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MediaInfo

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

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac  $0.99 in Mac app store.
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3.9 / 5 Avg rating (8)
162likes
8comments
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Features

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  1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  2.  Shell integration
  3.  Portable
  4.  Side-by-Side Comparison
  5.  Multi Platform
  6.  Simple installation
  7.  Export to CSV
  8.  Export to HTML
  9.  Metadata Viewer

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  • foss-view, xylopire and Pander liked MediaInfo
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MediaInfo information

  • Developed by

    FR flagMediaArea.net
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9
  • Alternatives

    15 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Basque
    • Belarusian
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • French
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Lithuanian
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian

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Our users have written 8 comments and reviews about MediaInfo, and it has gotten 162 likes

MediaInfo was added to AlternativeTo by Kapela on May 11, 2009 and this page was last updated Jun 2, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
zapannda
Oct 26, 2023
0

Works perfectly and how it should be.

Top Negative Comment
Third Opinion
Feb 24, 2023
0

The "gold standard" for checking media like bitrate and codecs.

Alas, the real issue is that there are no real competitors in linux land :(

It works but it lacks in sooo many things:

First of all it only show vague values length, hours and minutes or, if shorter, minutes and seconds. Now tell me, how to compare similar rips? Kaboing!

Second, the interface is a bit messy and tells only half the truth of subtitles. Do not expect proper short description of the streams here (ironically this view is called easy).

Third, you probably have seen hundreds of MediaInfos (together with NFOs) and grew accustomed to that. Can you set this text view as standard to open up? Nope, of course not.

End of day, I still like it... but it's serious time for a complete revamp or better competitor.

PS: Depending on the job, sometimes it's actually easier/better to use MKVToolNix to get the desired info.

Third Opinion
Nov 30, 2023

OK, at least the third issue seems resolved: By now it opens in the last used view. Thanks!

zuopak
Oct 9, 2022
0

Virustotal doesn't show any suspicion anymore with the current installer (MediaInfo_GUI_22.09_Windows.exe). Also, I didn't see any installation of additional software (checkbox etc.).

beat_truck
May 29, 2018
0

Nice, simple program used to view detailed codec, bitrate, and other useful information about audio and video files. The Linux version works great in Mint and Lubuntu.

igenn
Mar 5, 2016
0

It is clean and works fine.

snakyjake3
Jan 8, 2015
0

MediaInfo_GUI_0.7.72_Windows.exe

OpenCandy Artemis Suspicious_GEN.F47V0107

itsmrcoolpb
May 6, 2015

Same here. detected malware by AVG.

justanotheruser
Aug 12, 2015

:-( "MediaInfo" app has adWare in the installer ! (v0.7.76) It installed “Active Discount” and the ridiculous sounding "open Photoshop" in the Add/Remove programs and Chrome extensions

IF you install the software from the developers homepage.

use this site instead and download the portableApp version http://www.videohelp.com/software/MediaInfo

I cleaned my system with AdwCleaner and herdprotect

[Edited by justanotheruser, August 12]

alter1608
Oct 14, 2015
EchoSeven
Sep 15, 2013
-1

Years have passed, and the windows variant are still communicating with malicious entities. which is unfortunate :(

OLD POST

scan from virustotal at 2013-09-15 04:33:09 UTC

MediaInfo 0.7.64

SHA256: fbc685cdfe89d63c30279f70905260a7537db4f461d037633da082b67390bea3 SHA1: dada7dbce6fcd7abcdf10f6d10be5d1373f8e624 MD5: c7379ab2a44990f80cc73f0a523b9623 File size: 4.3 MB ( 4499008 bytes ) File name: MediaInfo_GUI_0.7.64_Windows.exe File type: Win32 EXE Detection ratio: 2 / 46

Which is recognized to be OpenCandy. thus making you a definite target for ads. And potentially more dangerous types of malware.

link to scan of the latest MediaInfo at virustotal


while i checked Neutral at my opinion I do like this Program a lot. unfortunately I'll be sticking with the version 0.7.60 until i find an alternative.

[Edited by EchoSeven, May 29]

DiskCrasher
Jan 10, 2014
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What is MediaInfo?

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

MediaInfo features include:

  • Read many video and audio file formats
  • View information in different formats (text, sheet, tree, HTML…)
  • Customize these viewing formats
  • Export information as text, CSV, HTML…
  • Graphical user interface, command line interface, or library (.dll/.so/.dylib) versions available
  • Integrate with the shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
  • Internationalization: display any language on any operating system
  • Localization capability