MediaInfo 0.7.63

MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. MediaInfo provides details about a both video and audio details, including an tag information. Links are provided to Web locations for download of most video codecs and applications. File data is exportable in a variety of formats including CSV, text and HTML. Note: MediaInfo tries to install sponsored OpenCandy software during installation, make sure to cancel that before continuing.

What can I do with it?

Read many video and audio file formats
Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
You can customize these views
Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
Internationalization: any language display on any version of your Operating System
Localization capability (but volunteers needed)

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: number 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's new in this version:

Switched to a BSD-2-Clause license
LXF: AFD (from ancillary stream) support
Detection of some side car files and showing them as a single package (optional)
MOV: more channel positions information
TTML: detection
SAMI: detection
ID3: updated list of genres, thanks to Mats
.so: search a local copy of the library before trying default path
AVI: Support of Adobe PARf (Aspect Ratio) chunk
VC-3: Scan order
#P65, Flac/Ogg DISCTOTAL metadata support, thanks to Kurtnoise
#P67, MOV, add Hap Video to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
#P67, Matroska, add VP9 to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
#P68, FLV, add HEVC detection in the FLV parser
#P66, MOV, tref/chap handling, with chapters information, thanks to Kurtnoise
#P72, MOV, HEVC/H265 detection and basic support, thanks to Kurtnoise
#F382/P75, PMP format detection
MPEG-TS, HEVC/H265 support
16:10 DAR known value
#B742, MPEG-4/MOV, crash with some truncated/invalid files
#B746, MPEG-4/MOV: crash with files having moof atom and no moov atom
#B747, Inconsistent hang with buffer API
#B757, MediaInfoDLL.py MediaInfoList was not working, thanks to Elbenfreund
#B740, XML: dt:dt is replaced by dt (for binary data)
MXF: Dolby E streams starting only at the second or third frame were not well detected
MPEG-4/MOV: reducing analysis time for I-frame only video streams
CEA-708: weird behavior phantom streams are displayed) in case of buggy CEA-708
AVI: crash with audio delay and AvgBytesPerSec of 0
Wrong demuxing of the caption stream in the case of AVC streams without frame_mbs_only_flag but having 2 fields in one slice.
DPX: parsing was very slow with a sequence of files.
MXF: Pre-charge duration was not read, time code of the first frame was wrong if "Origin" is not 0
FLV: file was sometimes (e.g. most of the file padded with zeroes) fully parsed
VC-3: Using values from specifications (based on compression ID) instead of SBD/SST/SPL/APLF from bitstream
#738, mediainfo-qt doesn't build