MediaInfo for Mac
Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
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MediaInfo overview
MediaInfo provides easy access to technical and tag information about video and audio files.
Features:
- Read many video and audio file formats
- View information in different formats (text, tree)
- Export information as text
- Graphical user interface, command line interface, or library (.dll/.so/.dylib) versions available
- Integrate with the shell (drag-and-drop, and Context menu)
Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.
What's new in version 26.10
MediaInfoLib source code has been audited by several security researchers and private individuals. Thank you to Yazan Balawneh (CyStack), Feng Ning (Innora), TristanInSec, Gareth Davidson (bitplane), Stanley Tang, Brandon Barrante, Erik White, Miklos Juhasz, iliasabk, buzz, mega-wli, cjee21, and many others for their reports and/or patches.
Translations
- Update of Turkish translation
- Update of Czech translation
- Update of Portuguese (Brazil) translation
- Update of Russian translation
Improvements and Additions
- Windows GUI: Fix missing translation for some UI elements
- macOS GUI: Add close button in Compare view's header
- Android GUI: avoid to ask for geolocation data access many times
- Android GUI: fix of a couple of crashes while migrating from Rx Java to Kotlin Coroutines
- Conformance checker: update with more precise error messages
- Conformance checker: tolerate common padding patterns found in some files
- MXF: cross-check header and footer values for timecode tracks, prioritizing the footer value
- MXF: support more ARRI camera metadata
- Global performance improvement when analyzing files with uncommon file extensions or junk files
- HEVC: support interlaced content
- HEVC: detect CBR and report nominal bitrate
- AV2: support v1.0.0 streams
- MP3: support gapless files
- MOV/MP4: support Auro CS layout information
- DTS:X: support supplemental channel layout
- EIA-608/708: report maximum number of characters per line
- TTML: report maximum number of characters per line
- MOV: support chpl version 0
- ELF: support RISC-V
- GIF: support XMP and loop count
- GIF: support animated GIFs
- I2632, ApeTag: handle cover images
- I2690, TAR: improve parsing of the TAR header to avoid more false positives
- I2706, MPEG-TS: fix infinite loop with some partial packets at the end of the file
- I2670, DVD-Video: preserve IFO stream languages after VOB merge
- I2589: fix MediaInfoList_Open file options not being used with the DLL API
- MXF: fix failure to detect sparse content in Teletext or OP47
- DTS: move DTS:X objects to their own field, matching Dolby Atmos
- Opus: fix 5.0 support and center-channel ordering
- MP3: detect headerless VBR after parsing finishes
- MP3: fix reconstructed settings for LAME CBR 256 and 320 kbps
- MP3: clean up some LAME version values
- MOV: fix mapping for Apple language tags >= 95
MediaInfo for Mac
$.99
In English
Version 26.10
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Aug 11, 2021
Version: 21.03
Give me what I want! Im using old version of mac still today, maybe that's why. Drab n drop in your bar, open it. Put your shot on it using Drab n drop. Final step is to clic on the up bar ( View -) TEXT . I skip and you skip the 0,99$.
Thanks.
Sep 19, 2020
Version: 20.08
It says it doesn't work with your version of MacOS (even though I'm using Mojave, which their own web site claims it work with it) and doesn't say which version it would work with. For some reason the Mac App store is giving me "cannot complete purchase" errors so I can't even buy that version. Total garbage.
Nov 9, 2019
Version: 19.09
Why the hell has the developer just added iCloud Drive to a simple app that shows media information!?!
I bet it's for his stupid idea that we should pay a subscription for this app after already paying for it in the first place! Greedy devs are everywhere these days...
Jun 10, 2019
Version: 19.04
The DMG file that we can download for the GUI v19.04 (not from the Mac App Store, but from the MacUpdate), can't be mounted. A Warning error from the DiskImageMounter reports that there are not mountable file systems. Same result if you go to the developer's site and download the same file. Thus, it seems that this is bug, a REAL BUG! from the developer. It seems that after v0.7.60 nothing is working well at MediaArea. They looked to monetize their app and...
