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Rating by HemLok on Oct 6, 2022 Version: 22.09 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




The tool is very helpful to find out parameters of unknown media.
In the same time it's the most uncomfortable and unhandy interface I've ever seen!
I would spend some money for a proper redesign.

Review by marvin42 on Jun 24, 2022 Version: all OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 3/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 6/10




Rating by Mark on Apr 17, 2021 Version: 2.513 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 7/10 Overall: 7/10




I registered an account just so I could say what an awesome app you've created! Very useful, and a great technical achievement! THANK YOU for your work and talent with the world - for FREE!
I have _no_ criticisms at all, it works great! If I were forced to give you 1 recommendation I would say the UI could possibly use a little smoothing out - but please do not take it negatively!
I will recommend your app to every friend I have (both of them!).

Review by HannibalAnthrope on Oct 8, 2020 Version: 20.08 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Rating by Hitomi on Aug 11, 2020 Version: 20.08 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Michael Sunborn on Aug 2, 2019 Version: 19.07 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Is the 18.12 the final build? no longer upgraded? I have to say that ffprobe seems better.

Review by capitellino on Apr 23, 2019 Version: 18.12 OS: Vista Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 5/10 Overall: 5/10




Rating by Mojo on Jun 18, 2018 Version: `8.05 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Excellent free software, must have for me.

Review by tuco76 on May 14, 2018 Version: 18.05 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by Wakaku on Mar 11, 2018 Version: 17.12 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by ams_guy on Aug 6, 2017 Version: 0.7.97 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Rating by gonwk on Apr 27, 2017 Version: 0.7.94 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




No issues under Windows 8.1, tooltip pops right up.

Review by mail2tom on Jul 24, 2016 Version: 0.7.87 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




the latest version(0.7.87)is no good.
It does not appear seconds duration of the video file on the tooltip.
so i'm using 0.7.80.

Review by kerott on Jul 24, 2016 Version: 0.7.80 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Thanks to the Author for this Wonderful FREE tool and author continues to update it.
Keep up the Great work & THANKS!:)

Review by gonwk on May 5, 2016 Version: 0.7.85 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




There are somewhere between 1500 and 1600 items that can be looked up depending on whether It is an image, video, audio, menu, text, etc or combination of them. I think it would be pretty hard to come up with a GUI that lets you select any or all. That's a lot of drop boxes or check boxes. A truncated function GUI yes, a full function GUI...

BTW the fix for the mouse over failure is just open MediaInfo and set that feature off then Open and set on again to set it into the registry. It gets reset every new version.

Review by Budman1 on Mar 31, 2016 Version: 0.7.79 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




The uggliest interface I ever saw!!!
Can someone spend a nice GUI for the tool? ;)

Review by Jim_pansen on Mar 31, 2016 Version: 0.7.84 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 5/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 5/10




@AllisOne
it has nothing to do with leftovers, it's indeed a bug, I reported it time ago and it was confirmed by the developer, look at https://sourceforge.net/p/mediainfo/bugs/932/
Really a shame that's not already fixed after many updates since then.

Review by TGB on Sep 19, 2015 Version: 0.7.77 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 6/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 6/10




@TGB: I think it happens when you install a new version over the old one. First uninstall the old version (the best way is to use some uninstalling program that cleans registry as well - Revo Pro, CCleaner, etc), then install the new version and check in Options - Preferences, if Explorer Tooltip is ticked.

Review by AllisOne on Jun 25, 2015 Version: 0.7.74 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Explorer tooltip doesn't work on windows 7 64bit.

Review by TGB on Jun 24, 2015 Version: 07.74 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 7/10




An indispensable tool, as soon as you adopted it – at least if you are careful and mistrustful enough and don't install the bundled crapware. Should be included in any OS;) With the Linux version, I miss the tooltip info when the mouse is over the file icon. And now I miss the tooltip with MKV files; I think it was present in former versions. For MKV, you need to open the file in order to get the needed info.

Review by Francois_C on Feb 13, 2015 Version: 0.7.72 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The lite version does not show the bitrate of AAC audio in mkv container. Don't know if the other version does which is 4.4 MB.

Review by pearlblack15 on Jan 17, 2014 Version: 0.7.67 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Powerful tool yet simple to use and understand also at its first usage. As description say during installation Mediainfo is an adware but i got used to it and i always pay attention.
I have installed 0.7.67 Windows 64 bit version, the last update, and it happend sometimes that Mediainfo had crashed. If someone have my same issue please report.

Review by dontrythisathome on Jan 17, 2014 Version: 0.7.67 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Powerful but simple tool.Easy to use

Review by eagletdw on Nov 30, 2013 Version: 0.7.64 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




Can we get an option to have the bigger screen back if we want it? Small by default with an option to make it bigger like a lot of us wanted. Doesn't seem right to add it after years of people asking for it and then removing it in the next release because two people didn't like it. An option is all we want.

