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Title: MediaInfo
Author/Publisher: Official Website
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 0.7.25 (details)
OS Support: Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows Me Windows 2000 Windows XP Linux/Unix
License: Open Source
Date Added: Mar 10, 2006
Last Updated: Nov 14, 2009
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Revision History:

Version 0.7.25
  • Release Date: Nov 14, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + MediaInfo (customized) with HTTP input: User Agent setting
  • + #2896693, MPEG-TS: skipping some malformed PMT (with elementary_PID=0)
  • x #2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS (again)
  • x #2894411, MPEG Audio: UserDefined Covers replace other covers types
  • x MPEG Audio: Some profiles were not displayed
  • x RealMedia: Some Titles were not displayed
  • x Matroska: Wrong detection of 6-channel Wavpack (detected as 2-channel)
Version 0.7.24
  • Release Date: Oct 31, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + MPEG-4: DVCPRO HD detection
  • + WAV: better handling of Wave Extension codec IDs
  • + MPEG Audio: profile and extension display
  • + MPEG-TS: More information for ADTS in non-audio PES ID.
  • + FLV: test of video bitrate info integrity
  • + MPEG-4: "sbtl" subtitles support
  • + MPEG-4: old-style Apple language codes support
  • + MPEG-4: XDCAM support
  • + MPEG Video: vbv_buffer_size info
  • + AVC: cpb_size_value info
  • + VC-1: hrd_buffer info
  • x #2882376, AVCHD: reports some incorrect AVCHD framerate
  • x MPEG-4: some Pixel Aspect Ratio settings were not handled
  • x Customized output: respect of carriage return from the platform
  • x MPEG-TS demuxer: more tolerance of bad blocks
Version 0.7.23
  • Release Date: Oct 17, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + OGG: more details for MPEG-4 Visual, MPEG Audio and AC-3
  • + MPEG-4: more information for MPEG Audio streams
  • + MPEG-4: more information for ADTS streams
  • + MPEG-TS: more information for ADTS streams
  • + QCP (RFC 3625) format support
  • + Refactoring of parsers, for more speed and less false-positives
  • + WAV: INFO chunk parsing
  • x Blu-ray directory analyzing was broken
  • x VC-1: some streams were not detected
  • x AMR in MP4: Resolution set to 13 or 14 bits instead of default 16 bits
  • x Help, Known parameters was hanging up
  • x AVC: frame rate was wrong for progressive streams with frame doubling
  • x MPEG-TS: crash while parsing some streams with specific ATSC event_id
Version 0.7.22 Version 0.7.21
  • Release Date: Sep 5, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + More permissive license for redistribution only Redistribution license is intended for companies with legal issues (if they can not deal with GPL)
  • + AVC: Support of frame doubling/tripling
  • + AVC: Colour description
  • + QuickTime: support of external files parsing
  • x #2828430, Quicktime: 180 degrees rotation display was not displayed
  • x MPEG-TS: whole file was parsed (long)
  • x MPEG Video / MPEG-4 Visual: new algorithm for library name detection
  • x #2844911, AAC in 3GP: false detection of SBR and PS
  • x MKV: some chapters had timecode issues
Version 0.7.20
  • Release Date: Aug 1, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + TAK format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
  • + #2822681, Quicktime: Rotation display (from iPhone...)
  • + ASP.net web application example
  • + Java/JNA, Linux: dynamic load of libzen if not in LD_PATH
  • x #2823702, No files processed in subdirs
  • x MPEG-PS: Some durations were a bit too long
  • x MPEG-PS: Better handling of PTS/DTS for private and extension streams
  • x ADTS: Handling of SBR and/or PS streams
Version 0.7.19
  • Release Date: Jul 18, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + ALS raw files support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
  • + LA (Lossless Audio, old) support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
  • + SLS detection, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
  • + AAC: forcing SBR/PS when it is implicit (if <=24KHz, if 1 channel)
  • + AVC: Closed captions detection
  • + #2813919, APE: CompressionLevel
  • + XML output: track names are changed, for a better usability by XML parsers
  • x MKV: Original display aspect ratio was not displayed
  • x #2817479, Blu-ray/M2Ts: crash with some specific file names
  • x MXF: the whole file was parsed, parsing now only the useful part
Version 0.7.18
  • Release Date: Jul 4, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Danish translation added
  • + Albanian translations updated
  • + Shell extension and InfoTip handling re-organization
  • + Mac OS X: Drag and Drop
  • + MXF support
  • + Blu-ray: BDMV directory parsing
  • + Blu-ray: clpi/mpls files support
  • + M2TS: Language if the .clpi blu-ray file is found
  • + OpenSolaris support
  • + MPEG-4 Visual: support of Sony SMC (security video) tags
  • + MPEG-4 Visual: ASP profile was wrongly displayed
