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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 (container) does MediaInfo 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...

What can I do with it?

* Read many video and audio file formats
* Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
* You can customise these views
* Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
* Graphical Interface, or Command Line, or DLL
* Integration with MS-Windows shell (drag 'n' drop, and Context menu)
* Internationalisation: any language display on any version of your Operating System

What's New:

Version 0.7.7.6, 2008-09-12

+ Chinese Simplified language updated
+ [2088009] Flac: Picture tag support
+ Flac: Support of Id3v1&2 in a Flac file
+ WM (ASF/WMV/WMA): detection of wrong framerate in header, trusting now the timestamp instead of the header
+ WM (ASF/WMV/WMA): detection of framerate from the timestamp when the framerate info is not available in the header
+ MPEG-4 with AVC: Added information about buggy files readable by all players except iPods
+ OGG: OGG with FLAC (pre- and post-FLAC 1.1.1) support
x FLI/FLC: were not correctly detected
x MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT: the complete stream was parsed, may be very long
x Wavpack: duration and bitrate were false
x #2071681, MPEG Audio: handling of truncated MPEG audio frames at the end of a file
x #2032760, MPEG Audio: handling of MPEG Audio files with junk at the end
x #2085149, Id3v2: was crashing with some malformed tags