MediaINFO is a Digital Library System made for easy browsing, searching, cataloging and sharing of digitized culture and heritage. Prints formatted representations of objects to a text-output stream. This class implements all of th. This app is a fork of MediaInfo by Mediaarea.net The MediaInfo data display includes:-Container: format, profile, commercial name of the format, duration, overall bit rate, writing application and library, title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration. MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. The MediaInfo data display includes: - Container: format, profile, commercial name of the format, duration, overall bit rate, writing application and library, title, author, director, album, track number, date.

MediaInfo is a free, cross-platform 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.^[4] It can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied MediaInfo.dll. MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. Matroska, WebM, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real, DivX, XviD) as well as lesser known or emerging formats.^[5] In 2012 MediaInfo 0.7.57 was also distributed in the PortableApps format.^[6]

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[edit]

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^[7]

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.^[8] This is no more the case since April 2016.

Supported input formats[edit]

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
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI^[7]

Supported operating systems[edit]

MediaInfo supports Microsoft Windows XP or later, macOS, Android,^[9]iOS (iPhone / iPad)^[10]Solaris and many Linux and BSD distributions.^[11] 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.^[11]

There is a Doom9 thread for MediaInfo developers also covering simplified^[12] and modified^[13] implementations.^[14]

Licensing[edit]

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').^[15][16]

See also[edit]

• FFmpeg command line tool ffprobe

References[edit]

1. ^'Release 21.03'. 27 March 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
2. ^'Language.csv'. Github. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
3. ^'LICENSE'. Github. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
4. ^'K-Lite Codec Pack 10.3.5 Full, Standard and Basic'. free-codecs.com. 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
5. ^'MediaInfo 0.7.67-1'. free-codecs.com. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
6. ^'MediaInfo Portable 0.7.57 Development Test 1'. PortableApps. 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
7. ^ ^abMediaInfo About Page
8. ^http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/powered_by_opencandy
9. ^MediaInfo for Android
10. ^MediaInfo for iOS
11. ^ ^abMediaInfo Download Page
12. ^'Mulder MediaInfo (CLI+GUI)'. SourceForge project muldersoft. 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
13. ^Dirk Paehl (2013-12-11). 'Versionen von DP MediaInfo 32/64Bit'. Archived from the original on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
14. ^'MediaInfo(Lib) 0.7 - Reading information about media files'. Doom9. 2005. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
15. ^Change log on MediaInfo website
16. ^MediaInfo(Lib) License on MediaInfo website

External links[edit]

• MediaInfo at Open Hub

MediaArea is an open source software company focused on digital media analysis. We develop and support tools that aid developers in integrating digital media file investigation into their work.

We do mostly open source code, without rejecting proprietary code on request.

MediaInfo is our flagship product with 4 000 downloads per day, we also currently work on MediaConch, and we worked in the past on QCTools, BWF MetaEdit and some other projects.

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Each member of the team is unique and commits code under their own name. Their work is visible via their respective accounts listed below.

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Different levels of involvement, from self-funding, self-management, and full development to external funding, external management, and partial development.

These projects are open source, which means you can participate too. In addition, if you don't like what we are doing, you can fork the code and offer a better version.

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We are not directly involved in these projects but we use them for A/V analysis, and we sometimes send patches to these projects.

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Events

We also organize or participate to several A/V related events.

Get in touch

We can contract worldwide, with business entities in Europe (France) and in North America (New York).

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