  • + Mac OS X: Creation of universal and 10.4 compatible binaries option
  • x Mac OS X: no more double-carriage return in Text view
  • x #2786634, Mac OS X: files with non-US characters were not opened
Version 0.7.17
  • Release Date: Jun 20, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Ukrainian translations updated
  • + Some tests about the 32 or 64-bit version of the OS are made at install
  • + #2790156, Folders context menu option
  • + Python : adaptation for version 3
  • + Command line: XML output (thanks to Steen Jost Jensen)
  • + MPEG-PS/TS: ATSC Closed captions (both EIA-608 and EIA-708) detection
  • + MPEG-PS/TS: Language of closed caption (ATSC)
  • + DV: camera settings
  • + DV: Closed captions detection (raw DV, or in .mp4 and AVI container)
  • + JPEG 2000 support
  • + MPEG-4: support of JPEG 2000 embedded in a MPEG-4 container
  • + MPEG-4: support of ProRes 422 / ProRes 422 HQ codecs
  • + MPEG-4, AMR: Vendor and version
  • + Blu-ray: support of PCM (Frequency, resolution, bitrate)
  • + MPEG-TS: speed improvements
  • x #2803396, sometimes crash with tiny (40-79 bytes) files
  • x #2801211, MPEG-4/3GP: support of 3GP tags
  • x #2795345, MPEG-4 Visual: crash with some specific user_data
  • x #2793960, MKV: some MKV renamed as .ac3 were detected as AC-3
  • x #2796417, MPEG-4: Some files with Camera user data were not detected
  • x #2785604, Build fails on newer GCC versions (>=4.4)
  • x #2664106, prefs overwritten after installing update
  • x so interface was not working since some releases on Linux
  • x MPEG Video: better detection of 2:3 Pulldown
  • x MPEG-4: Forcing AMR to 8KHz/Mono whatever the container says
Version 0.7.16
  • Release Date: May 22, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Turkish, Belorussian translations updated
  • + MPEG-4: More information for Avid DV streams
  • + MPEG-4: more complete parsing (raw stream) of files with compressed headers
  • + VC-1 and MPEG-Video: displaying the original framerate for streams with 2:3 pulldown
  • + WMA: Handling of Mutual Excluded streams
  • x Some shortcuts were removed
  • x MPEG-4: some files with compressed headers were not parsed
  • x MPEG-4: Kodak files with EXIF data were not parsed
  • x MPEG-4 (Quicktime): some files with compressed header were not well parsed
  • x MPEG-4: Some files with a TimeCode track had wrong duration
  • x MPEG-PS: some files with wrong timestamp were not well parsed
  • x MPEG Audio with APE tags: crash with big tags
Version 0.7.15
  • Release Date: May 1, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + English, Chinese (Simplified), Albanian translations updated
  • + Wave64 (.w64) support
  • + MPEG-4: Better handling of 4GiB+ files
  • + MPEG-4: audio parts from a DV stream are displayed
  • + MPEG-4: better DV analyzing
  • + DV: parser improvement (speed, accuracy)
  • x DTS: 768/1536 Kbps streams are corrected to the real bitrate (755/1510 Kbps)
  • x MPEG-TS: some stream durations were not well computed (few seconds only)
  • x AVC: freeze with some malformed encoder settings
Version 0.7.14
  • Release Date: Apr 18, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Belarusian, Russian, Chinese (Traditional) translations updated
  • + 64-bits version of the installer (GUI is still 32-bit, but 64-bit DLL is included)
  • + DLL-only installers are available (both 32 and 64 bits)
  • + #2738780, local time display for modified/created date
  • + WAV: RF64 (Wav files >4 GiB) support
  • + AVI: Audio delay from the container
  • x #2734021, E-AC-3: some files were not detected
  • x FLAC: some files with big attachments were not well detected
  • x MKV: some huge video (3840*2160) were not well parsed (no encoding settings)
Version 0.7.13
  • Release Date: Apr 4, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Hungarian, Albanian translations updated
  • + #2635230, MPEG audio: Lame encoder settings
  • + #2706146, WMV: detection of container wanted aspect ratio
  • + #2611726, MKV: Audio delay detection
  • + #2721811, MKV: TrueHD detection
  • + Java: JNA (Java Native Access) binding
  • + Exported "stream" interface for analyzing streams in memory (beta)
  • + SHN (Shorten) detection
  • + TAK (Tom's lossless audio compressor) detection
  • + MPEG-TS parser optimizations
  • + SWF: better handling of videos
  • + WAV: better handling of 4GiB+ files
  • + WAV: Extensible Wave support
  • + MKV: Handling of chapters in multiple languages
  • + Stream size for all streams when 1 video and all audio streams are CBR
  • + Chapters are moved to menu part for better coherency with MPEG-TS, developers see Changes.txt for more info
  • x #2712761, AVI: unsupported SalmonSoft text codec makes MediaInfo silently fail
  • x #2719534, MKV: handling "modified" headers (zero padding)
  • x #2720822, MPEG Audio: was freezing with 1 malformed file
  • x #2721949, IFO: some stream IDs were false
  • x #2725808, MPEG-PS: some "OTA" files were detected with TrueHD instead of normal AC-3 audio
Version 0.7.12
