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.
- 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
- Flac/Ogg DISCTOTAL metadata support, thanks to Kurtnoise
- MOV, add Hap Video to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
- Matroska, add VP9 to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
- FLV, add HEVC detection in the FLV parser
- MOV, tref/chap handling, with chapters information, thanks to Kurtnoise
- MOV, HEVC/H265 detection and basic support, thanks to Kurtnoise
- PMP format detection
- MPEG-TS, HEVC/H265 support
- 16:10 DAR known value
- MPEG-4/MOV, crash with some truncated/invalid files
- MPEG-4/MOV: crash with files having moof atom and no moov atom
- Inconsistent hang with buffer API
- MediaInfoDLL.py MediaInfoList was not working, thanks to Elbenfreund
- 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
- mediainfo-qt doesn't build