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MediaArea/MediaInfo

Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo · homepage · C++ · BSD-2-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

  • Activity 97
  • Release rhythm 71
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 76.0
  • age_days: 4467
  • days_rel: 113
  • days_push: 22
  • n_releases_24m: 9

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2001 stars · 194 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MediaInfo is a tool that displays the most relevant technical and tag metadata for video and audio files, available as a CLI, multiple GUIs (Qt, wxWidgets, UWP, VCL), and mobile apps. It is the front-end application for MediaInfoLib and supports a wide range of containers, codecs, and tag formats.

Use cases

  • inspect codec, bitrate, and frame rate of a video file
  • check audio sample rate and channel layout of a media file
  • read ID3 and other metadata tags from media files
  • export media file technical details as CSV or HTML
  • identify container format and subtitle tracks in a video
  • batch-analyze media files from the command line
  • verify media file properties before archiving

When to choose

  • you need detailed technical metadata for video/audio files across many formats
  • you want both a GUI and scriptable CLI for media inspection
  • you need cross-platform support including mobile
  • you want to export media metadata in structured formats like CSV or JSON

When to avoid

  • you need to edit or transcode media files rather than inspect them
  • you need deep bitstream-level conformance checking (consider MediaConch or QCTools)
  • you only need playback, not technical details

Facets

application · maturity stable

cli gui developer-tools media developer-tools cross-platform windows cross-platform cli media-metadata codec-analysis video-inspection audio-inspection container-formats tags subtitles video audio macos linux android ios

7 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
MediaArea/MediaInfomain88

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="MediaArea/MediaInfo")

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