  • Release Date: Mar 21, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Belarusian, Croatian translations added
  • + Polish, Traditional Chinese translations updated
  • + Complete refactoring of the code for speed improvements and future features
  • + #2686943, MPEG-4: ISMV (IIS Smooth Streaming Media Video) basic support
  • + MPEG-4 Visual: distinction between MPEG and H.263 default matrices
  • + MPEG-TS: ATSC and DVB EPG support
  • x MPEG-PS: duplicate stream infos with some AC-3 streams (with program map)
Version 0.7.11
  • Release Date: Feb 13, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Chinese (Simplified), German, Italian, Persian, Albanian, Dutch, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese translations updated
  • + OGG: Better Kate and CMML codecs support
  • + AVI: Detecting wrong aspect ratio from a broken AVI header
  • + DTS: Handling of Little Endian and 14-bit streams
  • + WAV: ID3v2 tags parsing
  • + MPEG Video: frame order even for progressive sequence
  • x #2559346, MKV: Detection of framerate in MKV without framerate header
  • x #2474280, OGG: some streams had bad stream size
  • x MPEG-TS: some buggy file may corrupt memory
  • x MP3/Id3v2: crash with one malformed file
Version 0.7.10
  • Release Date: Jan 31, 2009
  • Download(s):
  • + Spanish, Chinese (Traditional) translations updated
  • + Mono (C#/Linux) binding
  • + MPEG-4: Encoding library name
  • + #2474280, OGG: Old version of Dirac identifier support
  • + MPEG-TS: Encoded date for HDV
  • + DVR-MS: Delay between two tracks
  • + WAV: EBU Broadcast Wave format v1 support
  • + CMP4: Basic support
  • x #2529963: Infinite loop on one file
  • x #2473140, DTS: error preventing 96/24 DTS detection
  • x MPEG-4: Better support of Aspect ratio
  • x Output was unstranslated and weird when $LANG is not set
  • x C++ binding error in 0.7.9
  • x Python binding improved and corrected (no more crash with Linux)
Version 0.7.9
  • Release Date: Jan 24, 2009
  • + New icon design, thanks to T.J. Lentz
  • + Albanian language updated
  • + OGG: Dirac support
  • + OGG: Speex support
  • + OGG: other formats (JNG, Kate, MIDI, PCM...) detection
  • + SWF: detection of more audio streams
  • + MPEG-PS: Handling of PlayStation2 audio
  • + #2474119, Minimal MZ (PE) and ELF detection
  • + SMV (WAV/ADPCM+JPG files) file format support
  • + DPG (Nintendo DS) file format support
  • + QuickTime: TimeCode track analysis
  • + MPEG-4 subtitles: difference between 'text' and 'tx3g' codecIDs
  • x Python binding update for more compatibilty
  • x #2424809, Shell Extension problem with some specific OS configuration and non-latin based characters
  • x #2474280, OGG: handling of files with Skeleton Metadata
  • x #2445654, OGG: better false-positives detection
  • x #2493685, AVI: Wrong video duration for some malformed 4GB+ AVI/DV files
  • x #2516007, "Language" raw tag was sometimes 3 letter long instead of 2-letter long
  • x Floating point overflow correction
Version 0.7.7.9
  • Release Date: Dec 10, 2008
  • + Changing version schema, only 3 numbers (next versions will 0.7.9, 0.7.10...)
  • + Catalan, Russian, Korean, Galician languages updated
  • + Better Linux integration
  • + rpm stuff (thanks to oc2pus http://packman.links2linux.org)
  • + deb stuff
  • + #2259421, FLAC and OGG: Encoding library name and version
  • + FLV: version 10 support
  • + FLV: duration of files without metatags
  • + MPEG-4: Delay (useful when multiple videos are present)
  • + Dirac: profiles updated from the latest specification
  • + MPEG-4: more precise detection of OGG based codecs
  • + MKV: better newest codecs handling
  • + MKV: RealVideo/Audio support improvements
  • + mipsel CPU support
  • x #2406410: Removing the MediaInfo icon for uninstall
  • x MPEG-PS: Trying to have a better precision for duration
  • x WMV: crash with some malformed files
  • x MPEG-TS: some channel names where not shown
  • x MPEG Video (version 2): some streams were misdetected as CBR
Version 0.7.7.8
  • Release Date: Nov 11, 2008
  • + Albanian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese Traditional), Turkish, Italian, German, Polish languages updated
  • + #2216498, LPCM in VOB: more attributes (channels count, sampling rate, bitrate)
  • + #2182135, Wavpack: support of multichannel files
  • + AVC: detection of the newest profiles
  • + DTS: detection of DTS-HRA, DTS-MA, DTS-Express, thanks to http://madshi.net
  • + AES3 PCM in MPEG-TS detection
  • + Wavpack: Encoder settings
  • + WMV with "WVC1" codec identifier: video interlacement
  • + MPEG-4: E-AC-3 support
  • x #2186682, MPEG-2 Video: Wrong PAR and DAR for Panasonic MPEG2 Files
  • x MPEG-4: some AC-3 and AAC specific files reported wrong channels value
Version 0.7.7.7
  • Release Date: Oct 18, 2008
  • + Chinese Traditional, Albanian, Korean, German languages updated
  • + Support of VP5 file format
  • + MPEG-4 Visual and MPEG Video: can now display the custom matrices data
  • + WM: interlacement detection for VC-1 based codecs (WMV3...)
