MediaInfo Alternatives

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 app in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to MediaInfo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and FFmpeg apps. The best MediaInfo alternative is GSpot, which is free. Other great apps like MediaInfo are MediaInfoXP, VideoInspector, PlotBitrate and Scoop!.

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MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file. Supports many audio and video formats, with...

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GSpot
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
11 GSpot alternatives
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.
- - GSpot is the most popular Windows alternative to MediaInfo.
- - GSpot is the most popular free alternative to MediaInfo.
GSpot has no features, suggest some!
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 2.70a, released on 22 February 2007, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Comments about GSpot as a Alternative to MediaInfo
Most users think GSpot is a great MediaInfo alternative.
Raiz
Displays all the info of an audio/video file that mediainfo displays AFAIK
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MediaInfoXP
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Free • Open Source
Windows
15 MediaInfoXP alternatives
GUI for MediaInfo, an open source tool for displaying technical information about media files.
- - MediaInfoXP is the most popular Open Source alternative to MediaInfo.
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MediaInfoXP Features
1. Ad-freeMediaInfoXP doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Content analysis
AAC
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Guest
Simple UI that can integrate into shell.
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VideoInspector
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
11 VideoInspector alternatives
VideoInspector is a tool designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files.
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VideoInspector Features
1. PortableVideoInspector can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Matroska
Information gathering
Discontinued
KC Softwares has shut down all activities by end of October 2023.
PlotBitrate
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
FFmpeg
Python
2 PlotBitrate alternatives
These little gem returns the bit rate, lows and highs, of a movie in a nice graph. Relies on solid ffmpeg :D
- - PlotBitrate is the most popular Linux alternative to MediaInfo.
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PlotBitrate Features
1. Works OfflinePlotBitrate can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
2. Ad-freePlotBitrate doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Support for 4KPlotBitrate supports watching, rendering or exporting 4K content (also know as UHD or Ultra HD).
4. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in PlotBitrate without registration.
Add the bit rate option
Graphs
Scoop!
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
7 Scoop! alternatives
Displays all sort of technical information from any media file. You can filter data to compare, print and export information.
- - Scoop! is the most popular Mac alternative to MediaInfo.
- - Scoop! is the most popular commercial alternative to MediaInfo.
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AVInaptic
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Free • Open Source
Windows
11 AVInaptic alternatives
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).
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1. PortableAVInaptic can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
MovieScanner
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
12 MovieScanner alternatives
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.
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MovieScanner Features
1. PortableMovieScanner can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Gtk
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Guest
You get less data but the most important.
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PlayTime
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Free • Open Source
Windows
4 PlayTime alternatives
Quickly calculate the total play time of a list of most any music or movie file. That was the original request. Due to further user requests, PlayTime has since been expanded to be a fairly complete front-end for the MediaInfo library.
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PlayTime Features
1. PortablePlayTime can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Moo0 Video Info
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Windows
4 Moo0 Video Info alternatives
Moo0 Video Info is a very easy tool which can dispaly each video / audio file's information.
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Invisor
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
5 Invisor alternatives
Invisor displays technical information about your video, audio and photo files with ability to compare collected data.
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CodecInstaller
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
11 CodecInstaller alternatives
Ever had a movie where you could only hear the sound and there were no video? Or only video and no sound?
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Multiple languages
VideoSpec
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
12 VideoSpec alternatives
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.
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Discontinued
The program is no longer developed. Last version, v.0.9.8, released in 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website