MEDIAINFO-GUI(1)

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version 26.05 · 11 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 MEDIAINFO-GUI(1) 💖

okay so bestie, you opened the manual page for MediaInfo, section 1 (User Commands), and honestly? you're about to have a great time. it's the whole thing about poking at audio and video files and finding out everything about them. let's go 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

  • MediaInfo — command line utility to display information about audio/video files
  • MediaInfo-Gui — graphical utility to display information about audio/video files

like, same energy, two flavors: one lives in your terminal, one has a window and buttons. both just tell you what's inside your media 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. that's the whole vibe. you point it at a file, it spills the tea ☕

✨ 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 options, and listen — they're case-insensitive, so type them however your heart desires, no cap.

  • --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.

real talk: that GPL text is not a suggestion, it's the actual license. respect it 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie! this was MediaInfo 26.05, dated 2026-05-18. go read some metadata, you absolute icon 👑💖

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