MEDIAINFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2023-05-02
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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...]
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- mediainfo --Inform=FMT FileName
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- mediainfo-gui [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
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- mediainfo-gui --Inform=FMT FileName
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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...
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- - Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
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- - Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
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- - Text: language of subtitle
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- - Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
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What format does MediaInfo support?
- - Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
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- - Video Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...
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- - Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
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- - Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
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What can I do with it?
- - Read many video and audio file formats
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- - View information in different formats (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
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- - Customise these viewing formats
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- - Export information as text, CSV, HTML...
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- - Graphical Interface, Command Line, or library versions available
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OPTIONS
MediaInfo supports the following case-insensitive options:
- --Help, -h
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Display help and exit
- --Help-Inform
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Display help for --Inform option
- --Help-AnOption
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Display help for ``AnOption''
- --Version
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Display MediaInfo version and exit
- --Full, -f
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Full information Display (all internal tags)
- --Output=HTML
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Full information Display with HTML tags
- --Output=XML
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Full information Display with XML tags
- --Inform=FMT
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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
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Display list of --Inform parameters
- --Language=raw
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Display non-translated unique identifiers (internal text)
- --LogFile=LogFile
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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%"
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Then the display aspect ratio is printed out.
- - "Audio;%Format%"
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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 GNU General
Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation.
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- Display information about a video file
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- Display aspect ratio
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- Display aspect ration and audio format
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- AUTHOR
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