Get all the info of a video or audio file using MediaInfo

Ever wanted to know what was the codec and bitrate and Screen resolution for your video or audio?

MediaInfo , an open source software is the answer.

The project is hosted on SourceForge.net and you can go check there and read more about it.

What is really cool about it is it's shell extension, you can simply right click a file and click MediaInfo for a detailed report.

Check out it's report on a media file.

General
Complete name                    : E:\Half Blood Prince.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 901 MiB
Duration                         : 2h 27mn
Overall bit rate                 : 856 Kbps
Writing application              : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release)
Writing library                  : VirtualDubMod build 2542/release

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP            : Yes
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                      : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 2h 27mn
Bit rate                         : 718 Kbps
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 272 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.165
Stream size                      : 756 MiB (84%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Mode                             : Joint stereo
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 2h 27mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Stream size                      : 135 MiB (15%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 40 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 504 ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings                : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 -b 128

It is currently bundled with K-Lite-Codec pack.

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