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MediaInfo is a cross-platform, free and open source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. It is used in many programs such as XMedia Recode, MediaCoder, eMule, and K-Lite Codec Pack. It can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied . MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. Matroska, WebM, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real, DivX, XviD) as well as lesser known or emerging formats. In 2012 MediaInfo 0.7.57 was also distributed in the PortableApps format.

Source code

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
free software
Official website
MediaArea.net/MediaInfo
Image
MediaInfo (2).png
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source code repository URL
github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo
Commons category
MediaInfo
programmed in
C++
GUI toolkit or framework
command-line interface
inception
2002-12-28
software version identifier
26.01
software quality assurance
continuous integration
language of work or name
English language
publication date
2002-12-28
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Technical information
  • Supported input formats
  • Supported operating systems
  • Licensing
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

MediaInfo is a cross-platform, free and open source program that displays technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files. It is used in many programs such as XMedia Recode, MediaCoder, eMule, and K-Lite Codec Pack. It can be easily integrated into any program using a supplied . MediaInfo supports popular video formats (e.g. Matroska, WebM, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real, DivX, XviD) as well as lesser known or emerging formats. In 2012 MediaInfo 0.7.57 was also distributed in the PortableApps format.

MediaInfo provides a command-line interface for displaying the provided information on all supported platforms. Additionally, a GUI for viewing the information on Microsoft Windows and macOS is provided.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MediaInfo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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