  • + #2148321, PNG: more info
  • + AVI: Better association of abcAVI tags to MediaInfo tags
  • + PureBasic binding
  • + Delphi binding: dynamic load (by default) of the library, thanks to Icebob
  • x #2142995, MPEG-4: handling the Display Aspect Ratio from the track Header (tkhd)
  • x #2141277, MPEG-PS/TS: Audio ID was hex for MPEG-PS but decimal for MPEG-TS streams
  • x #2109107, Tags in Flac or Ogg: modification of the tag types priorities
  • x #2120224, MPEG-4: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
  • x MPEG-TS with Dirac: some specific files were not parsed completely (missing info)
  • x MPEG-4: Crash on MPEG-4 Visual format without DecDecoder stuff
  • x Command line: was not reading custom template in UTF-8 codepage
  • x DV: some files were not well detected
  • x MPEG Video: some files were badly detected with 3:2 pulldown
  • x AVS (Chinese): some corrections, thanks to Tom's translation of documents
Version 0.7.7.6
  • Release Date: Sep 13, 2008
  • + 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
Version 0.7.7.5
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2008
  • + Chinese Simplified, Italian, Korean, Russian, Albanian languages updated
  • + #2044174, AVS (Chinese Audio Video Standard) support
  • + #2030684, AVI: Support of malformed chunks
  • + Matroska: delay between audio and video calculation (for AC-3, DTS, MPEG Audio)
  • + Full Replay gain support (gain/peak, track/album) for Flac/Ogg/MP3
  • + MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT (example: stream captured by some satellite TV receivers) support
  • + MPEG-TS: Service info (name, provider, channel number) for both DVB and ATSC tags
  • + Dot and thousand separator localized
  • + Matroska: Handling of audio Delay
  • x #2023872, DV: Crash with floating point exception on some files
  • x #2024706, BDAV: Some QuickTime files misidentified as BDAV
  • x #2033307, MPEG Video: Some raw files with high bitrate were not detected
  • x #2040411, Id3v2: Crash with some malformed Id3v2 fields
  • x #2036580, Id3v2: Problem when parsing big (>1M) Id3v2 tags, file was no more detected
  • x #1893830, WMA/WMV: there was textual info (Linux/Mac only)
  • x Video, Resolution/bits per pixel was sometimes per color entity, sometimes per pixel, now always per pixel
  • x MPEG Video, the "Component" video standard was not detected
  • x DLL only, the "by buffer" interface was broken
Version 0.7.7.4
  • Release Date: Jul 12, 2008
  • + Albanian translation added
  • + #1995653, AVI: Delay of interleaves (example: "64 ms (1.53 video frames)")
  • + #1995574, AVI: Report if the audio frames are split across or aligned on
  • + MPEG-Video (raw): handling of "not started at the beginning" time_code
  • + MPEG-PS: Trying to prevent errors with time code reset in the stream
  • + AVC: Trying to detect raw AVC streams without SPS/PPS
  • + [2013746] AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of ADTS stream for more info about AAC
  • + AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of IOD based stream for more info about AAC
  • + MPEG-TS: better detection of PCR time code
  • + AAC: specifying the muxing mode (ADIF, ADTS or LATM)
  • + MediaInfo DLL: NetBeans java binding example
Version 0.7.7.3
  • Release Date: Jun 28, 2008
  • + Turkish, Chinese (Traditional) languages updated
  • + MPEG-TS: Detection of scrambled streams
  • + #1995566: AVi, Identify ODML files
  • + AC-3/DTS/AAC: Added another Channel configuration string (example: "3/2.1") in advanced mode
  • + #1995569: Added proportion of each stream in the file (example: "500 MiB (90%)")
  • x MPEG-TS: Handling of multiple programs in one PMT PID
  • x MPEG-TS: Handling of streams in multiple programs
Version 0.7.7.2
  • Release Date: Jun 14, 2008
  • + Russian translation updated
  • + FLV: detection of AVC and AAC
  • x #1981032, Visual C++ 2008 binary is not compatible with Win9X, coming back to Visual C++ 2005
  • x #1964299, Never-ending 100% CPU if input file doesn't exist
Version 0.7.7.1
  • Release Date: May 31, 2008
  • + Persian (Farsi) Language (Software and website)
  • + Catalan, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified) translations updated
  • + The two Chinese (Simplified) language files are merged
  • + Bluray: detection of subtitles
  • + MPEG Video: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3
  • + VC-1: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3
  • + AVC: Detection of MBAFF
  • + Translations: more words can be translated
  • + MPEG-4 files: More info (profile, format settings, encoder name, x264 settings) for some well-known stream formats
  • + MPEG-4 files: Better handling of not common formats (ALS, PNG, AC-3, DTS... in .mp4)
  • + Bluray: detection of subtitles
  • + Additional formats detected: Module, Extended module, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
  • x #1967663, mp4: some specific iTunes atoms were not correctly parsed
