MediaInfo

Unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio.

MediaInfo is an open-source tool from MediaArea that displays technical and tag data for video and audio files. It presents information on containers, video streams, audio streams, text/subtitles and chapters, covering formats such as MPEG-4, QuickTime, Matroska, AVI, MPEG-PS, MPEG-TS, MXF, GXF, LXF, WMV, FLV and Real, along with codecs including H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, FFV1, MP3, AC3, DTS, AAC, FLAC and various subtitle formats.

The tool offers multiple view formats (text, sheet, tree, HTML) that can be customised, and exports data as text, CSV or HTML. It is available as a graphical user interface, a command line interface, and library versions (.dll/.so/.dylib), with shell integration through drag-and-drop and context menus. Internationalisation and localisation are supported. MediaInfo runs on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspbian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, ArchLinux, Gentoo, Flatpak, Snap and AWS Lambda, and can also be tested online without installation. It is distributed under a BSD-style open-source license, with donations accepted to support development.

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