MediaInfo
{{short description|Cross-platform and open-source program that displays technical information about media files.}}
{{Infobox software
| title =
| name = MediaInfo
| logo = MediaInfo Logo.svg
| logo size = 64px
| screenshot = MediaInfo (2).png
| screenshot size = 300px
| caption = MediaInfo 0.7.37 graphical user interface running on Windows 7
| author = Jérôme Martinez
| developer =
| released = {{Start date and age|2002|12|28|df=yes}}
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|reference|P348}}
| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}
| latest preview date =
| programming language = Pascal, C++
| operating system = Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, iOS
| size = 4.5 MB
| language count = 37
| language footnote = {{cite web |title=Language.csv |url=https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/blob/master/Source/Resource/Language.csv |website=Github |access-date=17 September 2019}}
| language = Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Galician, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
| license = Simplified BSD License{{cite web |title=LICENSE |url=https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/blob/master/LICENSE |website=Github |access-date=17 September 2019}}
| website = {{url|https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo}}
}}
MediaInfo is a free, cross-platform and open-source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. It is used in many programs such as XMedia Recode, MediaCoder, eMule, and K-Lite Codec Pack.{{cite web|url=http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm|title=K-Lite Codec Pack 10.3.5 Full, Standard and Basic|publisher=free-codecs.com|date=2014-02-28|access-date=2014-02-28}} It can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied {{mono|MediaInfo.dll}}. MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. Matroska, WebM, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real, DivX, XviD) as well as lesser known or emerging formats.{{cite web|url=http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Info.htm|title=MediaInfo 0.7.67-1|publisher=free-codecs.com|date=2014-01-11|access-date=2014-02-28}} In 2012 MediaInfo 0.7.57 was also distributed in the PortableApps format.{{cite web|url=http://portableapps.com/node/28251|title=MediaInfo Portable 0.7.57 Development Test 1|date=2012-05-12|publisher=PortableApps|access-date=2014-02-28}}
MediaInfo provides a command-line interface for displaying the provided information on all supported platforms. Additionally, a GUI for viewing the information on Microsoft Windows and macOS is provided.
Technical information
MediaInfo reveals information such as:
- General: Title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration
- Video: codec, aspect ratio, framerate, bitrate
- Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate
- Text: subtitle language
- Chapters: numbers of chapters, list of chapters[http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo MediaInfo About Page]
MediaInfo 0.7.51 and newer retrieve codec information optionally from tags or by computation. Thus in the case of misleading tags erroneous codec information may be presented.
MediaInfo installer was previously bundled with "OpenCandy". However, you were able continue the installation process without installing it.{{Cite web|url=http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/powered_by_opencandy|title=MediaInfo}} This is no more the case since April 2016.
=Supported input formats=
MediaInfo supports just about any video and audio file including:
=Supported operating systems=
MediaInfo supports Microsoft Windows XP or later, macOS, Android,[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.mediaarea.mediainfo MediaInfo for Android] iOS (iPhone / iPad)[https://apps.apple.com/app/mediainfo/id1448983823 MediaInfo for iOS] Solaris and many Linux and BSD distributions.[http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/Download MediaInfo Download Page] MediaInfo also provides source code so essentially any operating system or platform can be supported. An old version 0.7.60 for Windows 95 to 2000 exists.
There is a Doom9 thread for MediaInfo developers also covering simplified{{cite web
|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/muldersoft/files/MediaInfo%20%28CLI%2BGUI%29/
|title=Mulder MediaInfo (CLI+GUI)
|publisher=SourceForge project muldersoft
|date=2013-12-20
|access-date=2013-12-29}} and modified{{cite web
|url = http://www.paehl.de/cms/node/10/revisions
|title = Versionen von DP MediaInfo 32/64Bit
|author = Dirk Paehl
|date = 2013-12-11
|access-date = 2013-12-29
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235647/http://www.paehl.de/cms/node/10/revisions
|archive-date = 2013-12-30
}}
implementations.{{cite web
|url=http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96516&highlight=mediainfo
|year=2005
|title=MediaInfo(Lib) 0.7 - Reading information about media files
|publisher=Doom9
|access-date=2013-12-29}}
Licensing
Up to version 0.7.62 the MediaInfo library was licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, while GUI and CLI were provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Starting with version 0.7.63 the project switched to a BSD 2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License").[https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/ChangeLog Change log] on MediaInfo website[http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo/License MediaInfo(Lib) License] on MediaInfo website
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|MediaInfo}}
- {{Official website|https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo}}
- {{Openhub|MediaInfo}}
Category:Cross-platform free software
Category:Free multilingual software
Category:Free multimedia software
Category:Free software programmed in C++