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.
- MXF: forcing detection of MPEG Video in case EssenceCompression is not present but MPEG2VideoDescriptor is present
- GXF: detection of some captions and time codes event if they are not present at the beginning of the file (testing middle of the file)
- DASH MPD: basic support
- HDS F4M (Flash Media Manifest): basic support
- DCP AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
- IMF AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
- Mac dylib: looking for the dylib in @executable_path and CFBundleCopyExecutableURL dir
- AAC: option for instantaneous bitrate in fast detect mode (MediaInfoLib only)
- FTP (custom builds only): support of UTF-8 file names
- Colour description: colour_description_present added, better separation between bitstream values and container values
- MPEG-4: RLE, color space and bit depth
- Law rating: support of CEA-608 XDS Content Advisory in MPEG-PS, MPEG-Ts, LXF, GXF
- MPEG-4/MOV: Bug found in one file, sample size is 16 with a 32-bit CodecID ("fl32"), correcting the output of MediaInfo
- AVI: AVI can use negative height for raw to signal that it's coded top-down, not bottom-up
- MPEG-TS: crash with some files having PAT/PMT change between begin and end of the file
- PBCore 1.2: some fields were not in the right order
- some humain readable strings were not removed when the corresponding field is removed
- MPEG-4/QuickTime: Erratic appereance of Bitrate Mode
- setlocale() remove from DLL
- DVCPRO HD: streams can be 8 or 10 bit, removing hard coded value from DV parser (MXF header value is used instead when applicable)
- wrong demux of some E-AC-3 streams
- AAC: detection of HE-AACv2 was missing if the library is configured with fast detection
- MPEG Video: wrong computing of duration of raw stream in case of drop frame time code
- Automation, StreamKind type was set to integer, it is text
- MPEG-4: was reading lot of useless bytes from disk when the raw stream format is not known
- AVI: crash with some malformed text streams
- Reference/playlist files were not supported from FTP (custom builds only)
- MPEG-4/MOV: ScanOrder was using "stored" value instead of "displayed" value
- MXF: Detection of Dolby E was not working in some cases (regression in 0.7.62)
- MPEG-4/MOV: freeze with some files having mono 32-bit PCM