MediaInfo

[bionic]

What is MediaInfo?
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
This is free software (free of charge and free to access source code: GPL or LGPL licence)

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 can I do with it?
Read many video and audio file formats
Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
You can customise 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)
Internationalisation: any language display on any version of your Operating System
Localisation capability (but volunteers needed)

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en



thx zver for pointing it out in the first place

[bionic]

Version 0.7.4.4 2007-01-
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+ HTML Demonstration of how to use "custom view" feature (thanks to Musaran)
+ FLV format support
+ Basic support of multiple programs in a MPEG Transport Stream (Satellite broadcast)
+ Basic detection of TwinVQ (.vqf) files (+tag parsing)
+ Better handling of corrupted .mp4 files
+ Better handling of corrupted .avi files
x Crash with corrupted "COMM" Id3v2 tags
x Crash with some audio files
x 1633524: MOV, Crash on files with corrupted Descriptors
x 1630907: MP3, Crash on files with corrupted (empty) Id3v2 tag
x 1637838, 1634549, 1635131: Crash with some audio-only files
x AVI, Better detection of writing application found in a "JUNK" chunk
x AVI, sometimes wrong playtime
x 1637191: AC3 delay in AVIs is back
x 1635134: some freezes with MPEG-7 files (but this format is not yet supported)
x 1635087: some files were wrongly detected as AC3
x Russian (or other non-latin language) AVI tag parsing is back.

Notes :
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+ Added
- Deleted
x Bug correction

Known bugs
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- Languages (other than english and French) : not all words are translated, I need translators!
- Others? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...62&atid=581181

[zver]

I checket that option for update so i got it when i was checking some files today-but thanks anyway bud-this is excelent audio-video app as it works for all formats i need;avi,mp3,ogg,flac,and ape

[bionic]

Version 0.7.4.5, 2007-02-23
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+ Greek translation (thanks to Alexander)
+ Program file size reduction
+ WAV : Support of some special tags at the end of the file
+ AVC : Display Aspect Ratio
x 1653325: Wrong Resolution with AVC High Profile
x 1662890: Problem with tag adaptation parser (mainly for ID3v1 genre)
x Better support of corrupted MOV files

[bionic]

Version 0.7.4.6, 2007-04-28
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+ Windows 64-bit version of the command line tool and DLL (separately)
+ Linux 64-bit version of the command line tool (separately)
+ More Musepack properties
+ Detection of Musepack v8 files
+ Complete parsing of Real Media files (all tags)
+ Improved Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) parsing
+ MonkeyAudio tags (APETagv1/v2, Id3v1) parsing
+ Ogg/Theora : Video bitrate
+ MPEG audio : More encoder detection (bitstream parsing)
+ SWF (Flash) parsing
x #1665981: Mov - PCM audio (digital camera) was detected as RGB
x #1672896: Wave file with .mp3 extension was detected as MP3
x #1689570 and #1633237: Better JPEG parsing
x Some other minor bugs

[bionic]

Version 0.7.4.7, 2007-05-14
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+ OGG Vorbis, "Floor" value (useful for some players which don't support Floor 0)
+ MPEG-Audio, Lyrics3v1/v2, ApeTagv1/v2 parsing
+ MPEG-TS, handling of complex files (multiple programs, 8+ channels...)
+ #1704008: handling of AVC or MPEG-4 Video in a MPEG-TS file without program map
+ VC-1 basic parsing
+ DTS True HD detection
+ AC3+ detection
+ HD-DVD (decyphered) support
+ BluRay (decyphered) support
x MPEG-TS, Duration calculation problem on very rare files
x MPEG-4/iTunes, Tags where not well parsed in 0.7.4.6
x FLV, freezes or crashes with some files
x #1718269: MPEG-4 Video, Framerate of 65535/2733 is transformed to 23.976
x Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) with file size more than 4GB were not well handled
x MP4 with file size more than 4GB were not well handled

[bionic]

Version 0.7.5.0, 2007-07-09
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+ Licence changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3
+ Korean language, thanks to http://www.starcodec.com
+ More information about mpeg-4 based (Nero...) files
+ MediaInfo analyses longer a .vob file to be able to find hidden tracks (subtitles...)
+ #1747633: Encrypted WMV detection
+ FLV: more attributes
x Memory leaks correction
x #1720404: MPEG, rare crashes with some files
x #1721846: AAC ADTS were no more detected
x MPEG Audio: No detection if there is some specific junk before the real audio data
x #1728059: Delphi DLL overflow with big files
x Crash with Youtube FLV files
x AVI: Delay for AC3, DTS and MP3 is back

[bionic]

Version 0.7.5.1, 2007-07-23
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+ AVI: 24/30 fps (aka 120 fps hack or dual frame rate video) detection
+ TruAudio (.tta) support
+ Wavpack (.wv) support
+ MPEG-4 based containers: Codec/CC tag support
+ #1754521: .tta, .wv, .wvc, .trp, .m2ts extensions handling in the infotip
+ #1754143: AC3 & DTS detection in a .mp4 container made with the Haali's gdsmux tool
+ #1754140: AC3 detection in a .mp4 container from Nero Digital
+ #1754905: iPhone files support
x #1750275: HD-DTS was no more detected in a .m2ts (bluray) file
x AVI: AAC profile name was no more detected