* Update LICENSE to 2-clause-bsd.
CHangelog:
Version 21.09, 2021-09-17
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+ Graph view for 3D audio streams (thanks to graphviz)
+ ADM: full featured support (programmes, content, objects, pack formats...)
+ ADM: in WAV (axml, bxml), MXF
+ S-ADM in AES3: support of Levels A1 and AX1
+ MOV/MP4: support of Dolby Vision Metadata XML
+ MXF: detection of IAB
+ SMPTE ST 337 (AES3): support of subframe mode
+ HEVC: CEA-608/708 caption support
+ MP4/QuickTime: Android slow motion real frame rate
+ JSON output: add creatingLibrary field
x MPEG-4: read too much data with some predecessor definitions
x EBUCore: fix of fields order and types
Version 21.03, 2021-03-26
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+ WAV: ADM profile detection of Dolby Atmos Master or MPEG-H
+ SMPTE ST 337: support of AC-4
+ AC-3/AC-4: show top layer channels after Lw/Rw, as it becomes the defacto standard layout
+ Dolby Surround EX and Pro Logic IIz detection
+ Matroska: add DV support
+ JavaScript module: reduce binary size
+ JavaScript module: reserve less memory at startup
+ CLI: read from stdin
+ DV: remove check of zeroed bytes in timecode, considered again as valid timecode
+ TIFF; add support of compression codes 7 and 8
+ WAV: show bext (BWF) version in verbose mode / XML / JSON
+ MXF: detection fo DCI P3 mastering display color primaries
+ Options: add software version to text output (CLI or Windows GUI)
+ Options: add report creation timestamp to text output (CLI or Windows GUI)
+ macOS: native build for Apple Silicon (arm64)
x HDR: mastering max. luminance precision was wrong
x WM: fix EncodingTime parsing
x MOV/MP4: skip XMP huge atoms, fix
x MPEG-TS: fix inverted supplementary_audio_descriptor mix_type values
x AAC: fix File_Aac::is_intensity according to ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009
x I1353, MP4: Skip user data Xtra and free atoms
x FFV1: fix crash with some bitstreams parsing
x TIFF: fix division by 0
x RF64: fix the WAV malformed chunk size test
x macOS 10.9/10.10: fix crash at startup
x Supported platforms: this is the last version compatible with Windows XP, macOS 10.5-10.9, RHEL/CentOS 6
Version 20.09, 2020-10-09
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+ Dolby ED2: full featured support (presentations, presentation targets, beds, objects)
+ MKV: support of Dolby Vision metadata
+ MXF: detection of Dolby E hidden in PCM tracks having more than 2 channels
+ WAV: detection of Dolby E hidden in PCM tracks having more than 2 channels
+ CineForm: display of color space (including Bayer), bit depth
x WAV: more precise sample count
x SMPTE ST 337: catch of streams starting later than usual (probing increased from 4 to 16 PCM "frames")
x PNG: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x MXF: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x AVI: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
x MPEG Audio: was wrongly flagging Xing info tag as CBR
x VorbisTag: does not skip DISCID
x Miscellaneous bug/crash fixes
Version 20.08, 2020-08-11
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+ MPEG-H 3D Audio full featured support (group presets, switch groups, groups, signal groups)
+ MP4/MOV: support of more metadata locations
+ JSON and XML outputs: authorize "complete" output
+ MPEG-4: support of TrueHD
+ WM: show legacy value of performer if not same as modern one
+ WAV: trace of adtl (Associated Data List) chunk
x URL encoding detection fix for URL having a query part (issue with e.g. pre-signed AWS S3 URLs)
x Don't try to seek to the end (false positive range related error with HTTP)
x DPX: don't load the whole file in RAM
x Opus: fix wrong channel mapping
x Miscellaneous other bug fixes
All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
The following distfiles could not be fetched (for legal reasons?):
./multimedia/adobe-flash-player/distinfo adobe-flash-player-32.0.0.465/flash_player_npapi_linux.i386.tar.gz
./multimedia/adobe-flash-player/distinfo adobe-flash-player-32.0.0.465/flash_player_npapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
./multimedia/libdvdcss/distinfo libdvdcss-1.4.3.tar.bz2
Version 20.03, 2020-04-03
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+ AC-4 full featured support (presentations, groups, substreams)
+ MPEG-H 3D Audio basic support
+ MPEG-TS: audio preselection descriptor support
+ Dolby Vision v2 detection
+ MPEG-4: support of colr/nclx (color information) box
x URL encoding option fixes, permitting to use URL encoded or non URL encoded links
x AAC: fix SBR frequency when in ADIF
x DPX: ColorimetricSpecification and TransferCharacteristic were inverted
x Several crash and memory leaks fixes
pkglint -r --network --only "migrate"
As a side-effect of migrating the homepages, pkglint also fixed a few
indentations in unrelated lines. These and the new homepages have been
checked manually.
