Freeware Descriptions:

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

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
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: count 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
  • Multiple means to view information (text, sheet, tree, HTML…)
  • You can customize theses views
  • Exporting possibilities: text, CSV, HTML…
  • Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
  • Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag´n´ drop, and Context menu)
  • Internationnalization: any language diplay on any version of your Operating System
  • Localization capacities (but volonteers needed)

What’s New in version 0.7.13:

  • Hungarian, Albanian translations updated
  • #2635230, MPEG audio: Lame encoder settings
  • #2706146, WMV: detection of container wanted aspect ratio
  • #2611726, MKV: Audio delay detection
  • #2721811, MKV: TrueHD detection
  • Java: JNA (Java Native Access) binding
  • Exported “stream” interface for analyzing streams in memory (beta)
  • SHN (Shorten) detection
  • TAK (Tom’s lossless audio compressor) detection
  • MPEG-TS parser optimizations
  • SWF: better handling of videos
  • WAV: better handling of 4GiB+ files
  • WAV: Extensible Wave support
  • MKV: Handling of chapters in multiple languages
  • Stream size for all streams when 1 video and all audio streams are CBR
  • Chapters are moved to menu part for better coherency with MPEG-TS, developers see Changes.txt for more info
  • #2712761, AVI: unsupported SalmonSoft text codec makes MediaInfo silently fail
  • #2719534, MKV: handling “modified” headers (zero padding)
  • #2720822, MPEG Audio: was freezing with 1 malformed file
  • #2721949, IFO: some stream IDs were false
  • #2725808, MPEG-PS: some “OTA” files were detected with TrueHD instead of normal AC-3 audio

MediaInfo 0.7.13 Screenshot


File Size / OS:

  • 1.7 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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