mediaarea / mediainfo

Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

MediaInfo README

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

How to build MediaInfo

Build under macOS and Linux

First, you must create a directory which will receive the MediaInfo directory, and ZenLib and MediaInfoLib if you decide to compile them yourself.

In this document, this directory will be referred as $BUILD_DIR.

Dependencies under macOS

MacPorts

Some dependencies are available with MacPorts. To install MacPorts: https://guide.macports.org/#installing

port install autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig zlib wxWidgets-3.0

MediaArea tools

• libzen
• libmediainfo

Dependencies under Linux

Listing

Build tools

• git
• automake
• autoconf
• libtool
• pkgconfig
• make
• g++

MediaArea tools

• libzen0
• libmediainfo0

CLI and GUI dependencies

• zlib

GUI only dependencies

• wxwidgets

Ubuntu

Build tools and CLI/GUI dependencies

apt-get install git automake autoconf libtool pkg-config make g++ zlib1g-dev

MediaArea tools

Go to https://mediaarea.net/fr/MediaInfo/Download/Ubuntu and download the libmediainfo0, libmediainfo-dev, libzen0 and libzen-dev packages corresponding to your Ubuntu version. Then install them with :

dpkg -i libmediainfo* libzen*

GUI only dependencies

apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev

Fedora

Build tools and CLI/GUI dependencies

sudo yum install git automake autoconf libtool pkgconfig make gcc-c++ zlib-devel

MediaArea tools

Go to https://mediaarea.net/fr/MediaInfo/Download/Fedora and download the libmediainfo0, libmediainfo-devel, libzen0 and libzen-devel packages corresponding to your Fedora version and CPU architecture. Then install them with :

sudo yum install libmediainfo*.rpm libzen*.rpm

GUI only dependencies

sudo yum install wxGTK-devel desktop-file-utils

Debian

Build tools and CLI/GUI dependencies

apt-get install git automake autoconf libtool pkg-config make g++ zlib1g-dev

MediaArea tools

Go to https://mediaarea.net/fr/MediaInfo/Download/Debian and download the libmediainfo0, libmediainfo-dev, libzen0 and libzen-dev packages corresponding to your Debian version. Then install them with :

dpkg -i libmediainfo* libzen*

GUI only dependencies

apt-get install libwxgtk3.0-dev

OpenSUSE

Build tools and CLI/GUI dependencies

zypper install git automake autoconf libtool pkgconfig make gcc-c++ zlib-devel

MediaArea tools

Go to https://mediaarea.net/fr/MediaInfo/Download/openSUSE and download the libmediainfo0, libmediainfo-devel, libzen0 and libzen-devel packages corresponding to your OpenSuse version. Then install them with :

rpm -i libmediainfo* libzen*

GUI only dependencies

zypper install libqt4-devel libQtWebKit-devel update-desktop-files

Build MediaInfo CLI

When you have done all the prerequisites for your configuration, then build MediaInfo. We start with the CLI.

cd $BUILD_DIR
git clone https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo.git
cd MediaInfo/Project/GNU/CLI
./autogen.sh

Then, under macOS:

./configure --enable-staticlibs
make

Under Linux:

./configure --enable-shared
make

Or for statically linked executable, if you also build ZenLib and MediaInfoLib:

./configure --enable-staticlibs
make

Launch the CLI

./mediainfo

Build MediaInfo GUI

If you have already built the CLI, no need to run git twice. In fact, if you re-run git with an existing MediaInfo directory, git will complain and exit.

To compile MediaInfo GUI under macOS and Linux:

cd $BUILD_DIR
git clone https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo.git
cd MediaInfo/Project/GNU/GUI
./autogen.sh

Then, under macOS:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/wxWidgets.framework/Versions/wxWidgets/3/0/bin
./configure --enable-staticlibs
make

Under Linux:

./configure --enable-shared
make

Or for statically linked executable, if you also build ZenLib and MediaInfoLib:

./configure --enable-staticlibs
make

Launch the GUI

./mediainfo-gui

Optional : build ZenLib and MediaInfoLib

ZenLib

To compile ZenLib under macOS and Linux:

cd $BUILD_DIR
git clone https://github.com/MediaArea/ZenLib.git
cd ZenLib/Project/GNU/Library
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-static
make

MediaInfoLib

To compile MediaInfoLib under macOS and Linux:

cd $BUILD_DIR
git clone https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfoLib.git
cd MediaInfoLib/Project/GNU/Library
./autogen.sh
./configure --enable-static
make

MediaInfo - https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo Copyright (c) MediaArea.net SARL. All Rights Reserved.