Version 0.7.90, 2016-10-31
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+ #M94, WAV: support of file with a buggy RIFF header
+ Matroska: detection of segment size of zero (compatibility risks e.g. Windows 10 Media Player does not play such file)
+ MXF: detection of some incoherences between header and footer
+ MXF: display of Locked information
+ N19/STL: support of 48/50/60 fps content
+ N19/STL: display of time code of first frame
+ AC-3: bit depth
+ MPEG Video: CBR bitrate mode information based on vbv_delay
+ DXW: support of fake time code attribute
x Teletext in MPEG-TS: CodecID, format (classic teletext or subtitle), video delay were sometimes not displayed
x PDF: fixed crash with some files with full analysis set
x #B485, BMP height is negative
x Several minor fixes
Version 0.7.89, 2016-09-30
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+ QuickTime: support of Panasonic AVC-Intra 50/100/200 without SPS/PPS ("aixx" and "AVin" CodecID)
+ More QuickTime/MP4/AVC/HEVC color descriptions based on future ISO 23001-8:201x/PDAM1
+ FFV1: handling 16+ bitdepth (YUV and RGB) while handling buggy version <= 3 YUV 16-bit streams
+ Improved growing file detection, option for forcing the growing file test
+ Matroska: support of video FieldOrder, MatrixCoefficients, BitsPerChannel, Range, TransferCharacteristics, Primaries
+ Acquisition Metadata: support of more elements (IrisTNumber, IrisRingPosition, FocusRingPosition, ZoomRingPosition, ColorMatrix)
+ Add stream counts to MIXML output
+ I242, AVI/Matroska: mapping of mjp2 to JPEG 2000 format name
+ MPEG-4 Visual: parsing of Studio profiles, providing width/height/frame rate...
+ MXF: reading MPEG-4 Visual profile from MXF sub-descriptor and/or EssenceCompression
+ MXF: reading Intra GOP info from descriptors
+ Sequence of images: detection of sequence even if the provided path separator is the Unix one (Windows only)
x Acquisition Metadata: IrisFNumber, FocusPosition, LensZoom were not correctly reported
x LXF: fixed crash in case of some malformed files
x LXF: reject bad frames instead of displaying wrong duration and bit rate
Version 0.7.88, 2016-08-31
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+ MediaInfo distributed with HTTP/HTTPS support: support of Amazon S3 with Signature Version 4
+ FFV1: parsing speed slight improvement
x Duration: fixed regression in last release, sometimes duration was displayed with only count of minutes
Version 0.7.87, 2016-06-30
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+ Refactoring of the trace feature, for better performance and some bug fixes
- Visual C++ 2012 project files removed
x Review of symbols display, now using standard display (e.g. "k" instead of "K", " min" instead of "mn"...)
x XML output: revert to old versioning method (version is MediaInfo software version)
x I63, EBUCore/FIMS outputs: typo correction about WritingLibrary and WritingApplication
x Matroska: files with CodecPrivate element before CodecID element where not always correctly parsed
x OGG: crash/incoherent behavior with some buggy OGG streams having invalid chunk sizes
Version 0.7.86, 2016-05-31
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+ FFV1 parsing optimization, avoiding by default a too verbose trace
+ Matroska: more elements support and typo fixes in the trace
+ #I172, Trace feature: provide the name of the main parser in the media element
+ Matroska: consider all values below 0x10 EBML names as 1-byte junk
x Matroska: better support (including speed improvement) of huge lossless frames (e.g. 20 MB FFV1 4K)
x #I144, Python binding: Python 2 on Linux does not automatically provide the locale to the shared object
x HTML output: don't escape carriage returns from the input file
x FFV1: some streams were rejected despite the fact they are valid
x Python binding: some errors during call of Get() API with Python3 on Linux/Mac
Version 0.7.85, 2016-04-29
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+ FFV1: ScanType and ScanOrder
+ Detection of Omneon VBI and move of the VBI track from Video part to Others part
+ N19/STL: Support of etection of less standard frame rates (23.976 and 29.970)
+ Teletext in MPEG-TS: Teletext not subtitle moved to "Other" part
+ Teletext in MPEG-TS: display of CodecID and timestamp of first frame
x Teletext in MXF: some IDs were wrong (when there are more than one Teletext service)
x MPEG-4/MOV: default of raw audio to Signed in case of stsd atom version <2
x MPEG Video: some CEA-608/708 captions were not correctly detected due to some packets discarded by the parser with interlaced content
x MPEG-4/MOV: Dolby E with 2 or more audio services were not correctly reported
Version 0.7.84, 2016-03-31
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x #I122, MPEG-4/MOV: Crash if mdhd timescale is 0
x MPEG-4/MOV: Infinite loop if malformed stsc / stsz (detected by fuzzing)
x MPEG-TS: some DVB Subtitles were not detected
x HLS: better handling of media playlists having EXT-X-BYTERANGE
Version 0.7.83, 2016-02-29
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+ HEVC: Maximum Content Light Level (MaxCLL) and Maximum Frame-Average Light Level (MaxFALL), metadata mandated by CEA-861.3 for HDR support
+ HEVC: Mastering display color primaries and luminance (based on SMPTE ST 2084), metadata mandated by CEA-861.3 for HDR support
+ HEVC: SMPTE ST 2048 and SMPTE ST 428-1 transfer characteristics