Version 0.7.7.0
  • Release Date: May 17, 2008
  • + Third-party developpers: some MediaInfo fields have changed, please look at Changes.txt for more info
  • + Ukrainian language added
  • + Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Thai, Galician, Spanish, Korean translations updated
  • + Two versions of translation are available for Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified), make your choice
  • + Python (Windows) binding
  • + AC-3 TrueHD in bluray detection (even if the stream is splitted in 2 sub-streams)
  • + Original framerate is shown if the framerate from the video stream and the one in the container are different
  • + #1955061, Bluray: Duration
  • + #1953908, FLV with audio delay detection
  • x Linux with UTF-8 locale was not accepting non-English characters in filenames
  • x #1954663, Some mono HE-AAC audio track detected as 2 channels with PS
  • x VC-1 in TS detection even if the stream_type is not declared
  • x xxxBSD compatibility
Version 0.7.6.4
  • Release Date: Apr 28, 2008
  • + About the library : Java/Linux binding is available
  • + DV (raw) files support
  • + Better support of DV in AVI container (type 1 and 2)
  • + AVC: Handling of SEI which is before a SPS
  • + AVC in AVI: reading more info (Profile, Cabac...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • + Vorbis in AVI: reading more info (Max bitrate, tags...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • + Detection of VC-1 in MPEG-TS from MainConcept encoder
  • + MediaInfoLib is now thread-safe
  • x #1943743, AVI with MPEG-Audio VBR and delay: delay was incorrect
  • x Pixel Aspect Ratio was sometimes inverted (1/x)
  • x XviD CodecID was redirected on Koepi website, no more available, changed to official XviD webpage
  • x #1946098, DV in AVI: DV aspect ratio errors
Version 0.7.6.3
  • Release Date: Apr 13, 2008
  • + Portuguese (Brazil) translation added (Software and website)
  • + Thai translation added (Software and website)
  • + AVC: Count of reference frames
  • + AU: Comments
  • + Some global speed improvement
  • x #1931844, Id3v2: Unsynchronized frames support (v2.3 & v2.4)
Version 0.7.6.2
  • Release Date: Mar 29, 2008
  • + Spanish translation updated
  • + The ToolTip text is now a summary (instead of a complete list)
  • + MKV: handling of files created for streaming
  • + MPEG-4: Handling of corrupted stream size info with some PCM streams
  • + DVD video: Hebrew patch ("iw" code is mapped to Hebrew)
  • x MPEG-4: better handling of bitrate mode (VBR or CBR)
  • x AVI: MediaInfo reads now the framerate value from the container rather than the stream value
Version 0.7.6.1
  • Release Date: Mar 15, 2008
  • + Lithuanian translation updated
  • + AC3: TrueHD detection
  • + MPEG-TS (or Bluray): VC-1, AC3+ and AC3 TrueHD detection
  • + AVC in MKV: all SEI userdata infos from x264/eavc in Writing library settings
  • + EVO: Better detection of duration
  • + Dirac: raw files parsing
  • + MPEG-TS: Dirac management
  • + MPEG-TS: DVB subtitles/Teletext management
  • x MPEG-4 Visual (DivX/XviD): writing library name was missing
  • x MPEG-Video: some DTS files with wrong extension were detected as MPEG-Video
  • x SWF: Compressed SWF files support is back
Version 0.7.6.0
  • Release Date: Mar 1, 2008
  • + Id3v2.2 (yes, it is old...) support
  • + Id3v2: TXXX tags support
  • + RMP3 (japanese MP3 based format?) support
  • + SAMR in .mp4: some files have wrong sampling rate, forcing it to 8000 Hz
  • + File_Created_Date and File_Modified_Date tags added (in advanced mode only)
  • + MP3 encoded by Lame: Minimal (VBR) or Nominal (ABR) bitrate
  • x Better detection of Lame encoder
  • x AVC Display Aspect Ratio was not well detected if AVC is in a .mp4 container
  • x Matroska Display Aspect Ratio was deleted if AVC aspect ratio was set, now Matroska has priority
  • x "Subwoofer" term has been replaced by "LFE", more relevant
Version 0.7.5.9
  • Release Date: Feb 8, 2008
  • + Lithuanian translation
  • + AVC: CABAC detection
  • + #1886241: AVC: all SEI userdata infos from x264/eavc in Writing library settings
  • + ADPCM: compagny which created the stream is now shown in the codec section
  • + PCM: precision about Little/Big endianess, Integer/Floating point method
  • + #1882691: AC3+: raw files are now detected
  • x AVC: FPS were sometimes 2x the reality
  • x RealMedia parser was brocken
  • x FLV parser was crashing
  • x FLV: Better detection of Nellymoser audio
  • x FLV: Disabling Framerate estimation if a VFR file is detected (estimation was false in this case)
  • x Better false-positive MP3 detection (NSV files are no more detected as MP3)
  • x IFO: there was a mistake betwwen NTSC and PAL framerates
  • x Win9X support was (again) brocken in 0.7.5.8
Version 0.7.5.8
  • Release Date: Feb 2, 2008
  • + Matroska: Full parsing of DivX/XviD/H264/AVC settings (profile...)
  • + AVI: Full parsing of AVC settings (profile...)
