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MediaInfo

Program that displays technical information about media files

Program that displays technical information about media files

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nameMediaInfo
logoMediaInfo Logo.svg
logo size64px
screenshotMediaInfo (2).png
screenshot size300px
captionMediaInfo 0.7.37 graphical user interface running on Windows 7
authorJérôme Martinez
released
latest release version
latest release date
latest preview date
programming languagePascal, C++
operating systemLinux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
size4.5 MB
language count37
language footnote
languageAlbanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
licenseSimplified BSD License
website

MediaInfo is a cross-platform, free and open source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. It is used in many programs such as XMedia Recode, MediaCoder, eMule, and K-Lite Codec Pack. It can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied . MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. Matroska, WebM, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real, DivX, XviD) as well as lesser known or emerging formats. In 2012 MediaInfo 0.7.57 was also distributed in the PortableApps format.

MediaInfo provides a command-line interface for displaying the provided information on all supported platforms. Additionally, a GUI for viewing the information on Microsoft Windows and macOS is provided.

Technical information

MediaInfo reveals information such as:

  • General: Title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration
  • Video: codec, aspect ratio, framerate, bitrate
  • Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate
  • Text: subtitle language
  • Chapters: numbers of chapters, list of chapters

MediaInfo 0.7.51 and newer retrieve codec information optionally from tags or by computation. Thus in the case of misleading tags erroneous codec information may be presented.

MediaInfo installer was previously bundled with "OpenCandy". However, you were able continue the installation process without installing it. This is no more the case since April 2016.

Supported input formats

MediaInfo supports just about any video and audio file including:

  • Video: MXF, MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo, Mpeg-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD-Video (VOB), DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264 (Mpeg-4 AVC)
  • Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RealAudio, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF, Opus
  • Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI

Supported operating systems

MediaInfo supports Microsoft Windows XP or later, macOS, Android, iOS (iPhone / iPad) Solaris and many Linux and BSD distributions. MediaInfo also provides source code so essentially any operating system or platform can be supported. An old version 0.7.60 for Windows 95 to 2000 exists.

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Licensing

Up to version 0.7.62 the MediaInfo library was licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, while GUI and CLI were provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Starting with version 0.7.63 the project switched to a BSD 2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License").

References

References

  1. "Language.csv".
  2. "LICENSE".
  3. (2014-02-28). "K-Lite Codec Pack 10.3.5 Full, Standard and Basic". free-codecs.com.
  4. (2014-01-11). "MediaInfo 0.7.67-1". free-codecs.com.
  5. (2012-05-12). "MediaInfo Portable 0.7.57 Development Test 1". [[PortableApps.com.
  6. [http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo MediaInfo About Page]
  7. "MediaInfo".
  8. [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediaarea.mediainfo MediaInfo for Android]
  9. [https://apps.apple.com/app/mediainfo/id1448983823 MediaInfo for iOS]
  10. [http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/Download MediaInfo Download Page]
  11. [https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/ChangeLog Change log] on MediaInfo website
  12. [http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/License MediaInfo(Lib) License] on MediaInfo website
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