+ HEVC: Chroma subsampling location (indication of the location type described in the HEVC spec)
+ MPEG-TS: ATSC Modulation Mode (Analog, SCTE_mode_1 aka 64-QAM, SCTE_mode_2 aka 256-QAM, 8-VSB, 16-VSB)
+ #B981, MP4: support of buggy file having "hint" SubType
x HLS: better handling of media playlists having EXT-X-BYTERANGE
Version 0.7.82, 2016-01-27
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+ Matroska: CRC-32 validation
+ Matroska: support of padding/junk at the start of a segment
+ Matroska: trace is activated for all elements (but report is still based on the first element met)
+ Matroska: add an intermediate level in the trace for the raw stream parser
x FLV: potential infinite loop fixed
x #B966, DTS: DTS-HD HR 3840 not detected anymore
x AC-3: wrong sample rate with 32 kHz streams
x #B948, EBUCore 1.6: invalid output due to position of containerEncoding element
x #B957, MPEG-7 output: No XML encoded value output
Version 0.7.81, 2015-12-31
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+ Acquisition Metadata: support of all SMPTE RDD18 elements
+ Matroska: cover presence and content of the cover, thanks to Max Pozdeev
+ #F446, Matroska: Handling of cropping values, thanks to Max Pozdeev
+ Improvement of Python binding: Mac Os X support, Python2 and Python3 can use same MediaInfoDLL.py
+ #F484, AVI: OpenDML Interlaced / Progressive scan type detection
+ MP4: support of AtomicParsley imdb tag
x #B959, MPEG-TS: MPEG-1 Video appeared as MPEG-2 Video
x #B914, Matroska: Undefined number of chapters in some M4V with Timed Text, thanks to Max Pozdeev
x #B962, Matroska: negative timecodes were not correctly handled
x #B964, FLV: was hanging trying to open some FLV files
x JPEG in AVI or MOV: better handling of buggy APP0/AVI1, avoiding some false positives about interlacement
x DVCPRO HD: some containers consider DVCPRO HD as with width 1920 despite the fact it is 1280 or 1440, using 1280 or 1440 in all cases
Version 0.7.80, 2015-11-30
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+ Matroska: support of MKVMerge statistics tags (duration frame count, stream size, bit rate) per track, thanks to ndjamena
+ FLAC: Channel positions, thanks to ndjamena
+ FLAC: difference between detected bit depth and stored bit depth
+ MPEG-TS: if DTVCC transport stream is present and no DTVCC service descriptor, scan also in the middle of the file in order to detect more caption services
+ Subtitle frame rate computing if frame count and duration are available (hidden by default)
+ Subtitles in Matroska: count of elements
+ Matroska, MXF and MP4/MOV: detection of truncated files
+ DTS: difference between ES Matrix and ES Discrete
+ DTS: display ES Matrix or ES Discrete even if HRA or MA is present
+ DTS: difference between DTS-HRA with 96k option and pure DTS-96/24
+ DTS: detection of DTS:X
+ Samples per frame info
+ AC-3: detection of Atmos inside TrueHD
+ Video frame rate: showing precision of 1/1.001 frame rates (e.g. "23.976 (24000/1001) fps" and "23.976 (23976/1000) fps")
+ MPEG-4/MOV: showing the complete list of compatible brands in the CodecID field
+ MPEG-4/MOV: Alternate groups
+ MPEG-4/MOV: "Disabled" tag
+ MPEG-4/MOV: "Forced" tag
+ MPEG-4/MOV: showing links between tracks (chapters for, subtitles for, fallback for)
+ MXF: handling of more acquisition metadata items
+ MXF: Package name
+ AVC: Store method of interlaced content (Interleaved Fields or Separated Fields)
+ EBUCore: acquisition metadata (Proof of concept, for feedback only)
x Matroska: frame rate detection algorithm revisited, less wrong numbers are expected
x SDP/Teletext: some pages were sometimes (when present in 2 different SDP lines) displayed several times
x MPEG-4/MOV: some hint tracks were not displayed
Version 0.7.79, 2015-11-02
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+ CLI/DLL only, XML: new option --Output=MIXML, with XML v2.0beta1 status, not for production, see https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaAreaXml for more details
+ MediaTrace: support of more than 1 file in XML output.
+ CLI/DLL only, XML: new option --Output=MAXML, with XML v0.1 status, in order to have bot MediaInfo and MediaTrace in the same output, not for production, see https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaAreaXml for more details
x MediaTrace: fixed some invalid outputs
x #B951, Amazon S3 support (REST API v2), CLI/DLL only and if compiled with libcurl support: URL without credential were badly interpreted
Version 0.7.78, 2015-10-02
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+ MOV: AVrp CodecID support
+ Video Stored_Width/Stored_Height and Sampled_Width/Sampled_Height added (hidden by default)
+ Speed optimization for the parsing of tiny files e.g. JPEG files
+ Option (command line / DLL) --Legacy=0 for disabling some legacy fields
+ Option (command line / DLL) --Output=MAXML, XML with MediaInfo and MediaTrace output together, technology preview (not for production)
x MPEG-TS: Teletext and Teletext Subtitle were missing in the menu list
x Chroma subsampling "4:4:4" was sometimes indicated for RGB, which is not useful
The change logs between 0.7.65 and 0.7.77 total several hundred lines, and
consists primarily of very detailed per-codec trivia. The complete change
logs can be found in the source distribution as MediaInfo/History_CLI.txt and
MediaInfoLib/History_DLL.txt.
Pkgsrc:
- patch-MediaInfoLib_Source_MediaInfo_Text_File__Ttml.h applied upstream.
