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Diego Massanti
Media Inspector is a multimedia file analyzer. By using the amazing MediaInfo Library by Jerome Martinez, it will tell you every detail about codecs, settings, profiles and containers used for almost any audio or video file.
What's New
Version 1.3.1:
- Fixes an issue affecting Mac OS X 10.7 Lion users which was preventing the application to correctly export text reports.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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| Downloads:29,943 |
| Version Downloads:2,586 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Author Tools |
| License:Commercial |
| Date:01 Sep 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $2.99 |
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Media Inspector is a multimedia file analyzer. By using the amazing MediaInfo Library by Jerome Martinez, it will tell you every detail about codecs, settings, profiles and containers used for almost any audio or video file.
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ns194 reviewed on 09 Jan 2012
However, this app's GUI is definitely better and easier to use. It includes the ability to simply drag and drop your video file as opposed to having to look it up in your file directory, and an export function for those who want to report their video's quality on the web.
Nevertheless, having to pay for such a simple program whose predecessor is STILL FREE seems a bit much. But hey, if you want a free version of this one, just download a previous release. The link's right above. 0.7.36.0 works just fine.
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Amano_jyaku reviewed on 06 May 2011
A suggestion for future releases:
I would also like to see the possibility to have multiple windows so that I can compare different encodings of the same video source (without generating a report for every file).
And a question:
In the preferences I can see that it is also possible to show
the pixel aspect ratio of a video file (which is activated). I am using Handbrake for converting a lot of anamorphic MPEG2 content to anamorphic H.264 (mp4 container). Media Inspector only lists the display aspect ratio when scanning the output file. Why doesn't it show the pixel aspect ratio?
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Stephen Borisoff reviewed on 25 Apr 2011
I resolved the installation, and save to disc backup issues with the AppStore problems I was having. If the AppStore Utility in Snow Leopard finds your Media Inspector/MediaInfo Mac DMG in the Applications Folder or the two com.massanti.plist folder/files in the User Library preferences, AppStore assumes your app is installed.
Now, here is the rub and its resolution making the AppStore work well for me... I removed the above files but no luck. HOWEVER, somewhere in my iMac I have a Programs Folder with a hard copy of the older MediaInfo Mac DMG in it. The AppStore apparently knew about that file too!
Therefore, it claimed your app was installed.
Also, while the old app was there, the new Media Inspector DMG stated oddly that it was missing components when I tried to install it from a backup DVD. However, once I removed all traces everywhere above mentioned and installed the new 1.1 Media Inspector via AppStore, I was able to back up the DMG file and the com.massanti.plist, etc. in the User Library to DVD or external drive. So, as long as one uses the proper protocol of deleting everything, a backup can be copied your iMac and AppStore cooperates splendidly and registers that backup as "Installed". Groovy. Love your app!
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Just-Annutha-Dewd reviewed on 22 Apr 2011
The second usability issue that will have to be addressed before I will consider paying for it is the ability to load up multiple files to quickly review one by one. I'll use Preview as an example of how this could be done. I'd like to be able to drop a folder full of videos into the Media Inspector app and have each one listed in a sidebar. I could then go down the list to review each video's details. As an alternative, I'd like to be able to select a batch of videos in Finder, then use the "Open with" context menu to open each video in its own Media Inspector window. This would make it simpler to compare details side-by-side if desired. I can actually do either of these suggestions using Preview with image files, as an example.
As it stands, I sometimes temporarily made this app the default one for mkv or m4v files so I can easily launch it when I want to review multiple files. This is truly a cumbersome process, but hopefully will be addressed in the near future. :)
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Those features are planned for a future update that i won't release 'til i can fix certain minor bugs, and to be honest I'm not yet sure if all that will be part of Media Inspector or a new and different app.
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A while ago I wrote an improvement suggestion:
"Some videos have very long text in some fields (e.g. the "Video Encoder (Settings)" field created by x264). By now, you can only see the full information when you export the data.
It would be great if such field would show the whole text (with line breaks)."
Is this applied in the latest version?
I am asking because I cannot test that before I buy the app.
