MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. It is free software (free of charge and free access to source code: GPL or LGPL licence)

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

DivX, XviD, H263, H.263, H264, x264, ASP, AVC, iTunes, MPEG-1, MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG2, MPEG-4, MPEG4, MP4, M4A, M4V, QuickTime, RealVideo, RealAudio, RA, RM, MSMPEG4v1, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v3, VOB, DVD, WMA, VMW, ASF, 3GP, 3GPP, 3GP2

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...
multiplexer, demuxer, mixer, muxer, video decoder, audio decoder, PAL, NTSC

What can I do with it?

Read many video and audio file formats

Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)

You can customize these views

Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...

Graphical Interface, Command Line, or DLL

Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)

Internationalization: Any language display on any version of your operating system

Localization capability (but volunteers needed)


Limitations: This program is advertising supported and may offer to install third party programs that are not required for the program to run. These may include a toolbar, changing your homepage, default search engine or other third party programs. Please watch the installation carefully to opt out.