  • + AVI: Added a tag "OpenDML" (for example, the PlayStation 3 doesn't support OpenDML files)
  • + AVC: Framerate, Interlacement, writing library (only for eavc, x264 and MainConcept encoders)
  • + TwinVQ : channels, bitrate and sampling rate
  • + Musepack SV8 support
  • + Musepack and Musepack SV8: tags support
  • + AIFF and AIFC format support
  • + MIDI format detection
  • + FLV: FrameRate even if the tag is not in the header
  • + AU/SND audio formats support
  • + Vodei encrypted AVI files detection
  • + Linux/MacOS: support of 2GiB+ files
  • + FLV: Video parsing even if the container says there is no video
  • x APE Tags v1 are detected again
  • x MPEG-PS: some malformed files were not well parsed, fixed
  • x AVC: Cropping was not well handled (example: height was 1088 instead of 1080)
Version 0.7.5.7
  • Release Date: Jan 10, 2008
  • + SWF: Tags version 9 support
  • + MPEG-TS: DegiCipher 2 (DCII) support
  • + DVR-MS format support (with MPEG Audio or AC3)
  • + WMV: language tag
  • + MPEG-2 Video: Nominal bitrate
  • x AVI: some speed improvments
Version 0.7.5.6
  • Release Date: Dec 11, 2007
  • + Korean transaltion updated
  • + AVI, Interlacement for M-JPEG codec
  • + AVI, Interleaved tag
  • + Better showing of well know values ("44.1 KHz", "22.05 KHz"...)
  • x AVI, was parsing the whole file in case of non-interleaved files
  • x MP3, was freezing on specific files
  • x #1838202: Flac, Resolution was 1 less the the real value (15 bits instead of 16...)
Version 0.7.5.5
  • Release Date: Nov 10, 2007
  • + #1799859: Flac, tags are case insensitive
  • + Matroska format parsing improvements
  • + .mp4 speed improvement
  • x BDAV (Bluray) parser compilation was forgotten in the previous version
  • x AVI, Bitrate and stream size were false
  • x #1825218: IFO parser was brocken
  • x #1825521: .mp4 chapters times were wrong
  • x #1801549: DLL was crashing during Delphi/C# debugging sessions
Version 0.7.5.4
  • Release Date: Nov 3, 2007
  • + Aspect Ratio is renamed Display Aspect Ratio
  • + Pixel Aspect Ratio added (in advanced mode)
  • + More attributes for AC3+
  • + More attributes for VC-1
  • + Profile and level for MPEG-4 Visual based formats (DivX...), AVC and VC1
  • + Speed improvement for MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, DVD-Video (.vob), HD-DVD, BluRay
  • + MPEG-4 AAC, Channels position
  • + AAC (ADIF), More info
  • + AAC (ADTS), More info
  • x FLV, there was bad dates on some specific metatags.
  • x #1818404: WAV with "float" PCM, bad detection
  • x CDXA (.dat) files parsing is back
Version 0.7.5.3
  • Release Date: Oct 8, 2007
  • + Portuguese (Brazil) translation
  • + Better OGG/OGM parsing
  • + Better .ifo (DVD-Video) parsing
  • + .rmvb files are now detected in Windows Explorer
  • + Win9X/98/Me support does not request Microsoft unicows.lib anymore
  • x Win95/98/Me support was brocken since 0.7.4.6. It works again.
  • x #1798997: MPEG-4, some Apple codecs were wrongly reported
  • x Lot of memory leak correction, you can now parse 1000+ files without problems
Version 0.7.5.2
  • Release Date: Aug 17, 2007
  • #1770477: Video info for some low-bitrate MPEG files were not shown
  • #1770509: MPEG 2 Audio Layer 2 was not well detected
  • #1763282: FLV, wrong playtime on PPC based machine
  • #1734113: IFO, crash with some specific files
  • Tooltip extension was requesting development tools since 0.7.4.6. No more requested.
  • Stability improvement
Version 0.7.5.1
  • Release Date: Jul 23, 2007
  • + AVI: 24/30 fps (aka 120 fps hack or dual frame rate video) detection
  • + TruAudio (.tta) support
  • + Wavpack (.wv) support
  • + MPEG-4 based containers: Codec/CC tag support
  • + #1754521: .tta, .wv, .wvc, .trp, .m2ts extensions handling in the infotip
  • + #1754143: AC3 & DTS detection in a .mp4 container made with the Haali's gdsmux tool
  • + #1754140: AC3 detection in a .mp4 container from Nero Digital
  • + #1754905: iPhone files support
  • x #1750275: HD-DTS was no more detected in a .m2ts (bluray) file
  • x AVI: AAC profile name was no more detected
Version 0.7.5.0
  • Release Date: Jul 10, 2007
  • + Licence changed from GPLv2 to GPLv3
  • + Korean language, thanks to http://www.starcodec.com
  • + More information about mpeg-4 based (Nero...) files
  • + MediaInfo analyses longer a .vob file to be able to find hidden tracks (subtitles...)
  • + #1747633: Encrypted WMV detection
  • + FLV: more attributes
  • x Memory leaks correction
  • x #1720404: MPEG, rare crashes with some files
  • x #1721846: AAC ADTS were no more detected
  • x MPEG Audio: No detection if there is some specific junk before the real audio data
  • x #1728059: Delphi DLL overflow with big files
  • x Crash with Youtube FLV files
  • x AVI: Delay for AC3, DTS and MP3 is back
Version 0.7.4.7
  • Release Date: May 15, 2007
  • OGG Vorbis, "Floor" value (useful for some players which don't support Floor 0)
  • MPEG-Audio, Lyrics3v1/v2, ApeTagv1/v2 parsing
  • MPEG-TS, handling of complex files (multiple programs, 8+ channels...)
  • #1704008: handling of AVC or MPEG-4 Video in a MPEG-TS file without program map
  • VC-1 basic parsing
  • DTS True HD detection
  • AC3+ detection
  • HD-DVD (decyphered) support
  • BluRay (decyphered) support
  • MPEG-TS, Duration calculation problem on very rare files
  • MPEG-4/iTunes, Tags where not well parsed in 0.7.4.6
  • FLV, freezes or crashes with some files
  • #1718269: MPEG-4 Video, Framerate of 65535/2733 is transformed to 23.976
  • Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) with file size more than 4GB were not well handled
  • MP4 with file size more than 4GB were not well handled
Version 0.7.4.6
  • Release Date: Apr 27, 2007
  • Windows 64-bit version of the command line tool and DLL (separately)
  • Linux 64-bit version of the command line tool (separately)
  • More Musepack properties
  • Detection of Musepack v8 files
  • Complete parsing of Real Media files (all tags)
  • Improved Windows Media (ASF/WMA/WMV) parsing
  • MonkeyAudio tags (APETagv1/v2, Id3v1) parsing
  • Ogg/Theora : Video bitrate + MPEG audio : More encoder detection (bitstream parsing)
  • SWF (Flash) parsing
  • #1665981: Mov - PCM audio (digital camera) was detected as RGB
  • #1672896: Wave file with .mp3 extension was detected as MP3
  • #1689570 and #1633237: Better JPEG parsing x Some other minor bugs
Version 0.7.4.5
  • Release Date: Feb 23, 2007
  • Greek translation (thanks to Alexander)
  • Program file size reduction
  • WAV : Support of some special tags at the end of the file
  • AVC : Display Aspect Ratio
  • 1653325: Wrong Resolution with AVC High Profile
  • 1662890: Problem with tag adaptation parser (mainly for ID3v1 genre)
  • Better support of corrupted MOV files
Version 0.7.4.4
  • Release Date: Feb 6, 2007
  • HTML Demonstration of how to use "custom view" feature (thanks to Musaran)
  • FLV format support
  • Basic support of multiple programs in a MPEG Transport Stream (Satellite broadcast)
  • Basic detection of TwinVQ (.vqf) files (+tag parsing)
  • Better handling of corrupted .mp4 files
  • Better handling of corrupted .avi files
  • Crash with corrupted "COMM" Id3v2 tags
  • Crash with some audio files
  • 1633524: MOV, Crash on files with corrupted Descriptors
  • 1630907: MP3, Crash on files with corrupted (empty) Id3v2 tag
  • 1637838, 1634549, 1635131: Crash with some audio-only files
  • AVI, Better detection of writing application found in a "JUNK" chunk
  • AVI, sometimes wrong playtime
  • 1637191: AC3 delay in AVIs is back
  • 1635134: some freezes with MPEG-7 files (but this format is not yet supported)
  • 1635087: some files were wrongly detected as AC3
  • Russian (or other non-latin language) AVI tag parsing is back.
Version 0.7.4.3
  • Release Date: Dec 23, 2006
  • MPEG-TS : Detect encrypted stream, and show the codec
  • id3v2 with UTF-16 frames
  • AVC in MPEG-TS AVC parsing
  • AVC : Width and Height
  • Matroska, some crashing files (with chapters)
Version 0.7.4.2
  • Release Date: Dec 10, 2006
  • Czech language
  • Encoders database updated with 20 new encoder versions
  • Codecs database updated with 100 new codecs (video or audio) x Matroska, sometimes wrong Playtime x MPEG-4 : some Titles were not well parsed x MPEG PS : some video stream were missing x Crash with some malformed files x Some debug files were create
Version 0.7.4.1
  • Release Date: Dec 9, 2006
  • + Japanese language
  • + MPEG Transport Stream : Video info (Standard, Chroma, Interlacement...) and PlayTime
  • + CDXA : PlayTime
  • + MPEG-4 Video embedded in MPEG Program Stream support
  • + MPEG-1 stream embedded in a Quictime file
  • + MPEG-4 AAC Parametric Stereo (SBR-PS) detection
  • + Detection of encrypted MPEG-4 (like iTunes)
  • + Support of MPEG TS with lot of synchro errors
  • + AVI : Exact Stream size calculation (but currently OpenDML files are not supported)
  • + MPEG-4 : Exact Stream size calculation
  • + Basic support of Korean mobilephone provider Sky (.skm)
  • x MPEG Program Stream : PlayTime, Delay are corrected
  • x #1601787 : MOV tracks issues (and crash)
  • x MOV : was stopping on too big "free" atoms
  • x MOV : Aspect Ration of DV is corrected
  • x MPEG : Handling of negative Delays between Audio and Video
  • x Musepack parser was doing too much "false positives" with some MPEG files
Version 0.7.4.0
  • Release Date: Nov 25, 2006
  • Chinese (simplified) language
  • AVI with AAC-SBR : detection of real SamplingRate (not the sampling rate in header)
  • AVI with DV : basic information about audio
  • AVI with DV : detection of duplicated audio stream
  • Google Video : metadatas
  • AVI : now able to read metadatas at the end of the file
  • AVI : Bitrate computed is based on filesize in header instead of real filesize (for broked files)
  • AVI (DivX) : Menu detection (yes or no)
  • AVI : detection of VBR MP3 (useful for DVD players, sometimes they don't accept it)