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The problem is not the new name of MediaInfo Mac.
The problem is the AppStore!
Apple's AppStore makes it impossible to download software anonymously. Apple knows all my software I own, Apple knows my name, Apple can and will lose (or sell) my private information sometime in the future. Or give it to government organizations.
The AppStore is indeed the end of free Mac software! (free in the sense of free and anonymously downloadable)
I'm a happy Mac user since 17 years. I still love the Mac. But I might consider new ways of computing soon.
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To begin with, I'm not charging you for a "fee", I'm charging you for the right to use my work, aka, licensing my work to you.
The new name was a matter of trademarks, as i clearly do NOT own the "Mac" trademark.
Could you possibly explain me in what way you would be able to pay for my software online, and remain anonymous ?
What kind of online store would allow you to buy software, hence performing an online money transaction without providing your personal and banking or credit card info ?
Is not that different than buying a book from Amazon.
And then again, for me and clearly for thousands of other developers the Mac app store is the easier and cheaper way, of course it is not perfect but for an small developer like myself is pretty much the only one option.
I plan to open the app to other retailers as they become better, but my priority now is to finish and release v 1.5 with the reporring features finished.
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My problem with Apple is: they soon will do it like with their iOS (iPhone, iPad). Shutting the MacOSX user from using software from the Net. In the future you are only allowed to install on your Mac software you get from the AppStore. The more developers use the AppStore today, the sooner this day will come. This will be the death of MacOSX as we know. Or you "jailbreak" MacOSX every time a new update comes, if you want to use your software freely. Not my cup of tea.
The AppStore is a bad idea and a nightmare from our "big brother" Steve Jobs. I don't support the AppStore and boycott all software that is offered only there.
Nothing against your Media Inspector. You will find tons of people who will purchase it from Apple.
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Again, your vision of the future is based only on speculation, you are on your right to believe what you want, but dont get amazed if it never happens.
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I further assume you don't buy anything online and don't use any Google services.
The rest of your "concerns" are made up in your head and amount to FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. You can believe that Apple will lock out anything non-App Store. You can also believe there are martian rays guiding your every move.
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Nevertheless, Apple's "consolidating" strategies of the last few years turn my stomach. Having cashed out already, I don't mind admitting that nearly all of the non-design characteristics that once drew me to Apple and its product now repulse me. We simply cannot abide by the megalomaniacal, Microsoftian ethos that now drives Apple. It's sad, but the MBP with which I type this comment is the last Apple product my family will have bought, and our most recent purchases run variants of Unix.
And the nail that sealed that coffin was the crApp Store, and it's a shame that Jobs didn't retire a few years ago when I still held him in high esteem.
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Stephen Borisoff reviewed on 31 Mar 2011
I am so glad I found your app, free or not, because a certain downloader which demands that the user know the specs of the flv they are downloading to put the right ones into the codec doesn't want to put the needed media info palette in that product for no other reason than it would make the downloader app look too much like their more expensive app they want to sell you next. So in their library, after download, a right click of the mouse luckily takes you to Finder and the downloaded flv is highlighted. In GetInfo, your app can be made to be the default opening app for all flv files and so by double clicking the highlighted flv file I can bring up your app which stays put right next to the downloader app, looks great as a workaround and gives me the needed data. It remains in view while I go into convert in that downloader option codec and I can put in the right numbers. Whether it is free or costs $7.00 is not the issue for me. Here is what bothers me. Call me old fashioned, weird, a geek, or whatever...I paid $2.99 and discovered that i cannot write a dmg file or the actual app to disc or to a CD or to a place I put all my software on my computer. Its all up in the sky somewhere in AppStore. I have paid 2.99 but until something changes like it can get smaller in size, etc., I frankly use the last version which I am glad I paid for indirectly this way. I simply do not like the AppStore concept at all. I am the type that even downloads standalone updates for iWorks. This makes me feel I own them. This may seem strange to you but I actually would pay you $12.00 for your marvelous app if you sent me the dmg file to write to disc that I could physically own. While you seem quite defensive towards other comments in this review section who seem quite unreasonable about your making a profit, you will notice that I would pay the world for your app. I need it to make