, especially for full parsing of 100+ GB files.
- File reading: Speed improvement of big files, especially for full parsing, with the help of a dedicated reading thread
- Java binding: adding support of memory buffer as input, example with InputStream class (from RandomAccessFile or from FileUrl, including Amazon S3 authorization)
- PTX: more files are supported
- Ancillary data: more fomats are detected (OP-47 WST, OP-47 Multipacket, WSS, CEA-608, MPEG-2 Recoding Information...)
- EBUCore output: update, with EBUCore 1.5 support
- MXF: detection of Sony RAW SQ (by reverse engineering, not sure)
- F432, AVI: detection of MPEG Video with Codec Id 0x02000010
- AVI: detection of captions inside MPEG Video
- MPEG-4/MOV: showing non-media streams (e.g. hint/rtp tracks)
- #P81, HEVC: raw stream frame rate info, thanks to Kurtnoise
- AIFF/Dolby E: detection duration of hidden Dolby E increased from 0.1 second to 1 second
- #B833, FLV: some (out of specs) files were no more fully detected
- #B828, HEVC/H265: parsing of final specification (vui_parameters() specs were modified)
- #B835, HEVC/H265: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
- #B838, AVC/H264: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
- #B831, MPEG Audio: files with MusiFile header/trailer are correctly detected (but header/trailer are currently discarded)
- #B836, XCode 5.1 compilation issue fixed, thanks to masterkain
- STL: better support of non-English characters during decode
- MXF: some properties were not displayed with OP-Atom files
- JPEG-2000: wrong implmentation of COD parsing, with undefined behavior for some files
- MXF: potential crash with small files
- AAF: potential crash with small files
- HLS: potential crash with small files
- MXF: some video streams were wrongly detected as MPEG-2 video
- MXF: better detection of some weird cases with interlace JPEG-2000 content
- MXF: better support of files with more than 16 MB per frame (2.5 Gbps bit rate)
- configure.ac: removal of problematical typos, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
- Files with the wrong extension: the file was sometimes fully read (very slow!)
- AVI: Huge files (2GB+, with OpenDML) were sometimes parsed slowly
- MOV: better display of metadata when tvsh atom is present
- AC-3: some dependent streams ere not correctly detected
- configure.ac: removal of problematical typos, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
- #B834, OpenBSD port: correction of compilation failure, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Note: MediaInfo includes 3rd party (optional) software, you should pay close attention to avoid installing unwanted products or just download the ""lite"" version without OpenCandy.
Download: MediaInfo 0.7.68 | MediaInfo Lite | 2.4 MB (Open source)
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