- pkglint a bit.
- mediainfo appears to have done some work in avoiding bashisms, so remove
"bash" from the tools.
- CONFIG_SHELL doesn't need to be explicitly bash any longer. Possibly this
was only ever necessary because bash seems to be the only shell that was
willing to treat a garbage shell substitution (caused by a bug in the
configure.ac) as somehow legal.
- ... and libmediainfo now actually builds if you accidentally on purpose
override CONFIG_SHELL to be pdksh.
* Split mediaindo into devel/libzen, libmediainfo, and mediainfo.
Changelog:
Version 0.7.65, 2013-11-20
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+ MXF: forcing detection of MPEG Video in case EssenceCompression is not present but MPEG2VideoDescriptor is present
+ GXF: detection of some captions and time codes event if they are not present at the beginning of the file (testing middle of the file)
+ DASH MPD: basic support
+ HDS F4M (Flash Media Manifest): basic support
+ DCP AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
+ IMF AssetMap (AM), PackageList (PKL) and CompositionPlaylist (CPL): basic support
+ Mac dylib: looking for the dylib in @executable_path and CFBundleCopyExecutableURL dir
+ AAC: option for instantaneous bitrate in fast detect mode (MediaInfoLib only)
+ FTP (custom builds only): support of UTF-8 file names
+ Colour description: colour_description_present added, better separation between bitstream values and container values
+ MPEG-4: RLE, color space and bit depth
+ Law rating: support of CEA-608 XDS Content Advisory in MPEG-PS, MPEG-Ts, LXF, GXF
+ MPEG-4/MOV: Bug found in one file, sample size is 16 with a 32-bit CodecID ("fl32"), correcting the output of MediaInfo
x #B775, AVI: AVI can use negative height for raw to signal that it's coded top-down, not bottom-up
x #B780, MPEG-TS: crash with some files having PAT/PMT change between begin and end of the file
x #B782, PBCore 1.2: some fields were not in the right order
x #B784, some humain readable strings were not removed when the corresponding field is removed
x #B787, MPEG-4/QuickTime: Erratic appereance of Bitrate Mode
x #B798: setlocale() remove from DLL
x #B785, DVCPRO HD: streams can be 8 or 10 bit, removing hard coded value from DV parser (MXF header value is used instead when applicable)
x MPEG-4: wrong demux of some E-AC-3 streams
x AAC: detection of HE-AACv2 was missing if the library is configured with fast detection
x MPEG Video: wrong computing of duration of raw stream in case of drop frame time code
x Automation, StreamKind type was set to integer, it is text
x MPEG-4: was reading lot of useless bytes from disk when the raw stream format is not known
x AVI: crash with some malformed text streams
x Reference/playlist files were not supported from FTP (custom builds only)
x MPEG-4/MOV: ScanOrder was using "stored" value instead of "displayed" value
x MXF: Detection of Dolby E was not working in some cases (regression in 0.7.62)
x MPEG-4/MOV: freeze with some files having mono 32-bit PCM
Version 0.7.64, 2013-07-05
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+ New canonical URL of the website: http://MediaArea.net/MediaInfo
+ Portuguese, Basque and Russian translations updated
+ E-AC-3: support of streams having substreams (e.g. more than 6 channels)
+ JPEG: detection of YUVA, RGB, RGBA and YCCK color spaces
+ MPEG Audio: detection of Id3v1 inside an MPEG Audio frame
+ Matroska: support of HEVC/H.265 (based on specifications draft from DivX inc)
+ Canopus: detection of scan mode, scan order, pixel aspect ratio
+ MD5 generation option (work in progress)
+ Id3v2: reading of all Id3v2 blocks (no more only the first one) at the beginning of the file
+ MPEG-4: support of few additional iTunes tags, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ AVI: detection of Ut Video, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ MXF: detection of Dolby E even if EssenceCompression is not SMPTE 337
+ AIFF: detection of Dolby E
+ AIFF: detection of not aligned Dolby E
+ ARIB B24/B37: Caption_conversion_type display (HD, SD, Mobile)
+ MPEG-TS: displaying CEA-708 service and CEA-608 presence if the corresponding ATSC descriptor is present
+ MPEG-TS: quicker analysis in the case of quick parsing option
+ #F412, Matroska: Handling of files having no DocType
x #B761, MPEG-TS/ARIB: crash with some streams, thanks to maki
x #B765, Matroska: was parsing the complete file if a stream indicated in the header is not present
x #B763, MXF: detection of incoherency of channel count between bitstream and wrapper
x #B762, Matroska: detecting 23.976 frame rate (instead of 23.962 fps due to imprecise timestamp)
x #B759, QuickTime: detection of time codes having tcmi not embedded in tmcd box
