MediaInfo for Mac
Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
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MediaInfo overview
Note: According to developer, the GUI for the commercial Mac App Store version is best suited for OS X.
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 26.05
- Update Spanish, Chinese, German translations
- Windows 11 Explorer: Optimize for ShellExt early return.
- Windows: Add dark icon
- KDE: Add support for context menu entry on KDE 6
- iOS GUI: Explicitly release iCloud-downloaded files (feedback requested)
- iOS GUI: Add dark/tinted icons
- macOS GUI: Add light/dark icon variant according to the latest macOS guidelines
- Android GUI: Permission request explanation for media location
- Android GUI: Improve listing performance with hundreds of files
- Android GUI: Improve colour contrast of button
- Android GUI: Slightly reducing release size
- Amiga .info: Initial and complete support
- APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4
- AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF
- AV1: Support of Annex B (raw) streams
- JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto
- PNG: Support of animated PNG
- HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+
- IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files
- XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files
- HEVC: Show the precise profile for Format Range generic profile
- Matroska: support RFC 9559 track flags (SDH, audio description, original, commentary)
- Matroska: Map Performer, Podcast URL, Genre tags
- MPEG-4: handle better some malformed stsd compressor names
- MP4/MOV: handle presence or lack (heuristic) of version/flags in meta boxes
- VorbisCom & MKV: Map ENCODER_OPTIONS from opusenc
- APE: Read DISC and DISCSUBTITLE tag
- WM: Read WM/SetSubTitle and WM/PartOfSet as part and part number
- MPEG-4: Read the com.apple.iTunes:DISCSUBTITLE tag
- Vorbis: Read the DISCSUBTITLE tag
- Vorbis: Write disc numbers into Part/Position and Part/Position_Total
- ID3v2: Map TSST to Part
- MZ/PE: Identify presence of Cargo Auditable data
- SMPTE registers: add more items
- MZ/PE: Get Extended DLLCharacteristics / CETCOMPAT
- MZ/PE: Extract SBAT from EFI files
- MZ/PE: Parse resources, Optional Header and Section Headers
- LXF: fix crashes with buggy files
- ID3v2: fix crashes with buggy content
- Channel splitting: fix crashes with buggy content
- Channel grouping: fix crashes with buggy content
- ID3v2: fix not skipping unknown character encoding
- MPEG-4: does not parse boxes with unknown version
- Filter C0 controls, DEL, and C1 controls
- DLL: Fix missing const in buffer API
- I2561, Dirac: fix freeze with some malformed content
- I2578, Matroska: fix bad behavior with content having more then 126 tracks
- I2557, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
- I2506, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
- MPEG-4 Visual: less false-positive detection
- AAC: fix false-positive display of gain_control with corrupted frames
- VP9: fix frame info with RGB content
- DV DIF: fix recorded date century
- ADM: fix potential crash
MediaInfo for Mac
Free
In English
Version 26.05
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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...
