GSpot 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.




MediaInfo is described as 'Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. Supports many audio and video formats, with different methods of viewing information' and is a very popular Metadata Viewer in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MediaInfo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best MediaInfo alternative is GSpot, which is free. Other great apps like MediaInfo are MediaInfoXP, MediaInfo Lite, MediaTab and MovieScanner.
GSpot 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.




A simple GUI for MediaInfo, an open source tool for displaying technical information about media files.

This is a tool to analyze media files. It can give you information about the audio and video format, video resolution, duration, etc.


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.




Small utility to scan your video files and store the media details (audio, video, subtitles) into a small database. Support export end printing of data, multiple databases, external subtitle, HDR and 3D detection, etc.



With "Media Info+" app you can immediately extract all possible Media Details Information from every Video, Audio or Music file in your Device.




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).



Invisor displays technical information about your video, audio and photo files with ability to compare collected data.


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.

Displays all sort of technical information from any media file. You can filter data to compare, print and export information.



AVIcodec is a free multimedia file analyser for Windows.
Find avi and divx codecs, solve codecs issues.

Displays all the info of an audio/video file that mediainfo displays AFAIK