MediaInfo

MediaInfo

MediaInfo 0.7.37 running on Windows 7
Stable release	0.7.50 / September 23, 2011; 50 days ago (2011-09-23)
License	GPL, LGPL
Website	http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

MediaInfo is a free, 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, K-Lite Codec Pack, Media Player Classic Homecinema and can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied MediaInfo.dll. MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. AVI, WMV, Quicktime, DivX, XviD) as well as many lesser known or emerging formats (e.g. MKV, OGM, Real). MediaInfo provides a GUI for easily viewing the information.

Technical information

MediaInfo reveals information such as:

• General: Title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration
• Video: codec, aspect ratio, fps, bitrate
• Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate
• Text: Subtitle language
• Chapters: numbers of chapters, list of chapters^[1]

Supported Input Formats

MediaInfo supports just about any video and audio file including:

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, Quicktime, Real, Mpeg-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB), DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264 (Mpeg-4 AVC)
• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI ^[1]

Supported operating systems

MediaInfo supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and many Linux and BSD distributions.^[2] MediaInfo also provides source code so essentially any operating system or platform can be supported.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} MediaInfo About Page
2. ^ MediaInfo Download Page

External links

• MediaInfo Website
• MediaInfo
• Videohelp - MediaInfo
• Digital Digest - MediaInfo
• CNet - MediaInfo
• fileForum - MediaInfo