mediainfo - Man Page
Examples (TL;DR)
- Display metadata for a given file in the console:
mediainfo file - Store the output to a given file along with displaying in the console:
mediainfo --Logfile=out.txt file - List metadata attributes that can be extracted:
mediainfo --Info-Parameters
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
- --Output=OLDXML
Full information Display with XML tags using the older MediaInfo schema
- --Output=JSON
Full information Display using JSON
- --Output=EBUCore
Full information Display with EBUCore compliant XML tags
- --Output=EBUCore_JSON
Full information Display with EBUCore 1.8 compliant JSON
- --Output=PBCore
Full information Display with PBCore compliant XML tags
- --Output=PBCore2
Full information Display with PBCore 2.0 compliant 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
Display 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.