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NAME

MediaInfo - command line utility to display information about audio/video files

MediaInfo-Gui - graphical utility to display information about audio/video files

SYNOPSIS

mediainfo [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]

mediainfo --Inform=FMT FileName

mediainfo-gui [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]

mediainfo-gui --Inform=FMT FileName

DESCRIPTION

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:

--Help, -h

Display help and exit

--Help-Inform

Display help for --Inform option

--Help-AnOption

Display help for ``AnOption''

--Version

Display MediaInfo version and exit

--Full, -f

Full information Display (all internal tags)

--Output=HTML

Full information Display with

HTML

tags

--Output=XML

Full information Display with

XML

tags

--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-Parameters for available parameters in the text. Parameters must be surrounded by ``%''.

--Info-Parameters

Display list of --Inform parameters

--Language=raw

Display non-translated unique identifiers (internal text)

--LogFile=LogFile

Save the output in LogFile

EXAMPLES

Display information about a video file

 $ mediainfo foo.mkv

Display 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.mkv

If Text.txt contains:

- Video;%DisplayAspectRatio%

Then the display aspect ratio is printed out.

- Audio;%Format%

Then the audio format is printed out.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permissions is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the full text of the

General Public License, Version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.