This program is freeware under BSD-2-Clause license conditions. See the License for more information

mediainfo's Issues

MIXML node names: "Encoded_..." vs "Encoding_..."

In the new XML output, I saw that "Writing_library" is now "Encoded_library".
Additionally, more nodes related to encoding environment are also called "Encoded_...".

<Encoded_Library>XviD0024</Encoded_Library>
<Encoded_Library_Name>XviD</Encoded_Library_Name>
<Encoded_Library_Version>1.0.0 Beta2.5</Encoded_Library_Version>
<Encoded_Library_Date>UTC 2003-12-18</Encoded_Library_Date>

I found "Encoded" confusing/misleading - and would have rather expected it to be "Encoding_..."
My suggestion would be:
<Encoding_Library>XviD0024</Encoding_Library>
<Encoding_Library_Name>XviD</Encoding_Library_Name>
<Encoding_Library_Version>1.0.0 Beta2.5</Encoding_Library_Version>
<Encoding_Library_Date>UTC 2003-12-18</Encoding_Library_Date>

Any input from native English speakers on this one?

Version 0.94 and up are not able anymore to parse many MTS and M2TS without "freezing"

At least on Windows XP SP3 32-bit. The GUI will not even open on some M2TS files (Atmos), but stay in the process task bar.
00007.mts.txt
http://www.alluc.ee/l/Dolby-ATMOS-Helicopter-m2ts/cqj7ctv0

This issue affect the GUI and the CLI version (wait for ever without returning the value asked) as well.

Trouble opening files with special characters on Mac

I am having trouble opening files containing special characters (accents, umlauts, etc.) on Mac (e.g. 'Aventura - Obsesión.mp4'). The following Qt code (fi is a QFileInfo object) works fine for Windows (Open() returns 1), but fails on Mac (Open returns 0):

MediaInfo MI;
if(MI.Open(fi.absoluteFilePath().toStdWString()) == 0) {
video->addChild(this->createInfoItem(tr("Error"), "Could not open file."));
video->setHidden(false);
return;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance and best regards!

Jpg image identified as MPEG Audio

If I named the jpg file without extention '.jpg', the MediaInfo 0.7.94 will incorrectly detects it as MPEG Audio.
here is an example file:

General
Complete name : C:\Users\i\Desktop\AJPEGFile
Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 6.26 MiB
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
FileExtension_Invalid : m1a mpa1 mp1 m2a mpa2 mp2 mp3

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 1
Emphasis : 50/15ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 45.2 KiB (1%)

Detection of multi pages TIFF.

Here a sample: (10 pages)
multipage_tiff_example.tif.txt

JPEG files recognized as VIDEO

Hi!
Here you can see 2 bug reports about this problem
http://sourceforge.net/p/mediainfo/feature-requests/372/
http://sourceforge.net/p/mediainfo/bugs/897/
This is exactly what I have.
Actually, I don't think it's good idea to set this "magic" behavior by default. But at least it should be an option to disable it, isn't it?
Mediainfo version 0.7.79
OS Ubuntu 14.04

WEBP minimal parsing

WEBP doesn't display the height, width... or alpha channel informations, and eventually ANIMation info.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_lossless_bitstream_specification
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/riff_container

EDIT: I didn't tried yet, but TIKA and METADATA-EXTRACTOR are able to parse WEBP files.

XML output: DURATION node name uppercase?

MediaInfo (v0.7.85, Xubuntu 12.04 / 64bit) commandline (CLI):

The XML node for duration is written in uppercase, whereas all other node names are not 😞

Wouldn't it be more consistent (and esthetically more beautiful) to write "Duration" instead of "DURATION"? 😄

Display Aspect Ratio rounding issue ?

