winget install --id MediaArea.MediaInfoAbout MediaInfo-CLI
A convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files from command line.
What's new in 26.05
Thanks to cjee21, bitplane, tautropfli, zigazajc007 and more for their work on this MediaInfo version! + Amiga .info: Initial and complete support + APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4 + AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF + AV1: Support of Annex B (raw) streams + JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto + PNG: Support of animated PNG + HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+ + IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files + XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files + HEVC: Show the precise profile for Format Range generic profile + Matroska: support RFC 9559 track flags (SDH, audio description, original, commentary) + Matroska: Map Performer, Podcast URL, Genre tags + MPEG-4: handle better some malformed stsd compressor names + MP4/MOV: handle presence or lack (heuristic) of version/flags in meta boxes + VorbisCom & MKV: Map ENCODER_OPTIONS from opusenc + APE: Read DISC and DISCSUBTITLE tag + WM: Read WM/SetSubTitle and WM/PartOfSet as part and part number + MPEG-4: Read the com.apple.iTunes:DISCSUBTITLE tag + Vorbis: Read the DISCSUBTITLE tag + Vorbis: Write disc numbers into Part/Position and Part/Position_Total + ID3v2: Map TSST to Part + MZ/PE: Identify presence of Cargo Auditable data + SMPTE registers: add more items + MZ/PE: Get Extended DLLCharacteristics / CETCOMPAT + MZ/PE: Extract SBAT from EFI files + MZ/PE: Parse resources, Optional Header and Section Headers x LXF: fix crashes with buggy files x ID3v2: fix crashes with buggy content x Channel splitting: fix crashes with buggy content x Channel grouping: fix crashes with buggy content x ID3v2: fix not skipping unknown character...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26.05 | Unknown | Thanks to cjee21, bitplane, tautropfli, zigazajc007 and more for their work on this MediaInfo version! + Amiga .info: Initial and complete support + APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4 + AV2: Initial support, raw and in... |
| 26.01 | Unknown | + More coherency/integrity checks, sponsored by Austrian Mediathek + MXF: fix crash with some 0 byte audio packets + MPEG-4: C2PA support + ID3v2: support of Olympus voice recorder metadata + Matroska: show block additio... |
| 25.10 | Unknown | + MXF: crosscheck of ADM profiles + MXF: experimental ARRI UL support, more video streams detected + TTML: better support files with SMPTE timecode and ticks instead of frame rate + MXF: update UL names from the MXF regi... |
| 25.09 | Unknown | + ADM: Dolby E profile for emission conformance checker + AAC: show when PNS is ued + MPEG-TS: map message_id code to the stored message character string + AC-4: Enhancement to Presentation Role display + AC-4: Add Bitst... |
| 25.07 | Unknown | + Update Italian translation + MPEG-4 : Support of Spherical Video 2 + MPEG-4 : Spherical Video improvements + MPEG-4: Support of location in mdta + MPEG-4: Parse XMP metadata (thanks to cjee21) + MPEG-4: Better support... |
| 25.04 | Unknown | + MP4: Detect caption presence in the middle of the file for AVC with CEA-608 in SEI + MP4: Support of Spherical Video metadata + MP4: support of com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709 + IAMF: Basic (name, sampling rate, a... |
| 25.03 | Unknown | + I2218, TTML: detect IMSC Rosetta + MXF: support of HDR Vivid Metadata + AVS3 Video: support for AVS3 Video according to T/AI 109.2 + MP4: Display of operating system and hardware e.g. Android or iOS + MP4: Handle loci... |
| 24.12 | Unknown | + Windows: Windows Explorer context menu and tooltip on Windows 11 (thanks to cjee21) + Windows: native ARM64 library for an overall improved performance (thanks to cjee21) + Windows: implement signing of uninstaller (th... |
| 24.11 | Unknown | + New Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) translation + Update Belarusian translation + Windows: Full 64-bit version (thanks to cjee21) + Windows: Improved support of High DPI (thanks to cjee21) + Windows: Improved support of... |
| 24.06 | Unknown | + Windows GUI: Dark/Light theme preference is saved + Windows GUI: Fix opening subdirectories + Windows GUI: Add translations for Windows GUI theme menu + Windows GUI: Dark mode for HTML view + Windows GUI: Add 608/708 c... |
| 24.05 | Unknown | No notes |
| 24.04 | Unknown | No notes |
| 24.03 | Unknown | No notes |
| 23.11 | Unknown | No notes |
| 23.10 | Unknown | Version 23.10, 2023-10-04 ------------- + Italian language update + Languages: add 'fil' (Filipino) + Support of MPEG-H in MPEG-TS + MOV/MP4: caption probing time expanded from ~15s to ~30s + MPEG-7 and DVD-Video: provid... |
| 23.07 | Unknown | Version 23.07, 2023-07-12 ------------- + USAC conformance checker: update DRC presence check + USAC conformance checker: sbgp presence check + USAC conformance checker: difference between extra zero bytes and other extr... |
| 23.04 | Unknown | Version 23.04, 2023-04-26 ------------- + MXF: support of SMPTE ST 381-4 (AAC in MXF) + DTS: show MA or HRA tip in commercial name for DTS:X + DTS: detection of DTS:X not lossless + APT-X100 a.k.a. Cinema DTS: initial su... |
| 23.03 | Unknown | Version 23.03, 2023-03-29 ------------- + DTS: Detection of IMAX Enhanced + MOV/MP4: Add HDR Vivid format support + HEVC: Add HDR Vivid format support + MXF/PCM: detect silent tracks (full parsing only) + Monkey's Audio:... |
| 22.12 | Unknown | Version 22.12, 2022-12-22 ------------- + WebVTT: more information (duration, start/end timestamp, count of lines...) + MP4/MOV: support of FLAC + MP4/MOV: support of LanguageIETF + ProRes: parse FFmpeg glbl atom for get... |
| 21.09 | Unknown | No notes |