MediaArea.net SARL - (Open Source)
The codec used by a particular video is now very easy to find using the useful application named MediaInfo.
MediaInfo is a quick and effective tool developed to offer detailed information about the multimedia documents such as the codec used by a particular video.
The application is able to scan the files and then indicate the audio (MP3, Flac, AAC, WMA) and video (DivX, XviD, H264/AVC, WMV) codecs used. A link to the website to download the codec is also available, offering the possibility to install the codecs in a very convenient way.
MediaInfo is able to provide lots of information, including the number of frames per second, the rate used, the sampling frequency audio tracks or the number of channels available. MediaInfo also integrates to the context menu of Windows Explorer to access information from a sequence with a few clicks.
Its interface is more than simple: with just a point to the file or directory containing audio files and / or video it scans them presenting the result in different ways such as table, tree, plain text, or HTML page. Data can also be exported into text, HTML or CSV.
- License: Switched back to LGPLv2+Exceptions
- PCX support
- PSD support
- Matroska: ALAC detection
- OGG/MKV: Opus speech format support
- AVI: detecting more inconsistencies in stream durations
- GXF: crash with Time code tracks without frame rate info
- MPEG-4: stream order (hidden by default), in order to provide the same numbers as mkvtoolnix 5.2+ Track ID
- QuickTime: default channel map is "L R" for stereo streams (as it seems to be in QuickTime player)
- MPEG-4: support of WMA (version 1, version 2, Pro, Lossless) in MPEG-4
- FLV: handling of metadata with an underscore before the real metadata name
- MXF: support of files with header missing TrackNumber in the descriptor (if it is present only in footer)
- MXF: Language from DMS-1
- ProRes: analysis of the ProRes raw stream (including scan order for interlaced content)
- colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients: canonicalization of results
- MPEG-4 Visual: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
- ProRes: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
- GIF: Display Aspect Ratio
- different behavior depending of compilation options (so Linux version was missing some info)
- MPEG-4: audio/video delay was wrong in case of negative delay
- CEA-608: Memory leaks removed
- AVC: crash in case of analyzing some invalid SEI
- MPEG Audio: crash with some files having Lyrics 2 tags
- MPEG Audio: crash with some files having APE tags
- AVI: secondary genre comes after primary genres in the "Genre" field
- FLV: better handling of files containing more than 1 meta chunk
- MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: was aborting during full parsing in the case of very damaged streams
- Vorbis: infinite loop if codebook_entries>=256
- Id3v2: crash with some unsynchronized frames, especially with UTF-16 comments
- Id3v2: Wrong mime type of covers
- MPEG-PS: crash in case of language info in descriptors
- Java binding: crash with MediaInfo::Inform() (Windows 32-bit only)
- MPEG-TS: false-positive in case of some MPEG-4 files with wrong extension
- FLV: crash in some specific cases (malformed files)
- MVC: Scan type was wrong with MVC-only (without the underlying AVC stream) stream
- MPLS: stream duration was wrong with standalone (without the referenced M2TS) files
- MPLS: incoherent behavior with MPLS having more than one PlayListItem
- MPEG-TS: crash with some corrupted streams
- MOV: all EIA/CEA-608 captions were not well detected
- Matroska: Trying to better detect VFR streams, frame rate was wrong in case of interlaced content