MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

What information can I get from MediaInfo?

  • General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
  • Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
  • Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
  • Text: language of subtitle
  • Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
  • What format (container) does MediaInfo support?
  • Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...(Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
  • Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
  • Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...

What can I do with it?

  • Read many video and audio file formats
  • Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
  • You can customise these views
  • Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
  • Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
  • Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
  • Internationalisation: any language display on any version of your Operating System

What MediaInfo analyticals are include?

  • Container: MPEG-4, QuickTime, Matroska, AVI, MPEG-PS (including unprotected DVD), MPEG-TS (including unprotected Blu-ray), MXF, GXF, LXF, WMV, FLV, Real...
  • Tags: Id3v1, Id3v2, Vorbis comments, APE tags...
  • Video: MPEG-1/2 Video, H.263, MPEG-4 Visual (including DivX, XviD), H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, FFV1...
  • Audio: MPEG Audio (including MP3), AC3, DTS, AAC, Dolby E, AES3, FLAC...
  • Subtitles: CEA-608, CEA-708, DTVCC, SCTE-20, SCTE-128, ATSC/53, CDP, DVB Subtitle, Teletext, SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...

What's New

  • Android: dark mode rework, thanks to cjee21
  • Android: modernize the backend, thanks to cjee21
  • More coherency/integrity checks, sponsored by Austrian Mediathek
  • MXF: fix crash with some 0 byte audio packets + MPEG-4: C2PA support
  • ID3v2: support of Olympus voice recorder metadata
  • Matroska: show block addition tracks
  • Matroska: add timecode label readout
  • Add default language string for ISO 639-2 special codes, thanks to cjee21
  • AVI/WAV: add support for WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG_HEAAC (0x1610)
  • AV1: Enable parsing raw OBU from network, thanks to cjee21
  • AV1: Indicate usage of Film Grain Synthesis, thanks to cjee21
  • Matroska/TimeCodeXML: add frame rate
  • Matroska: fix incoherent readout of unordered tag elements
  • TimeCodeXml output: fix lack of frame number with some MXF SDTI timecodes
  • AVI/WAV: fix crash with some invalid FourCC
  • SDP: fix false-positive detection x I2469
  • CDP: fix handling of 708 streams caught in the middle

Previous release notes

  • Italian, Russian translations update
  • Windows: tweak the ads height for avoiding too big ads in when the window is maximized
  • Android: Migrate to Material Design 3 (thanks to cjee21)
  • ADM: Dolby E profile for emission conformance checker
  • AAC: show when PNS is ued
  • MPEG-TS: map message_id code to the stored message character string
  • AC-4: Enhancement to Presentation Role display
  • AC-4: Add Bitstream level and Presentation level
  • MXF: support of experimental ARRI ULs
  • WavPack: fix duration for long duration
  • WAV: detection of C2PA + display of thumbnails characteristics
  • MasteringDisplay_Luminance: split Min and Max
  • Dolby Vision: Fill colour, transfer & matrix for profile 5 (thanks to cjee21)
  • JPEG: Detect lossless (thanks to cjee21)
  • MPEG-TS: update DVB descriptors and service types for NGVC and NGA (thanks to paulhiggs)
  • Reset MXF status based on footer partition (thanks to ammonriley)
  • VP9: VP9 in MP4 support (thanks to cjee21)
  • SphericalVideo: use StereoMode instead of of SourceCount
  • I2400, Fix crashes with some malformed files
  • Android GUI: fix some display issues with the billing and preference windows
  • MaxCLL/MaxFALL: value without unit in the XML/JSON output
  • Fix infinite loop in UTF8 (e.g. JavaScript) build
  • HDR: fix random crash with multiple HDR formats
  • PAC: Fix duration/timestamps
  • Spherical Video 2 support, fix BF4 support with 0.32 readout, update