I could have misunderstood that:

Height                                   : 480
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Sampled_Width                            : 720
Sampled_Height                           : 480
Pixel aspect ratio                       : 0.877
Display aspect ratio                     : 1.316
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Original display aspect ratio            : 1.315
Original display aspect ratio            : 4:3

As for me 4/3 is not equal to 1.316, it seem that the PAR is used in the "raw" calculation field, but that doesn't really make sens to me: PAR = DAR / SAR.
To me its look like the PAR and the DAR are incorrect.

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Kind of stream                           : General
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Count of video streams                   : 1
Count of audio streams                   : 2
Count of text streams                    : 1
Count of menu streams                    : 1
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Video_Format_WithHint_List               : AVC
Codecs Video                             : AVC
Audio_Format_List                        : AAC / AC-3
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Audio codecs                             : AAC LC / AC3
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Text codecs                              : Timed
Menu_Format_List                         : Timed Text
Menu_Format_WithHint_List                : Timed Text
Menu codecs                              : text
Menu_Language_List                       : English
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Folder name                              : F:\!MEDIA_TEST_FILES\UMS Video Testing Suite (20150121)\TESTS\INTERNAL SUBTITLES
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Commercial name                          : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media / Version 2
Internet media type                      : video/mp4
Codec ID                                 : mp42
Codec ID                                 : mp42 (isom/iso2/avc1/mp41)
Codec ID/Url                             : http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html
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Codec                                    : MPEG-4
Codec                                    : MPEG-4
Codec/Extensions usually used            : mov mp4 m4v m4a m4b m4p 3ga 3gpa 3gpp 3gp 3gpp2 3g2 k3g jpm jpx mqv ismv isma ismt f4a f4b f4v
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Duration                                 : 22 s 523 ms
Duration                                 : 00:00:22.523
Duration                                 : 00:00:22;15
Duration                                 : 00:00:22.523 (00:00:22;15)
Overall bit rate mode                    : VBR
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
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Tagged date                              : UTC 2017-01-02 08:08:09
File creation date                       : UTC 2017-01-03 13:07:40.320
File creation date (local)               : 2017-01-03 15:07:40.320
File last modification date              : UTC 2017-01-02 08:08:16.000
File last modification date (local)      : 2017-01-02 10:08:16.000
Writing application                      : HandBrake 1.0.1 2016122900
Writing application                      : HandBrake 1.0.1 2016122900

Video
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Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
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Codec ID                                 : avc1
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Codec/Family                             : AVC
Codec/Info                               : Advanced Video Codec
Codec/Url                                : http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html
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Codec profile                            : High@L4
Codec settings                           : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames
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Codec_Settings_RefFrames                 : 5
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Duration                                 : 22 s 523 ms
Duration                                 : 22 s 523 ms
Duration                                 : 22 s 523 ms
Duration                                 : 00:00:22.523
Duration                                 : 00:00:22;15
Duration                                 : 00:00:22.523 (00:00:22;15)
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Bit rate                                 : 2 248 kb/s
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Width                                    : 720 pixels
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Pixel aspect ratio                       : 0.877
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Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
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Scan type                                : Progressive
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Stream size                              : 6.0 MiB
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Writing library                          : x264 - core 148 r2708 86b7198
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00:00:00.000                             : Chapter 1

UMS Bug Out of Sync_TX3G_subtitle.mp4.txt

Custom view empty, when opening by File/Folder ContexMenu

BUG
Set Custom as the standard Output format in Preferences.
If you use the ContextMenu on files or folders the Output is empty.
You need do something, that refresh the Output.
All other Output works fine, it's just the Custom

Steps to Reproduce:

Picture	Description
Pic1_ContextMenu	Chose a file or folder, open ContextMenu, click MediaInfo
Pic2_EmptyView	MediaInfo opens, then shows Nothing
Pic3_OpenPrefs	Open preferences and just press Cancel or OK
Pic4_ViewLoaded	This initiates a reload and the view is displayed

Preferences to Reproduce:
Setup > Output format > Custom

Happens for Preferences:
Setup > Language: any
Customize > Custom > Choose your desired custom text: any

Also at files without spaces in drive root.

