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Get Information of Media Files with MediaInfo

If you deal with media files like audio and video you will sometimes need more technical information about such files, like codec, bitrate, fps, aspect ratio and more. To gather such information there is a nice tool called “MediaInfo” available for download. Once installed MediaInfo just right click on your media file and open it with MediaInfo. That’s all.

Which information does it display?

• 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

Which kind of formats (containers) does it support?

• Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)…
  (Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC…)
• Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF…
• Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI…

For more details visit the MediaInfo homepage. Download is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.