mediainfo-gui1
Command line utility to display information about audio/video files mediainfo-gui - graphical utility to display information about audio/video files
Usage
- mediainfo [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
- mediainfo --Inform=FMT FileName
- mediainfo-gui [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
- mediainfo-gui --Inform=FMT FileName
Overview
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...
- - 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 does MediaInfo support?
- - Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
- - Video 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
- - View information in different formats (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
- - Customise these viewing formats
- - Export information as text, CSV, HTML...
- - Graphical Interface, Command Line, or library versions available
Options
MediaInfo supports the following case-insensitive options:
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--Help, -h -
Display help and exit
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--Help-Inform -
Display help for
--Informoption
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--Help-AnOption -
Display help for "AnOption"
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--Version -
Display MediaInfo version and exit
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--Full, -f -
Full information Display (all internal tags)
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--Output=HTML -
Full information Display with HTML tags
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--Output=XML -
Full information Display with XML tags
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--Inform=FMT -
Template defined information display.
FMT is "[xxx;]Text", where xxx can be any one of General, Video, Audio, Text, Chapter, Image, or Menu. Text can be the template text, or a filename in the form of file:///path
See
--Info-Parametersfor available parameters in the text. Parameters must be surrounded by "%".
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--Info-Parameters -
Display list of
--Informparameters
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--Language=raw -
Display non-translated unique identifiers (internal text)
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--LogFile=LogFile -
Save the output in LogFile
Examples
Display information about a video file
$ mediainfo foo.mkvDisplay aspect ratio
$ mediainfo --Inform="Video;%DisplayAspectRatio%" foo.mkv$ mediainfo --Inform="Video;file://Video.txt" foo.mkv
Both forms are equivalent if Video.txt contains:
%DisplayAspectRatio%
Display aspect ration and audio format
$ mediainfo --Inform="file://Text.txt foo.mkvIf Text.txt contains:
- "Video;%DisplayAspectRatio%"
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Then the display aspect ratio is printed out. |
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- "Audio;%Format%"
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Then the audio format is printed out. |
Releases
7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 6 times.