MediaInfo provides easy access to technical and tag information about video and audio files.

A non-exhaustive list of the information MediaInfo can retrieve:

• Container: format, profile, commercial name of the format, duration, overall bit rate, writing application and library, title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
• Video: format, codec id, aspect, frame rate, bit rate, color space, chroma subsampling, bit depth, scan type, scan order...
• Audio: format, codec id, sample rate, channels, bit depth, language, bit rate...
• Text: format, codec id, language of subtitle...
• Chapters: count of chapters, list of chapters...

A non-exhaustive list of the formats MediaInfo can analyze:

• Container: MPEG-4, QuickTime, Matroska, AVI, MPEG-PS (including DVD), MPEG-TS (including 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, Dirac...
• 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...

A non-exhaustive list of the features:

• Read many video and audio file formats
• View information in different formats (text, tree)
• Export information as text
• Graphical user interface, command line interface, or library (.dll/.so/.dylib) versions available
• Integrate with the shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)

• Turkish translations updated thanks to Burak
• QuickTime: new field ScanOrder_Stored, displayed when display and Stored orders are not same (replacing ScanOrder_StoredDisplayedInverted field)
• IMF: better support of IMF files having more than 1 ressource per track
• IMF: better support of IMF files EntryPoint and SourceDuration fields
• MPEG-TS: EBP detection
• Excel VBA example (32 and 64 bit), in contrib directory
• Node.js examples added, in contrib directory
• GXF: support of DVCPRO HD
• GXF: Media Type is reported
• HEVC: added support of scaling_list_data
• HEVC: deactivated general_profile_compatibility_flag validity test because some encoders do not implement it correctly
• MPEG-4/MOV: Speed improvement, especially for full parsing of 100+ GB files.
• File reading: Speed improvement of big files, especially for full parsing, with the help of a dedicated reading thread
• Java binding: adding support of memory buffer as input, example with InputStream class (from RandomAccessFile or from FileUrl, including Amazon S3 authorization)
• PTX: more files are supported
• Ancillary data: more fomats are detected (OP-47 WST, OP-47 Multipacket, WSS, CEA-608, MPEG-2 Recoding Information...)
• EBUCore output: update, with EBUCore 1.5 support
• MXF: detection of Sony RAW SQ (by reverse engineering, not sure)
• F432, AVI: detection of MPEG Video with Codec Id 0x02000010
• AVI: detection of captions inside MPEG Video
• MPEG-4/MOV: showing non-media streams (e.g. hint/rtp tracks)
• #P81, HEVC: raw stream frame rate info, thanks to Kurtnoise
• AIFF/Dolby E: detection duration of hidden Dolby E increased from 0.1 second to 1 second
• #B833, FLV: some (out of specs) files were no more fully detected
• #B828, HEVC/H265: parsing of final specification (vui_parameters() specs were modified)
• #B835, HEVC/H265: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
• #B838, AVC/H264: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
• #B831, MPEG Audio: files with MusiFile header/trailer are correctly detected (but header/trailer are currently discarded)
• #B836, XCode 5.1 compilation issue fixed, thanks to masterkain
• STL: better support of non-English characters during decode
• MXF: some properties were not displayed with OP-Atom files
• JPEG-2000: wrong implmentation of COD parsing, with undefined behavior for some files
• MXF: potential crash with small files
• AAF: potential crash with small files
• HLS: potential crash with small files
• MXF: some video streams were wrongly detected as MPEG-2 video
• MXF: better detection of some weird cases with interlace JPEG-2000 content
• MXF: better support of files with more than 16 MB per frame (2.5 Gbps bit rate)
• configure.ac: removal of problematical typos, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
• Files with the wrong extension: the file was sometimes fully read (very slow!)
• AVI: Huge files (2GB+, with OpenDML) were sometimes parsed slowly
• MOV: better display of metadata when tvsh atom is present
• AC-3: some dependent streams ere not correctly detected
• configure.ac: removal of problematical typos, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
• #B834, OpenBSD port: correction of compilation failure, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff