Mediainfo application on Linux

[Rog131]

MediaInfo

What is MediaInfo?
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
This is free software (free of charge and free to access source code: GPL or LGPL licence)

Links:
- Sourceforge Projects MediaInfo
- HOWTO: Gspot Equivalent on Linux


Installing (one way to do it )

There are (for Linux):

MediaInfo_0.7.6.2_CLI_GNU_FromSource.tar.bz2
MediaInfo_0.7.6.2_CLI_Linux_i386.tar.bz2
MediaInfo_0.7.6.2_CLI_Linux_x64.tar.bz2
mediainfo.cli_0.7.6.2-1_i386.deb

Downloading MediaInfo_0.7.6.2_CLI_Linux_i386.tar.bz2, right clicking it, Actions > Extract to subdirectory.

MediaInfo_CLI_Linux_i386 contains:

• History.txt
• Licence.html
• mediainfo
• ReadMe.txt

Dropping mediainfo to the /usr/bin/.

Konsole:

mediainfo --help

MediaInfo Command line,
MediaInfoLib - v0.7.6.2
Usage: "MediaInfo [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]"

Options:
--Full, -f Display full information (all internal tags)
--Info-Parameters Display available parameters
--Inform=... Specify a template
(--Help-Inform for more info)
--Help, -h Display this help and exit
--Language=raw Display Non-translated words (internal text)
--Output=HTML Display with HTML tags for parsing by a browser
--Version Display version information and exit

--Help-AnOption Display more details about "AnOption"

Adding MediaInfo Service/context menu to the Konqueror/Dolphin: MediaInfo


Mediainfo and the mediainfo servicemenu can be found from the PPA repositories > Show PPAs matching:mediainfo or/and (?) > Show PPAs matching: servicemenu


=> From my PPA repository =>
Package name contains: mediainfo

[Linuxgirl]

Re: Mediainfo application on Linux

Thank you so much-I've been looking for something like that!

[OneLine]

Re: Mediainfo application on Linux

Debian Bug report logs - #653894: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653894
--> Ubuntu [needs-packaging] Mediainfo : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/135343
----> [ubuntu/precise] mediainfo 0.7.52-1 (Accepted): https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/pr...ry/007427.html

mediainfo (0.7.52-1) unstable; urgency=low

* Initial release (Closes: #653894)
- Packaging based on initial upstream debian/ directory

• mediainfo-gui
• mediainfo (commandline)

:~$ mediainfo --Help
MediaInfo Command line, 
MediaInfoLib - v0.7.52
Usage: "MediaInfo [-Options...] FileName1 [Filename2...]"

Options:
--Help, -h     Display this 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 
--Inform=...    Template defined information Display
--Info-Parameters Display list of Inform= parameters

--Language=raw   Display non-translated unique identifiers (internal text)
--LogFile=...   Save the output in the specified file
--BOM       Byte order mark for UTF-8 output

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=141946

Description:
Simple service menu that show the mediainfo about the selected media.
It uses mediainfo tool (http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/), usually shipped with the maior distros.

Two menus:
-full mediainfo with all the information provided by mediainfo
-short mediainfo with the main information