FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
- Audio Converter
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
+1GSpot is a Windows-based freeware designed to identify codecs used in video files. In addition, the application checks if the required DirectShow filters or Video for Windows codecs are installed and configured for proper playback.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+2A simple GUI for MediaInfo, an open source tool for displaying technical information about media files.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
AVInaptic is a program with a simple GUI (GTK +2) that analyzes file type AVI, ASF / WMV, MP4/MOV, Matroska (MKV), OGG, OGM, FLV, and shows a lot of information about technical characteristics (useful in predicting if the movie will be read from your portable player).
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Chocolatey
Displays all sort of technical information from any media file. You can filter data to compare, print and export information.
- Metadata Viewer
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
MediaTab provides you information of your multimedia files, like MediaInfo does, but without the need to launch an application. MediaTab use the power of MediaInfo integrating it on your operating system.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
Moo0 Video Info is a very easy tool which can dispaly each video / audio file's information.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
VideoSpec is a free AppleScript studio App (Xcode 3.0 on Leopard) making use of MediaInfo CLI, MPlayer, FFmpeg, qt_tools and AtomicParsley binaries to display detailed informations on video files. Compatibility of analyzed media file with QuickTime Player v.7.6.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
Invisor displays technical information about your video, audio and photo files with ability to compare collected data.
- Metadata Viewer
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
With "Media Info+" app you can immediately extract all possible Media Details Information from every Video, Audio or Music file in your Device.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
+1This is a tool to analyze media files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.
- Metadata Viewer
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows