Summary
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]
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 MediaInfo 0.7.37 graphical user interface running on Windows 7 | |
| Original author(s) | Jérôme Martinez |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 28 December 2002 |
| Stable release | 24.01.1[1]
/ 18 February 2024 |
| Repository |
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| Written in | Pascal, C++ |
| Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS |
| Size | 4.5 MB |
| Available in | 37 languages[2] |
List of languages Albanian, 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. | |
| License | Simplified BSD License[3] |
| Website | mediaarea |
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, Opus
- 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
References edit
- ^ "Release 24.01.1". 18 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ "Language.csv". Github. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "LICENSE". Github. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "K-Lite Codec Pack 10.3.5 Full, Standard and Basic". free-codecs.com. 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ "MediaInfo 0.7.67-1". free-codecs.com. 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ "MediaInfo Portable 0.7.57 Development Test 1". PortableApps. 2012-05-12. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ a b MediaInfo About Page
- ^ "MediaInfo".
- ^ MediaInfo for Android
- ^ MediaInfo for iOS
- ^ a b MediaInfo Download Page
- ^ "Mulder MediaInfo (CLI+GUI)". SourceForge project muldersoft. 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
- ^ Dirk Paehl (2013-12-11). "Versionen von DP MediaInfo 32/64Bit". Archived from the original on 2013-12-30. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
- ^ "MediaInfo(Lib) 0.7 - Reading information about media files". Doom9. 2005. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
- ^ Change log on MediaInfo website
- ^ MediaInfo(Lib) License on MediaInfo website
External links edit
- Official website
- MediaInfo at Open Hub