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Title: MediaInfo
Author/Publisher: Official Website
Ease of use: Not Rated
Latest Version: 0.7.1.2 (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: Mar 10, 2006
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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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