x #B766, RMVB: a/v delay is incorrect, currently disabling it
x #B768, MPEG-4, crash with some MPEG-4 files
x #B769, MPEG-4, crash with some MPEG-4 files
x #B764, AVC: wrong parsing of some streams having pic_scaling_matrix
x AVC, crash with some AVC streams
x AAC, infinite loop with some AAC streams
x FLV, infinite loop with some FLV files
x Matroska: crash with some malformed files
x MOV: crash/long parsing with some malformed files
x AC-3: crashes and freezes fix
x Java 64-bit: Count_Get(StreamKind) was always returning 0
x Python 64-bit: Count_Get(StreamKind) was always returning 0
x DTS: some streams were not detected
x DTS: some memory leaks with 14-bit streams
x SMPTE ST 302: memory leaks
x SMPTE ST 337: memory leaks
x Total failure if MEDIAINFO_REFERENCES_NO #define was used
x QuickTime: Time code name is in "Title" field
x MPEG-4/QuickTime: handling of weird "negative" frame duration is stts
Version 0.7.63, 2013-05-13
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+ Switched to a BSD-2-Clause license
+ LXF: AFD (from ancillary stream) support
+ Detection of some side car files and showing them as a single package (optional)
+ MOV: more channel positions information
+ TTML: detection
+ SAMI: detection
+ ID3: updated list of genres, thanks to Mats
+ .so: search a local copy of the library before trying default path
+ AVI: Support of Adobe PARf (Aspect Ratio) chunk
+ VC-3: Scan order
+ #P65, Flac/Ogg DISCTOTAL metadata support, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ #P67, MOV, add Hap Video to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ #P67, Matroska, add VP9 to the database, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ #P68, FLV, add HEVC detection in the FLV parser
+ #P66, MOV, tref/chap handling, with chapters information, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ #P72, MOV, HEVC/H265 detection and basic support, thanks to Kurtnoise
+ #F382/P75, PMP format detection
+ MPEG-TS, HEVC/H265 support
+ 16:10 DAR known value
x #B742, MPEG-4/MOV, crash with some truncated/invalid files
x #B746, MPEG-4/MOV: crash with files having moof atom and no moov atom
x #B747, Inconsistent hang with buffer API
x #B757, MediaInfoDLL.py MediaInfoList was not working, thanks to Elbenfreund
x #B740, XML: dt:dt is replaced by dt (for binary data)
x MXF: Dolby E streams starting only at the second or third frame were not well detected
x MPEG-4/MOV: reducing analysis time for I-frame only video streams
x CEA-708: weird behavior phantom streams are displayed) in case of buggy CEA-708
x AVI: crash with audio delay and AvgBytesPerSec of 0
x Wrong demuxing of the caption stream in the case of AVC streams without frame_mbs_only_flag but having 2 fields in one slarsing was very slow with a sequence of files.
x MXF: Pre-charge duration was not read, time code of the first frame was wrong if "Origin" is not 0
x FLV: file was sometimes (e.g. most of the file padded with zeroes) fully parsed
x VC-3: Using values from specifications (based on compression ID) instead of SBD/SST/SPL/APLF from bitstream
x #738, mediainfo-qt doesn't build
Version 0.7.62, 2012-02-22
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+ ARIB STD B24/B37 caption detection (both Japanese and Brazilian versions)
+ LXF: support of AVC, VC-3, MPEG audio, AC-3, Dolby E, and AAC detection and analysis
+ AC-3: support of 22.05 kHz streams (out of specs but they exist)
+ MOV: AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec) scan type detection
+ MOV: support of AVID metadata (interlacement information)
+ Time code dedicated tracks (MOV, MXF, GXF)
+ Time code track (MPEG-4/MOV, GXF, MXF)
+ Time code in SDTI (MXF)
+ Time code in System scheme 1 (MXF)
+ Time code in SMPTE RP 188 (aka SMPTE ST 12-2 aka ATC aka VANC) (GXF, LXF, MXF)
+ Time code in SMPTE RP 196 (aka HANC)
+ MPEG Video Time code
+ MPEG-TS: format_identifier, pointer_field, section_length (hidden by default)
+ CEA-608/708: caption detection duration is increased to 15 seconds (or 64 MB) in order to miss less caption content
+ Image files as a video stream: file name of the last file
x #727, MOV: crash with some malformed files (Time scale set to 0)
x #728, AAC: crash with some malformed streams
x #681, AVI: was not analyzing VBR streams without bit rate info in header
x #736: Division by 0 with 0-byte files
x Id3v2: crash with some malformed tags
x Bit rate display was "0 bps" if the real bit rate is more than 4 Gbps
x Division by 0 in case of 0 byte long file
x MPEG-4: wrong muxing mode information in case of A/53 captions in MPEG Video in MOV
x P2 Clip: wrong uppercase/lowercase in the file name of source files.
