MediaInfo

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
Homepage:	https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
License:	GPL or LGPL licence
Appears in COW:	Abrdn Digital Preservation Workflow

Description

MediaInfo can be used to extract Metadata from video and audio files. It can display or export the results in many formats (text, tree, xml …) and also offers the possibility to use customized export profiles. The Software is localized for many countries.

How to use it:

• GUI for most operating systems

• CLI for all operating systems

• also available as a library (.dll/.so/.dylib)

Supported Formats/Containers:

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB) (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.263, H.264, H.265/HEVC, AVC)

• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF, DOLBY E, AES3, FLAC

• Subtitles: CEA-608, CEA-708, DTVCC, SCTE-20, SCTE-128, ATSC/53, CDP, DVB Subtitle, Teletext, SRT, SSA, ASS, SAM

Metadata provided:

• General: file format, title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration, file size, ID3-Tags (if applicable)

• Video: codec, height/width (pixel), aspect ratio, framerate, bitrate, framecount

• Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate, number of samples

• Text: language of subtitle

• Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters

Development Activity

Release Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when new releases occur, if any, e.g: Failed to load RSS feed from https://sourceforge.net/api/file/index/project-id/86862/mtime/desc/limit/20/rss: Error parsing XML for RSS

Activity Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when issue or code updates occur, if any, e.g: Failed to load RSS feed from http://sourceforge.net/p/mediainfo/code/feed/: * Error fetching URL:

• There was a problem during the HTTP request: 0 Error