that other incomplete app be what it has to be. The app is pretty, sleek, small in footprint, though I wouldn't mind if I could make it horizontally a bit narrower. I need just a few pieces of information and your app is the greatest ever. It is not your fault that Apple invented this auto install system of AppStore which I can't live with quite frankly. I would pay you any amount to get from you the actual installation dmg with key. This gives me the illusion that I own the product. You will notice that in no way am I blaming or attacking you. I am just old fashioned or a control freak perhaps but i am using the last version because it is in my hands on a physical media. Is there no way to have a place on your site where you can order the app on disc like many developers have for 2.99 plus 5.00. Notice that there is no concern on my part for free or cheap software. It may be eccentric, but I actually for my needs would pay any price for your marvelous perfect app. But the AppStore and computerized downloading from Apple bugs me terribly, sir. At least now I have paid you 2.99 for the freebee and that makes me proud because I am putting my money where my mouth is, but the method of distribution, to me, needs to include hardcopy purchase option for nuts like me. Please understand that money obviously has nothing to do with this comment and it is a five star app and you deserve and are getting my cash. VideoSpec is free but big and cumbersome, The original MediaInfo is plain large and not elegant. Your app has been a blessing for me since downloaders are not complete or even work right for the Mac and yours has saved my downloading life.
Thanks for your comments and i somehow understand your frustration, but there is nothing i can do for the time being. In case you haven't noticed though, you can use the app in as many computers as you want, provided you use the same appstore credentials.
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What are you, some self-annointed laughing philosopher? You may be right about my lack of brevity, but while you comment on paranoia and the virtues of conciseness which have nothing to do with Diego's fine work and others criticize him for no good reason, at least however i got it all out, I said what was the absolute truth...that his app is really outstanding. Your critique is noted by me, but please go join aesop's fable's existential philosophy group with your glib irrelevant insights.
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Philih reviewed on 29 Mar 2011
But why the app-store?! Now I know, the Mac-App Store is the end of the free software.
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Cheers.
Diego.
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But for me as user is this evolution really really frightening.
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Also, "the mac app store is the end of the free software", thats such a big lie! To begin with, there are thousands of free apps on the Mac AppStore, and the fact that i decided to start charging for this app has nothing to do with the appstore and is something that i has been considering for months )even before the appstore was here).
And finally you should have cared to comment and rate this app here while it was free, I'm sure you would have rated it 5 stars instead of 4 while it was free. Most people arguing or giving bad ratings here are just pissed off at the fact that the app is not free anymore, it is not really about the appstore, and if you think that my work is worth nothing, then there is really nothing i can do, appstore or not.
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I’m especially glad that he continues to list his software here, where all are free to discuss the software. But I don’t imagine that he (or others) will continue to do so, if they’re attacked.
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Cheers.
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Cheers, diego.
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I wonder why this does not work with .mkv files? Am I missing something?
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If I reconvert the ALAC back to FLAC it has the same MD5 signature as the original FLAC, which leads me to believe that MediaInfo Mac is misreporting the sample rate on the ALAC file.
Even a 1 second long sample would be enough.
Thanks in advance.
Diego.
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I set the new version's preference to "Expand all nodes by default", but when I drag and drop a movie on the MediaInfo icon, its window still opens with the nodes closed (that is, the triangles on the left are closed and I must click them to see the info).
My Systems:
2.4 GHz Core2Duo Unibody Aluminum 13" MacBook with 4 GB of RAM running Mac OS 10.6.3;
2.16 GHz Core2Duo 20" iMac with 2 GB of RAM also running OS 10.6.3.
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tried everything, restarted, no way. Did I miss something ?
thanks in advance for any help.
imac intel 10.5.8
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Diego.
I will fix it in a coming version, sorry about the trouble guys.
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Quiiick rated on 13 Mar 2012
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drdavedmin rated on 27 Nov 2011
Ilya.t. rated on 26 Sep 2011
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Diego Massanti rated on 23 Mar 2011
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Boojin rated on 02 Jan 2011
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Garrych rated on 27 Dec 2010