MEDIAINFO(1) User Commands MEDIAINFO(1)
NAME
MediaInfo - command line utility to display information about audio/video files
MediaInfo-Gui - graphical utility to display information about audio/video files
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 file
What 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
Dislpay 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 <hyperair@debian.org> 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.
MediaInfo 0.7.52 2012-06-03 MEDIAINFO(1)