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.
Ubuntu 17.04 packages.
HEVC: support of stream having VPS hrd_parameters.
FLV: support of FLV files with an ID3v2 header.
FLV: detect some incoherent frame rates in buggy files.
TIFF: support of more tags.
AAC: consider 4 back channels as 2 side + 2 back channels.
Matroska: integrate all elements from Matroska specs in MediaTrace.
WAV: parsing of MPEG Audio extension "mext" chunk and displayed in MediaTrace.
MPC: channels count.
AAC: ADTS/ADIF duration in case of full parsing and/or "risky bitrate estimation" option.
MXF: less false-positive detection of some files as MXF.
WAV: metadata coherency, ignore "fact" chunk more often in order to avoid bad information when this chunk is buggy.
DPX: DPX endianess not considered with some fields in MediaTrace.
Custom template: can check "Other" part as any other parts.
Matroska: fix parsing issue with small byte blocks are taken from the file e.g. when reading from HTTP link.
Matroska: files with unknown block size were flagged as truncated.
MediaTrace: values with a \n were breaking the text report lines.
Some typos (RefFrames, SPF).