SYNOPSIS
- mediainfo [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
- mediainfo --Inform=FMT FileName
- mediainfo-gui [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]
- mediainfo-gui --Inform=FMT FileName
DESCRIPTION
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio fileWhat information can I get from MediaInfo?
- - General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
- - Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
- - Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
- - Text: language of subtitle
- - Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
What format does MediaInfo support?
- - Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
- - Video Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...
- - Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
- - Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
What can I do with it?
- - Read many video and audio file formats
- - View information in different formats (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
- - Customise these viewing formats
- - Export information as text, CSV, HTML...
- - Graphical Interface, Command Line, or library versions available
OPTIONS
MediaInfo supports the following case-insensitive options:- --Help, -h
- Display help and exit
- --Help-Inform
- Display help for --Inform option
- --Help-AnOption
- Display help for ``AnOption''
- --Version
- Display MediaInfo version and exit
- --Full, -f
- Full information Display (all internal tags)
- --Output=HTML
- Full information Display with HTML tags
- --Output=XML
- Full information Display with XML tags
- --Inform=FMT
-
Template defined information display.
FMT is ``[xxx;]Text'', where xxx can be any one of General, Video, Audio, Text, Chapter, Image, or Menu. Text can be the template text, or a filename in the form of file:///path
See --Info-Parameters for available parameters in the text. Parameters must be surrounded by ``%''.
- --Info-Parameters
- Display list of --Inform parameters
- --Language=raw
- Display non-translated unique identifiers (internal text)
- --LogFile=LogFile
- Save the output in LogFile
EXAMPLES
Display information about a video file
$ mediainfo foo.mkv
Display aspect ratio
$ mediainfo --Inform="Video;%DisplayAspectRatio%" foo.mkv $ mediainfo --Inform="Video;file://Video.txt" foo.mkv
Both forms are equivalent if Video.txt contains:
%DisplayAspectRatio%
Display aspect ration and audio format
$ mediainfo --Inform="file://Text.txt foo.mkv
If Text.txt contains:
- - "Video;%DisplayAspectRatio%"
- Then the display aspect ratio is printed out.
- - "Audio;%Format%"
- Then the audio format is printed out.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Chow Loong Jin <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permissions is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.