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MediaInfo: Get extended information about media files

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By Dipin Krishna
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
What information can I get from MediaInfo?
  • General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
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  • Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
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  • Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
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  • Text: language of subtitle
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  • Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
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What format (container) does MediaInfo support?
  • Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
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  • (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
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  • Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
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  • Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
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What can I do with it?
  • Read many video and audio file formats
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  • Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
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  • You can customise these views
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  • Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
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  • Graphical Interface, Command Line, or DLL
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  • Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
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  • Internationalisation: Any language display on any version of your operating system
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  • Localisation capability (but volunteers needed)
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Installation
In ubuntu (9.10 and 10.04)
you can install it from the MediaInfo PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiki/mediainfo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mediainfo

Others see http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download

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