REVTMD license

Hello,

I'm curious about the disabling of the REVTMD outout due to non-free licensing. I haven't been able to find any info about that schema's licensing. I saw a reference to the opinion of the FSF in the changelog, but no further info. Is it still restrictive? Seems baffling that the creators wouldn't make it open and free?

Best,

Kieran.

Segfault with MXF file

This sample causes a Segfault in Mediainfo. It was recorded with a Sony FS5/FS7 and is supposed to be encoded in a XDCAM compatible format.

/lib64/libpthread.so.0 [0x7fdbd2d50100]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib8File_Mxf23AcquisitionMetadata_AddEmRKSs+0x1a) [0x7fdbbd81ae1a]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib8File_Mxf35CameraUnitMetadata_AutoExposureModeEv+0x78) [0x7fdbbd7df218]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib8File_Mxf18CameraUnitMetadataEv+0x16d) [0x7fdbbd80c7ad]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib8File_Mxf10Data_ParseEv+0xc26) [0x7fdbbd813446]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib13File__Analyze11Data_ManageEv+0x9b) [0x7fdbbd4dd51b]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib13File__Analyze12Buffer_ParseEv+0x1b8) [0x7fdbbd4e0698]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib13File__Analyze25Open_Buffer_Continue_LoopEv+0xf0) [0x7fdbbd4e0810]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib13File__Analyze20Open_Buffer_ContinueEPKhm+0x578) [0x7fdbbd4e1018]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib18MediaInfo_Internal20Open_Buffer_ContinueEPKhm+0x36) [0x7fdbbd566c16]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib11Reader_File30Format_Test_PerParser_ContinueEPNS_18MediaInfo_InternalE+0x5d6) [0x7fdbbd870296]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib11Reader_File21Format_Test_PerParserEPNS_18MediaInfo_InternalERKSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE+0x3b2) [0x7fdbbd86f0d2]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib11Reader_File11Format_TestEPNS_18MediaInfo_InternalESbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE+0x45c) [0x7fdbbd86f89c]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib18MediaInfo_Internal5EntryEv+0x2bd6) [0x7fdbbd56ef96]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(_ZN12MediaInfoLib18MediaInfo_Internal4OpenERKSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE+0xfc) [0x7fdbbd56b3fc]
/opt/sb4/stage/lib/libmediainfo.so.0(MediaInfo_Open+0x82) [0x7fdbbd921332]

Why is the audio "Codec ID" numeric?

I have the case where the audio format is "ADPCM" - and it writes "Codec ID: 2"
Or "AAC", which has "Codec ID: 40".

For video codecs, I've seen it's usually a somewhat human readable string. Like "XVID" or "avc1".

Where does the value for "Codec ID" come from?
Seems like referencing to some sort of lookup table...

Thanks for any hints! :)

ADPCM is not correctly recognized in .act files

ADPCM is recognized as LPCM in a .act file (produced by MP3/MP4 recorders)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_(audio_format)

Here a file sample:
REC001.ACT.txt

Show the art work from IMDB

Can you show the art work from IMDB for tv shows and films when you open a film or tv show in MediaInfo.

Thanks

GUI font-face display bug ?

Hello,

Why your software Setting and about page showing strings, there fonts look like to thin in Chinese and Japanese ?

Please fix it.

Thanks.

Gnome and AppData keywords

Add kewords to mediainfo-gui.desktop and mediainfo-gui.appdata.xml

PCM WAV detected as Digital Theater Systems (DTS)

I've attached an example of a PCM Wave file that MediaInfo 0.7.91 incorrectly detects as 3/2-channel Digital Theater Systems (DTS). ffprobe and soxi both identify it as 1-channel 16-bit signed integer PCM.

0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.zip

$ mediainfo --version
MediaInfo Command line, 
MediaInfoLib - v0.7.91

$ mediainfo 0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav
General
Complete name                            : 0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav
Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 338 KiB
Duration                                 : 21 s 630 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 128 kb/s

Audio
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile                           : ES Matrix / Core
Mode                                     : 14
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 21 s 630 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 0 b/s
Channel(s)                               : 3 channels / 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Debug, Core_Core_AMODE=0, Core_Core_LFF=3 / Front: C, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 0 Hz
Frame rate                               : 2.155 FPS (3712 spf)
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 338 KiB (100%)

$ ffprobe 0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav
ffprobe version 3.1.7 Copyright (c) 2007-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 6.3.1 (GCC) 20161221 (Red Hat 6.3.1-1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --optflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -m64 -mtune=generic' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gcrypt --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcdio --enable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-nvenc --extra-cflags=-I/usr/include/nvenc --enable-openal --enable-opencl --enable-opengl --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-libmfx --enable-runtime-cpudetect
  libavutil      55. 28.100 / 55. 28.100
  libavcodec     57. 48.101 / 57. 48.101
  libavformat    57. 41.100 / 57. 41.100
  libavdevice    57.  0.101 / 57.  0.101
  libavfilter     6. 47.100 /  6. 47.100
  libavresample   3.  0.  0 /  3.  0.  0
  libswscale      4.  1.100 /  4.  1.100
  libswresample   2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libpostproc    54.  0.100 / 54.  0.100
Input #0, wav, from '0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav':
  Duration: 00:00:21.63, bitrate: 128 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 128 kb/s

$ soxi 0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav
Input File     : '0C97F897-4C11-4F65-9D3B-2F1BE80D2095.wav'
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 8000
Precision      : 16-bit
Duration       : 00:00:21.63 = 173040 samples ~ 1622.25 CDDA sectors
File Size      : 346k
Bit Rate       : 128k
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM

MP3 surround not identified as it

This is a rare format version use, though i accidentaly found some samples from a commercial website.
It's recognized as standard MP3, but i guess that in reality it's perhaps something like MPEG-2 Part 3 (ISO/IEC 13818-3) (but retrocompatible to standard MP3)

At my knowledge, only Playstation 3/4 are able to play them fully/correctly, except professional stuff and very few softwares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3_Surround
Some samples: MP3_SURROUND.zip.txt 😉

Option to exclude file path

Hi

Can you add an option to not include file path in "Complete name : " section?

For example when we set this option it should report like this:
Complete name : myfile.mkv

only file name, no path.

Thanks.

Question: DPLII recognition ?

I'm wondering if there is a way to know if an audio stream is Dolby Pro Logic II.
I mean, without trying to play it.

Audio bitrate not detected in Speex

Here is one sample:
talk109-q5.spx.txt

No bit depth informations as well.
PotPlayer identify it as 28.2 kHz and 16-bit

EDIT: No bitrate in this ADPCM stream as well:
stereo_44k.flv.txt

EBUCore XML: Typo "Writting"

In MediaInfo's EBUCore XML output (v1.6), there is a typo in a technical attribute string:

ebucore:technicalAttributeString typeLabel="WrittingLibrary"
ebucore:technicalAttributeString typeLabel="WrittingApplication"

There should only be one "t".
e.g. "WritingApplication"

More details about static build in README

This comment should go in the READM as an alternative/example for compiling with different options.

No "duration" detected in some WMV files

Here is the sample:
data1.wmv.txt

I guess that if the duration is not indicated in the Shorten, Atrac, ADTS or MLP formats, it's because there are raw streams not fully parsed, but in this WMV case that's look weird to me.
So perhaps this file is only malformed or corrupt ? In that case this issue is invalid and should be closed.

help.cpp Help_Security == Help_Nothing

V524 It is odd that the body of 'Help_Security' function is fully equivalent to the body of 'Help_Nothing' function. help.cpp 159

MIXML node names: Inconsistencies

I saw that CamelCase seems to be default now (See issue #48). Looks good 😄
However, there are some nodes with underscore in it, too.

What is the pattern/structure syntax intended for the new node names in MIXML?

Display different informations for the same JPEG image with and without IPTC

It's not a request, just a remark, as i guess your priority is video, and in a less mesure audio.

Just the fact of deleting the IPTC informations make MediaInfo identify differently the color space and the chroma subsampling.

As a side note, it recognize this uncompressed JPEG as lossy, but your "Compression" information display is perhaps based on the Huffman tables and in that case it's correct (Baseline DCT).

PROBLEM.zip

Build instructions

Please add build instructions to README.md and a link from https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Support/Build_From_Sources to https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo

maybe something like
apt install build-essential libtool automake libzen-dev pkg-config; cd Project/GNU/CLI; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make
only configure.ac is broken.

CLI exit

I suggest that the correct commands mediainfo --Version and mediainfo --Help exit with a non-error flag.

Invalid floating point operation while attempting to view the ISMV file properties.

This file was generated by FFmpeg and play fine:
ffmpeg -hwaccel auto -threads auto -i Unfold-Dolby-thedigitaltheater.mp4 -c:v libx264 -level 41 -movflags isml+frag_keyframe -c:a ac3 -ab 640k -f ismv test.ismv

test.ismv.txt

Note: MediaInfo worked fine with the others ISMV samples that i've downloaded.

EDIT: Reproduced with the latest beta.

Audio bit per sample ==> Bit0 ??? (in WMA, ASF, WMV)

I don't know what to think about that. Is that an expected result on such audio files ?

Audio files samples here:
acid_cbr12.asf.txt
Message_2020.wma.txt

VLC report it as 32-bit.

Mediainfo reports wrong AAC profile.

Hi,

Mediainfo (v0.7.85) reports wrong AAC profile on the video that can be found here : https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gi7nf

Once downloaded (146MiB), if I run mediainfo :

$  mediainfo -f Le_meilleur_des_mondes_-_Technologie__http-380__x2gi7nf.mp4 | grep -v Cover_Data | egrep -wi "aac|he"
Audio_Format_List                        : AAC
Audio_Format_WithHint_List               : AAC
Audio codecs                             : AAC LC-SBR
Format                                   : AAC
Commercial name                          : AAC
Format profile                           : HE-AAC / LC
Codec                                    : AAC LC-SBR
Codec                                    : AAC LC-SBR
Codec/Family                             : AAC

But mp4info (from mp4v2-utils) says this :

$ mp4info Le_meilleur_des_mondes_-_Technologie__http-380__x2gi7nf.mp4 | grep audio
2   audio   MPEG-4 AAC LC, 2649.814 secs, 64 kbps, 44100 Hz

and my Blu ray player is able to play it but cannot any of my videos containing HE-AAC audio.

I concluded that what mp4info says is right: this video does not contain HE-AAC audio but standard AAC-LC.

Can you check and fix this ?

PBCore2 character encoding issue with Encoded_Library_Settings and Producer_Reference

Hi,

I have a WAV file that shows different values for Encoded Library Settings and Producer_Reference when using Output=PBCore2 and -f language=raw --Output=XML I'm using 0.7.9.0 and Windows 10 .

Wav is in here:
af8098_ifard201678.2_club_orange_big_o_raw.zip

And here's what standard XML looks like, followed by pbcore (i'm pretty sure that these values map to each other?):

<Encoded_Library_Settings dt="binary.base64">w6tnHOKEosO/fw==</Encoded_Library_Settings>
<Producer_Reference>ÿ�</Producer_Reference>

<instantiationAnnotation annotationType="Encoded_Library_Settings">├½g�Ôäó├┐�</instantiationAnnotation>
<instantiationAnnotation annotationType="Producer_Reference">├┐�</instantiationAnnotation>

I wouldn't have really noticed this if not for python/lxml throwing up xml syntax errors for invalid characters with the pbcore output.

Best,

Kieran.

Unknown video codec in ShockWave container

Play fine in Web browser (Firefox):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipsetutorial/
Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners Lesson 1.7z.txt

Audio is recognized as MP3 and play fine. VLC (2.0.8) say that it as 2 different video streams, one being Motion JPEG and the other undefined.
It seem that it has been created with Camstasio Studio 5.0.

As i don't know if it's an expected result, so feel free to close that issue if it's not appropriate. Thanks.

PBM images identified as MP3

It is just a remark, not a request.

While testing, i was surprise to see that PBM images was recognized as MP3 file. Here is a sample:
marbles.pbm.txt

Feel free to close this "issue" after having reading it.

Duration's calcul for AAC audio files with ADTS header

Hello,

Do you plane to implement this ?

I just discover that the duration was not displayed with this kind of AAC files, so my open source media server that use your very useful program don't as well.

I search on Internet and find this explanation :

I believe these tools are not accurate because AAC files are an elementary stream, unlike MP4 or FLV which are containers. Streams are just a sequence of samples, without a global header.

To be able to determine the length of an AAC file exactly you would need to parse from start to end and count the samples.

The vast majoritiy of AAC files out there are not really written as raw AAC, but instead each sample has an ADTS header, which makes the parsing a lot easier. The format of the ADTS header is here.

The header will give you the sample rate (i.e. 48Khz, 44.1Khz, etc.) and the length of the sample. With the sample rate you can compute the exact duration of that sample, knowing that an AAC sample uncompresses to 1024 PCM samples. The sample length allows you to jump to the next sample, where you will find again the ADTS header.

Thank you for your amazing work :-D
Regards

XML output: Maverick underscores in node names?

Some node names have underscores in ways that seem uncommon/strange to me.

Examples:

• Trailing: <Channel_s_>2 channels</Channel_s_>
• Double: <Interleave__duration>998 ms (24.94 video frames)</Interleave__duration>

The "__" (double) underscores seem like some sort of grouping - but the trailing ones look somewhat accidential.

Are these "maverick underscores" on purpose?

FAQ: "No GUI for Linux" is outdated

The MediaInfo FAQ page seems to be outdated, regarding that there is no GUI for Linux:

Why isn't there a GUI version of MediaInfo for Linux?
VCL (the graphical library of Borland) is not portable (this is the only one), so I can't adapt the GUI for Linux.
If you know how to program with wxWidgets (a standard graphical library), and are interested in adapting MediaInfo to wxWidgets, then I am interested. Please contact me!

mediainfo crash

program version: MediaInfo_GUI_0.7.83_Windows.exe
OS version: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit (10.0.10586)

issue:
MediaInfo constantly crashes. Sometimes, upon system restart, it will work for 30 seconds before crashing. After this, any launch of the program will result in an immediate crash (whether starting the executable or starting from the context menu of a media file). I have reinstalled the application several times. The only window displayed is this:

Compatibility modes in Windows do not fix this issue. Running the program as administrator does not fix this issue.

I can't find a crash log in MediaInfo's program folder and don't know how to debug it. From the symptoms it seems like conflict with another program, but I have no way of knowing what application that could be. I do have Corsair Link, MSI Afterburner & D3DGear installed, as well as Nvidia Graphics Drivers and the Geforce Experience software.

MKV file framerate: there is a difference between "59.940 (60000/1001)" and "59.940" but it display always as "59.940"

Just like it is already for 23.976 (24000/1001) files - MediaInfo displays different flags for the different 23.976 "modes":

• 23.976 (quite common but not standard, but should be display, so you know it's flagged like that)
• 23.976 (23976/1000) (quite common but not standard, but should be display, so you know it's flagged like that)
• 23.976 (24000/1001) (The real one) which is already implemented in MediaInfo and display such files like they are

I also want it for 59.940 (60000/1001) files. I have different files, some are flagged as "59.940" and some "59.940 (60000/1001)". But also the "59.940 (60000/1001)" files are displayed as "59.940" which is not true.

XML output: Only FFV1 parameters are CamelCase

MediaInfo CLI (v0.7.85, Xubuntu 12.04 / 64bit):

In the XML output of an FFV1.3 file, I saw that FFV1 properties are written in a different fashion than the rest of the nodes:

<MaxSlicesCount>24</MaxSlicesCount>
<ErrorDetectionType>Per slice</ErrorDetectionType>

But the rest of the XML nodes are not CamelCase, but separated by underscore. For example:
<coder_type>Golomb Rice</coder_type>

Is that on purpose?

player website button for Matroska points to invalid URL

When loading a MKV file in MediaInfo (v0.7.85, on Xubuntu 12.04 / 64bit), I get a "page not found" error when clicking on the button labelled:

"Go to the website of a player for this file"

It currently points to "http://packs.matroska.org/" - which doesn't exist (anymore).

I guess it should (?) point to one of these URLs (depending on the OS MediaInfo is run on):

• Linux: https://matroska.org/downloads/linux.html
• Mac OSX: https://matroska.org/node/62
• Windows: https://matroska.org/downloads/windows.html

MediaInfo standalone binary

Not sure if this is the place to ask but i'm trying to build and compile MediaInfo to one standalone binary with all the dependancies bundled up inside it so no further installations will be required on Ubuntu 12.04.

I have followed the readme file and got the mediaInfo executable but when i try to run it i get:
error while loading shared libraries: libzen.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any help?

Could not detect PCM audio format in Wave file

I've attached an example Wave file that mediainfo does not detect as PCM encoded.

CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.zip

$ unzip -q CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.zip
$ mediainfo --version                                                                       
MediaInfo Command line, 
MediaInfoLib - v0.7.89
$ mediainfo CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.wav                                        
General
Complete name                            : CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.wav
Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 328 KiB

However, soxi correctly detects it as PCM:

$ soxi CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.wav                                             

Input File     : 'CBD6DCA3-22DE-42D2-A5AA-995051A8D0E5.wav'
Channels       : 2
Sample Rate    : 8000
Precision      : 16-bit
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM

I'm running Fedora 24.

/cc @whenry

No audio sample frequency detected in a RealAudio Lossless stream

Here is the sample:
luckynight.rmvb.txt

Identified as 44100 Hz and 16-bit by PotPlayer.

AVI: 5 channel audio detected as 6 channel

I have an AVI file with 5 PCM audio channels in one track:
http://download.das-werkstatt.com/pb/contribs/files/5ch_pcm.avi

MediaInfo says it has 6 channels:

General
Complete name                            : D:\capture\5ch_pcm.avi
Format                                   : AVI
Format/Info                              : Audio Video Interleave
File size                                : 6.47 MiB
Duration                                 : 2 s 480 ms
Overall bit rate                         : 21.9 Mb/s

Video
ID                                       : 0
Format                                   : FFV1
Format version                           : Version 1
Codec ID                                 : FFV1
Duration                                 : 2 s 480 ms
Bit rate                                 : 17.9 Mb/s
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 5:4
Frame rate                               : 25.000 FPS
Standard                                 : PAL
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 1.729
Stream size                              : 5.30 MiB (82%)
coder_type                               : Range Coder

Audio
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : 1
Duration                                 : 2 s 98 ms
Source duration                          : 2 s 517 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 3 840 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 1.15 MiB (18%)
Alignment                                : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration                     : 39  ms (0.98 video frame)

But VLC, Audacity, Windows Explorer and ffprobe correctly report only the 5 channels 😕
Here's (a cut) ffprobe output:

  Duration: 00:00:02.48, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 21871 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: ffv1 (FFV1 / 0x31564646), yuv420p, 720x576, 18222 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, 5 channels, s16, 3840 kb/s

Therefore, I assume that MediaInfo's interpretation is the incorrect one.
😢

Am I the only person who finds this thing a pain to work with?

Mediainfo is NOT case-insensitive! I type "mediainfo" at the command line and (I'll copy and paste here) it tells me to use "MediaInfo --Help". When I enter this exactly as shown I get "zsh: command not found: MediaInfo
".

I've wasted five minutes trying different variations of upper and lower case and still can't get the help menu to appear. I've used Media info before but abandoned it because it is a major nuisance getting the syntax right. I was hoping somebody would have corrected this by now, but it appears not so I guess I'll have to try and figure out some other way to inject the data into my scripts. Pity, because it is quite the comprehensive program, just not worth the inconsistent and mostly unneeded capitalization.

Cross compiling the MediaInfo DLL itself?

I successfully xcompiled the mediainfo CLI statically as well as LibZen and LibMediainfo.
But how would I compile the DLL file from GNU/Linux to Windows? I haven't found a configuration option for it (yet)

MIXML: https to XSD might be a problem

There are https:// links pointing to the (not yet existing) XSD file for the future MediaInfo XML schema definition.

This might cause a problem for validating applications, since not all of them are to be expected to support HTTPS.