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.
- EBUCore 1.4 output support
- IMF AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): improved support
- Channel layout information for AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, Dolby E
- MXF: CodecID field (EssenceContainer-EssenceCompression)
- Pro Tools 10+ Session file (.ptx) support, by reverse engineering (=it may not work)
- Playlist files: trying to detect language and channel layout from file names
- QuickTime: new field ScanOrder_StoredDisplayedInverted, set to "Yes" when display and Stored orders are inverted
- Wave: Detection of wrong byte rate in header in order to provide right duration of some PCM streams
- ARIB captions: detection of captions in ancillary data (tested with MXF)
- AAF: basic support of playlist files
- QuickTime: false-positive detection of incoherency between container and raw stream scan order due to inverted display and tored orders
- MXF: Dolby E stream not detected in some cases
- HEVC: general_level_idc shall be set equal to a value of 30 times the level number, not 10 times, thanks to Kurtnoise
- C# binding example: was not working with 2GB+ files, was parsing sometimes the whole file
- AAC: Infinite loop
- AC-3: Segfault on files falsely recognized as AC3 files, thanks to Gildas Desnos
- PCM: Infinite loop
- APE tags: Infinite loop
- AVC: Infinite loop
- CLI_Compile.sh bug ("eats all resources" while compiling)
- LATM: false-positive detection of some files
- MXF: Crash with some files