  • AVI : detection of Delay between Audio and Video (for MPEG Audio, AC3 and DTS)
  • PlayStationPortable MPEG-4 files support
  • 3GPP5 files support
  • MPEG-4 : Detection of MP3, Vorbis streams embeded in a 'mp4a' atom
  • MPEG-4 : Detection of AVC streams embeded in a 'mp4v' atom
  • MPEG-2TS with MPEG-4 and AC3 detection
  • Speed improvements
  • AVI : infinite loop on one example file
  • AVI : some bad detections corrected
  • MPEG-PS : infinite loop in intra Matrix on one example file
  • MPEG TS : better detection of streams
Version 0.7.3.1
  • Release Date: Jul 31, 2006
  • Galician language
  • Swedish language
  • Chinese (traditional) language
  • MPEG-1/2 PS : more files have a duration
  • AVI with MPEG-4 Video based codecs (DivX, XviD...), more encoder string detections
  • Matroska, crash with big (>4GB) files
Version 0.7.3.0
  • Release Date: Jul 22, 2006
  • + "ToolTip", move your mouse on a file in Windows explorer, info will be shown (Beta)
  • + MPEG-1 and 2 Transport Stream support
  • + MPEG-1 and 2 Video : Custom Matrix detection
  • + MPEG-4 Video : Custom Matrix detection
  • + Google Video (GVI) support
  • + AMV/MTV (Chinese) detection (if you have specifications of theses formats, email me)
  • + AVI/DivX/GoogleVideo and MPEG-4 Video : packed bistream detection. Now you can know if your DVD player can read the file before burning. Next step: a database of DVD player capacities ;-)
  • + MPEG-4 : Language
  • + MPEG-4 : Text streams (subtitles)
  • x #1485003 : MP3, "Title" tag was sometimes forgotten
  • x #1485804 : Wrong bitrate and time in PCM files
  • x #1485810 : wrong playtime on CBR MP3 files with big id3v2 tags
  • x #1485803 : some WMA tags were forgotten
  • x #1488449 : crash on very rare buggy MP3 files
  • x #1482686 : ShellExtension, crash when moving a directory
  • x #1488770 : PlayTime, some "minutes" formating were forgotten
  • x #1485044 : some .ico files were detected as MPEG Audio
  • x AVI, handle some malformed timestamps in tags (carriage return at the end...)
  • x MPEG-1 and 2 : incoherancy of PlayTime
Version 0.7.2.1
  • Release Date: May 9, 2006
  • + Dutch language
  • + Romanian language
  • + MPEG-4 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
  • + MPEG-4 : Interlacement mode ("Top field
  • first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
  • + MPEG-2 : Chroma ("4:2:0"...)
  • + MPEG-2 : Interlacement mode ("Top field first", "bottom field first", or "Progressive")
  • + MPEG-2 : Profile and Level ("Main@Main"...)
  • + MPEG-2 : Standard (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, or MAC)
  • x #1482346 : Incorrect playback time in OGG files (was not enough precise).
  • x #1482602 : MPEG-4 video false positive files
Version 0.7.2.0
  • Release Date: May 1, 2006
  • + Polish language
  • + Turkish language
  • + Multi-plural languages support, example in Polish : 1 kanal, 2 kanaly, 6 kanalow
  • + Genres can be translated by translators
  • + AVI with DivX or XviD : encoder name, GMC/QPel/B-frames indicator if present (beta)
  • + AVI and WAV with MP3 : encoder name, precise version and layer number, VBR indication
  • + Matroska: support of anamorphic videos (right Aspect Ration even if pixel aspect ratio is not 1:1)
  • + AVI/WAV : support of extended wave files (20 bit per sample and more than 2 channels) and channel position
  • + AVI : support of Exif tag format
  • + AVI : more tags are supported
  • + Real : detect RealAudio Lossless Format
  • x #1454010 : v0.7.1.2 was checking updates even if the user did not want
  • x #1454009 : AC3, sometimes wrong AC3 playtime
  • x #1469423 : MP3 with cyrilic filenames, Id3 tags can be read
  • x #1464066 : Hang ups with raw h264 streams
  • x x1462647 : Quicktime files with preview image, crash
  • x x1445150 : crash with some malformed MusePack files (workaround, this is a the Musepack bug, not yet corrected
Version 0.7.1.2
  • Release Date: Mar 10, 2006
  • + #1438441: show TV format (PAL/NTSC) for DVD and DV
  • + #1343147: Matroska, Show Chapter names
  • + MPEG-1 and 2, more precise playtime
  • + MPEG-1 and 2, Added Encoded_Application if it is in video user data
  • + Quicktime: Support of Quicktime "wide" (header at the end of the file)
  • + MPEG Audio: Detect small (examples, less than 200K) MPEG Audio files with Id3v1 tag
  • + #1441661: AVI, Handling of DV Type 1
  • x #1440480: No Audio Found in MPEG-2 after 0.7.0.4
  • x #1438987: Infinite loop with some Matroska files
  • x Matroska, Recorded date is now in UTC format, rather than the number of seconds since 1970
  • x AC3 noted 5 channels (because of 5.1) are now noted 6 channels (more realistic)
  • x Quicktime: "ima4" or "twos" codecs were detected as Video stream instead of Audio stream
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