x MOV: PCM endianness was sometimes wrong
x MPEG-4: JPEG interlacement was sometimes wrong
x MPEG Video: wrong DAR information in case of DAR change between begin and end of the file
Version 0.7.61, 2012-10-22
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+ MPEG-TS: SCTE 35 and KLV streams are better displayed (in Menu part)
+ MPEG-TS: Menu part contains the list of PID with unknown format
+ MPEG-TS: Menu part lists PID in the PMT order instead of increasing order
+ Display of both container and stream scan type and scan order
+ DV100: scan order
+ MXF: scan order
+ MPEG-TS: Maximum and minimum overal bit rate (only if parse speed is set to 1)
+ MPEG-TS, MPEG-S, MXF, AVI, WM: StreamOrder field added
+ MXF: better support of malformed VANC streams
+ MPEG Video: improved detection of the GOP (more frames are used), "Variable" value
+ MPEG-PS: FirstPacketOrder info added
+ SkipBinaryData option
x #3564456, Matroska: some (other) streams were wrongly detected sa VFR
x #3570092, Id3v2: support of old COM and ULT fields
x CEA-708: crash with some malformed streams
x MPEG-TS: crash when PCR is corrupted (same value at different offsets)
x QuickTIme: wrong channel count report in case of buggy chan atom. Now the stream description has priority over chan atom
x E-AC-3: duration was wrong in some cases
x Matroska: random wrong analysis in case of SimpleBlock mode
x #3574436, MOV: hang on files having buggy "alis" atom
x MPEG-TS: bit rate mode detection was sometimes too much strict about CBR
x DV: wrong detection in case of buggy audio header (if present and set to 0xFF)
x MPEG-4: crash in case of buggy aperture size atom
x MediaInfo_Const.h was missing in the DLL package for Mac
x MPEG-PS: detection of phantom streams
x WAV: detection of malformed >4GB WAV files was no more working
x DTS: computing bit rate from frame size instead of targeted transmission rate
x DTS: setting the bit rate to "unknown" for Master Audio instead of instantaneous bit rate
x DTS: Display of endianess and word size was not coherent
Version 0.7.60, 2012-09-02
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+ MPEG-TS/PS: improved detection of buggy time stamps
+ DPX: color primaries and transfer characteristics
+ MPEG-TS: Added support of scrambled streams without transport_scrambling_control bit set (e.g. PlayReady)
+ MPEG-TS: Name of some scrambling algorithms
+ MPEG-TS: detection of CBR/VBR at container level
+ MPEG Video: better detection of variable GOP
+ MPEG-TS: average, minimum, maximum PCR distance (hidden by default and you must parse the whole file with --ParseSpeed=1 option)
x Matroska: some streams were wrongly detected sa VFR
x #3538378, XML output: invalid characters, now if there is an invalid character, data is transported in base64
x LXF: wrong video bit rate with some files
x AC-3/E-AC-3: hang up with some Little Endian streams
x AAC: wrong min and max bit rate in case of partial (default) parsing, disabling it
x AVC: crash or hang up with some malformed/scrambled streams
x Opus: wrong duration in case of non-48kHz stream
x MOV: 25 fps + drop frame time codes were not handled correctly
Version 0.7.59, 2012-08-08
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+ License: Switched back to LGPLv2+Exceptions
+ #3555183, PCX support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ #3555182, PSD support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ #3555181, Matroska: ALAC detection, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ #3540425, OGG/MKV: Opus speech format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ #3531808, AVI: detecting more inconsistencies in stream durations
+ GXF: crash with Time code tracks without frame rate info
+ MPEG-4: stream order (hidden by default), in order to provide the same numbers as mkvtoolnix 5.2+ Track ID
+ QuickTime: default channel map is "L R" for stereo streams (as it seems to be in QuickTime player)
+ MPEG-4: support of WMA (version 1, version 2, Pro, Lossless) in MPEG-4
+ FLV: handling of metadata with an underscore before the real metadata name
+ MXF: support of files with header missing TrackNumber in the descriptor (if it is present only in footer)
+ MXF: Language from DMS-1
+ ProRes: analysis of the ProRes raw stream (including scan order for interlaced content)
+ colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients: canonicalization of results
+ MPEG-4 Visual: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
+ ProRes: colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics, matrix_coefficients
+ GIF: Display Aspect Ratio
x #3533984, different behavior depending of compilation options (so Linux version was missing some info)
x MPEG-4: audio/video delay was wrong in case of negative delay
x CEA-608: Memory leaks removed
x AVC: crash in case of analyzing some invalid SEI
x MPEG Audio: crash with some files having Lyrics 2 tags
x MPEG Audio: crash with some files having APE tags
x AVI: secondary genre comes after primary genres in the "Genre" field
x FLV: better handling of files containing more than 1 meta chunk
x MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: was aborting during full parsing in the case of very damaged streams
x Vorbis: infinite loop if codebook_entries>=256
x Id3v2: crash with some unsynchronized frames, especially with UTF-16 comments
x Id3v2: Wrong mime type of covers
x MPEG-PS: crash in case of language info in descriptors
x Java binding: crash with MediaInfo::Inform() (Windows 32-bit only)
x MPEG-TS: false-positive in case of some MPEG-4 files with wrong extension
x FLV: crash in some specific cases (malformed files)
x 3548314, MVC: Scan type was wrong with MVC-only (without the underlying AVC stream) stream
x 3553588, MPLS: stream duration was wrong with standalone (without the referenced M2TS) files
x 3553588, MPLS: incoherent behavior with MPLS having more than one PlayListItem
x 3554154, MPEG-TS: crash with some corrupted streams
x MOV: all EIA/CEA-608 captions were not well detected
x Matroska: Trying to better detect VFR streams, frame rate was wrong in case of interlaced content
Version 0.7.58, 2012-05-28
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+ AC-3: Little Endian streams support
+ LXF: AVC streams support
+ ISM: better support
+ File referencing other files (HLS, ISM...): menu in case there is more than 1 stream per referenced file
+ MPEG-TS: option for keeping streams detected at the beginning then disabled in a an update of the PMT (activated by default)
+ MPEG-PS: program_map_section support for uncommon streams embedded in MPEG-PS
x Referenced files (MXF, HLS, MOV, P2, XDCAM...): issues with source name, track order, files size
x MPEG-TS/MPEG-PS: regression, some files with AC-3/DTS/DVD subtitles were not well analyzed anymore
x MPEG-4 channel mapping: Lt and Rt (matrix-encoded) channel mapping were missing
x GXF: handling of buggy files having non-PCM AES3 codec identifier but actually having PCM
x MPEG-4: better support of MPEG-4 files having corrupted metadata atom
x 3529510, EIA/CEA-708: was not detected if the stream was not present at the beginning, thanks to Pete Chapman
Version 0.7.57, 2012-05-02
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+ #3513490, Vorbis comment (Flac, Ogg): more tags are supported
+ XML-based formats (P2, XDCAM, DCP, ISM, HLS...): support of UTF-16 encoding
+ MPEG-4: for buggy PCM, prioritizing the codec ID "in24" = 24-bit against the bit depth field
x #3516900, Vorbis comment (Flac, Ogg): trying to do better mapping of PERFORMER and ARTIST tags
x MXF: wrong video frame count in some cases
x #3517374, GCC 4.7: compilation issues removal, thanks to SpepS
x MPEG-PS: some files were not well demuxed so analysis was sometimes wrong (especially macroblock parsing)
Version 0.7.56, 2012-04-08
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+ Better support of machines lacking of std::stringstream
+ Better support of machines requesting explicit stdc++ library link option (e.g. some ARM embedded devices)
x #3515515, MPEG-4: crash with MPEG-4 container + H264/AVC video stream
x #3515393, MPEG Audio: infinite loop (freeze) with some files
x #3514677, Video: Well known 1.85:1 display aspect ratio was incorrectly displayed as 16:9
x #3513908, File interface: No output if filename contain a colon
x #3515893, MPEG-4: some specific files were not detected
x AVI: infinite loop (freeze) with some files (having index containing 0-sized chunk)
x AVC: memory leaks
x libcurl support: libcurl config from MediaInfo is compatible with libcurl+gnutls
x #3515857, CLI only: --LogFile carriage return format was not the one of the OS
Version 0.7.55, 2012-04-05
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+ AC-3: support of little endian streams
+ LXF: support of format version 0
+ HLS: support of .m3u8 index and sequence referencing a bunch of MPEG-TS files
+ MPEG-4: Added support of glbl atom and corresponding 4CC (ai12, ai15, ai1q, ai5q)
+ MPEG-4: Added detection of files with mx5p files wrongly filled with raw MPEG Video instead of MXF
+ MPEG-TS: Detection of 20-bit Dolby E even if the SMPTE 302 M header is set to 24-bit
x #3513490, Id3v2: mapping of "Encoded by" and "Encoding library" is conform to the specs now
x MXF: hang up with some clip-wrapped files
x MPEG-4: AVC-100 bit rate was not coherent depending of the container (MPEG-4 or MXF)
x reVTMD output is disabled due to its non-free (point of view of FSF and DFSG) licensing.
Version 0.7.54, 2012-03-13
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+ #3480111, Matroska: parsing of WebM-style frame rate info
+ #3499859, ALAC: parsing of the alac atom, for real bit depth / sample rate
+ #3487601, DV: fields order (TFF/BFF)
+ MPEG-4: more video 4CCs binded to MPEG Video
+ H.263: raw stream parsing (width, height, aspect ratio), comparison with container data
+ Speed improvements
+ MPEG-PS: supporting parsing of some non-conform files
+ Full support of CEA-608 (separation of CC1-CC4, T1-T4)
+ #3494722, MPEG-4: trying to detect wrong duration in track header
+ MPEG-4 with embedded MXF track (XDCAM...): separation of video bitrate and padding bitrate
+ Compound streams (e.g. DV): separation of video bitrate and audio bitrate
+ Blu-ray: LPCM mono real bit rate is separated from the encoded (stereo) bit rate
+ Support of https, sftp scp protocols (custom builds only)
+ AVI: vprp (OpenDML) display aspect ratio support
x #3480111, Matroska: some frame rates are incorrect in the file, trying to detect this kind of malformed file
x #3479494, AVC: segmentation fault
x #3440638, AAC: wrong detection for some malformed AAC streams
x #3440638, MPEG-4: wrong analysis of some files having track header after media information
x #3480111, MXF: Height was wrong for MXF with FrameLayout = Mixed fields
x #3468235, Blu-ray: displaying PGS in all cases (even if PES is not detected, they are too much rare)
x #3498846, MPEG-4: delay between audio and video was no more detected
x #3495573, MPEG-4: crash with some files having fragments
x MPEG-4: channel position in case of channel atom is configured with ChannelBitmap
x MPEG-TS: crash with some buggy files (a PID indicated as PSI and PES at the same time)
x AES3: not detecting Dolby E stream if there is guard band before the Dolby E frame, in MPEG-TS
x DPX: some files with some invalid fields were not detected
x DTVCC Captions: crash with some buggy streams
Version 0.7.53, 2012-01-24
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+ DV: option for ignoring transmitting flags (TF1/TF2/TF3) (DLL and CLI only)
+ Matroska: ProRes detection
+ MPEG-4: official DTS CodecIDs (dtsc/dtsh/dtsl/dtse) support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
+ Matroska: stream order (hidden by default), in order to provide the same numbers as mkvtoolnix 5.2+ Track ID
+ #3471516, BLu-ray: wrong channel count for mono/3-channel/5-channel/7-channel PCM streams
+ AVI: ISMP (SMPTE Time code), Tdat tc_o/tc_a (Adobe Premier time code) support
+ reVTMD output
+ --Output is synonym of --Inform option
x QuickTime: crash and sometimes wrong info with some files having compressed header
x MPEG-4: commercial format typo error (EX422 instead of HD422)
x MXF: handling wrong MXF header having frame height instead of field height
x #3471053, Tags: Id3v1 tag was used instead of Id3v2 if the file is short
x #3463117, MPEG-TS: crash if Conditioal Access PID is same as the PES
x Custom output: better handling of cases with special character strings (\n...) in the file content
x #3440664: Audio only AVI file is missing duration
x #3453476: detection so incorrect duration information in tkhd atom
x Detailled XML output was producing duplicate xml-tags
Version 0.7.52, 2011-12-19
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+ MXF with referenced files: if the referenced file is not available, trying to open local files
+ MPEG Video: GOP size for I-Frame only streams
+ MXF: support of CEA-608 in ancillary data for some other formats than MPEG Video, if there is no B-frame
+ LXF: support of SMPTE ST291/CDP/CEA-608/CEA-708 in ancillary data
+ WAV: better handling of files not having word alignment
x DV: crash (division by zero) in some cases
x DV: DVCPRO HD was sometimes not detected (low bitrate)
x MXF: Crash if AFD field has an invalid value
x MXF: Wrong endianess for some big endian PCM streams
x MXF: some MXF referencing files have wrong duration
x MXF: duration was wrong with some specific files
x DVD-Video: detection of 20-bit and 24-bit PCM
x XML output: it was sometimes containing some invalid characters
x MPEG-4: considering default char set as ISO-8859-1
x MXF: better handling of referencing files having the same ID for all tracks
x MXF: Handling of MXF files with wrong FooterPartition field
x MXF: Some captions (not starting at the beginning of the file) were not detected
x WAV: duration was missing is some cases
x RMP3 support was broken
* 2872918, MKV: add support for default and forced track flags
* 3418881, RK Audio format support, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
* 3418883, LA: version field, thanks to Lionel Duchateau
* MPEG-4: basic support of Aigo .3dv files
* MPEG-2 Video: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics,
matrix_coefficients)
* QuickTime: color display info (colour_primaries, transfer_characteristics,
matrix_coefficients)
* QuickTime: ProRes LT, Proxy, 4:4:4 profiles detection
* QuickTime: mpeg CodecID support
* Template inputs are now insensitive to carriage return kind
* MPEG-TS: Support of ISO 8859-2 in EPG
* MPEG-4: more CodedIDs supported
* GXF: more info about DV streams
* GXF: Handling of files with more than 1 Time code
* 3414326, GXF: using only the first map chunk for duration calculation
* 3414513, Id3v2: was not able to extract covers with UTF-16 description
* 3417908, video from several files: crash if there is not enough place for the
frame number
* 3433602, DVD-Video (IFO): Crash when scanning some malformed IFO files
* Matroska: parser hanging in case of huge zero-padded files
* MPEG-4: was not providing some info about tracks with sample table before
media header
* MXF: better support of corrupted indexes
* 3429831, MediaInfo library: unload wrong DLL, thanks to McSpecky
* MPEG-TS: Better handling of EPG running_status flag
* MXF: Handling of "file:///" in Network loacators
* FLV: audio delay was sometimes wrong
* H264: Buffer size was in bytes instead of bits like with other formats
* 3429196: no output if absolute file name, on Linux
* 3187050, FLV: wrong detection when FLV header is corrupt
* BLu-ray: crash if MPLS files are on the root of a disk
* Blu-ray: parsing was very slow if MPLS was pointing thousands of times on the
same file
* 3292830, Matroska: crash if AAC sample rate is not provided by the container
Version 0.7.9, 2009-01-19
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+ OGG: Dirac support
+ OGG: Speex support
+ OGG: other formats (JNG, Kate, MIDI, PCM...) detection
+ SWF: detection of more audio streams
+ MPEG-PS: Handling of PlayStation2 audio
+ #2474119, Minimal MZ (PE) and ELF detection
+ SMV (WAV/ADPCM+JPG files) file format support
+ DPG (Nintendo DS) file format support
+ QuickTime: TimeCode track analysis
+ MPEG-4 subtitles: difference between 'text' and 'tx3g' codecIDs
x Python binding update for more compatibilty
x #2474280, OGG: handling of files with Skeleton Metadata
x #2445654, OGG: better false-positives detection
x #2493685, AVI: Wrong video duration for some malformed 4GB+ AVI/DV files
x #2516007, "Language" raw tag was sometimes 3 letter long instead of 2-letter long
x Floating point overflow correction
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
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 (container) does MediaInfo support?
- Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DVD (VOB)... (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
- Different methods of viewing information (text, sheet, tree, HTML...)
- You can customise these views
- Exporting information as text, CSV, HTML...
- Internationalisation: Any language display on any version of your
operating system
- Localisation capability (but volunteers needed)