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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

MediaInfo in linux - The simple way to get detail media info instead of ffmpeg

Normally, it’s a pain finding stream, codec or bitrate information for media files.

Some information can be discovered using
1    file [some_file].avi
2    ffmpeg -i [some_file].avi

However, there is a better way of doing it using mediainfo[-gui] package available from this site.
01    mkdir -p ~/software/mediainfo
02    cd ~/software/mediainfo
03    echo "http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Fedora#11.x86_64" > links.txt
04    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/mediainfo-gui-0.7.19-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
05    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/mediainfo-0.7.19-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
06    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-0.7.19-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
07    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mediainfo/libmediainfo0-devel-0.7.19-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
08    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
09    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
10    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
11    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
12    wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenlib/libzen0-devel-0.4.3-1.x86_64.Fedora_11.rpm
13    sudo yum localinstall --nogpgcheck *.rpm

Now, you are able to see all information in the command line mode with:
1    mediainfo [some_file].avi

Or launching
1    mediainfo-gui

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