Review by DarrellS on Aug 18, 2013 Version: 0.7.64 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Thank you for this tool. Works great :)

Review by vastra on Jul 2, 2013 Version: 0.7.63 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




4.2 MB for such an application is a waste for me. It doesn't provide anything more than the Mediainfo Lite version which is just around 1 MB. And on top of that, mediainfo lite version wraps the encoding info of the file while this doesn't. I don't see its advantage compared to media info lite which is same. Btw videohelp could also make available the lite version (DLL version). Its not available in the official site.

Review by pearlblack15 on Feb 24, 2013 Version: .76.1 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




I was all excited to see a new version, 0.7.62 was released. But I really don't like the giant GUI window, it is very annoying. When I resize the GUI it does NOT keep my preferred size. So, I am going back to 0.7.60. Can you fix it in 0.7.63, hint, hint, hint.

Review by irish003 on Feb 23, 2013 Version: 7.62 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 3/10




Thank you so much for making the GUI larger. I know you've been saying for years that you were going to work on it. Better late than never. It was just so annoying having to manually enlarge the window every time you opened a file with Mediainfo. Thank you! A video info Details Column in Explorer would be nice :)

Review by DarrellS on Jan 19, 2013 Version: 0.7.61 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Hi MediaInfo Author, Thanks for your Proggie.

I was all excited about the new version, 0.7.61. But I have to say Idon't get why the Super Large GUI window, it is so Annoying, and even after I resize it, it does NOT keep my preferred size. So, I am going back to 0.7.60. May be you can fix in 0.7.62 or whatever.

G!:)

Review by gonwk on Jan 12, 2013 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




With version 0.7.61, I don't get average bitrate of h264 video nor bitrate of DTS-HD streams in MKV files ... A bug ?

Review by sierramike on Dec 17, 2012 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 6/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 6/10




KiwiKid, I give you 11/10 for the tip.
So simple that I'd have never thought about it and very efficient.
Thank you very much.

This tool is excellent and a must.
I gave an 8 for functionality only because first the info on .mkv files is not always accurate and sometimes missing, then it doesn't handle DVD's properly.

Review by skaleton on Dec 11, 2012 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




@Dal, I realized that shortly after commenting, but was unable to edit my comment. And it said only one comment per day.

so just disregard my first comment. I still took a couple points off of functionality because I don't like how the window opens so big. They should change it so (like most programs) the window will open the same size as it was the last time you closed it. If I'm not mistaken, thats how the previous version was.

Review by KushSmoka420 on Nov 10, 2012 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Hi.
If you cannot right click files anymore, you have to first run the program once, from the Start Menu or right from the install folder.

Review by Dal on Nov 9, 2012 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I updated to this current version from 0.7.53 and after the upgrade, I could no longer right click a video file and select mediainfo. It was not even in the right click menu any longer. Not sure if the program even worked at all, because I always use the right click method, so after discovering it didn't work, I just uninstalled and now am reinstalling the older version.

Review by KushSmoka420 on Nov 9, 2012 Version: 0.7.61 OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 1/10




Go for portable version(s),and block it with a fw.

Review by jaodsvuda on May 30, 2012 Version: 0.7.58 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 8/10




contains opencandy

Review by dessieclive on May 30, 2012 Version: 0758 OS: WinXP 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 9/10 Overall: 9/10




For those complaining about missing bitrate info etc each time you install an update open MediaInfo, go to options and untick both Explorer extension and Explorer tooltip, click OK, then go back and retick them and click OK. We shouldn't have to do each time we update but it is a small price to pay for a very useful program.

Review by KiwiKid on Aug 17, 2011 Version: 0.7.48 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




1. View > HTML > right click & print
2. View > TEXT > right click, Copy & Paste into notepad > Print

Review by virtualdoobmon on Aug 16, 2011 Version: 0.7.44 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Need the ability to print out data!

Review by pepegot1 on Aug 15, 2011 Version: .7.47 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Need more data. Bitrate info is missing. Need version 5 or 6 if still available.

Review by mdffyx on Aug 15, 2011 Version: 0.7.47 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 2/10 Overall: 4/10




This software works and gives you information about movies as well audio files and even graphics files.

@pmshah. I discovered this problem too and the solution is actual very simple.
You just uninstall the old version first and install the new version, rather than upgrade the old version.
After you installed the new version start the program and place a V at explorer tooltip and the mouse over function works.

Review by jan5678 on Jul 4, 2011 Version: 0.7.45 OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Last few versions somehow have curtailed functionality or there is something I am doing wrong. All I do is simply update as per the software's suggestion.

Under one of the previous versions (can't remember which) the mouse over worked perfectly and gave full details like resolution, bit rate, included subtitles, duration, associated application, etc. This worked even under Total Commander.

Suddenly this functionality is gone and I get bare minimum information like file name, duration and the configured application to play it. Seems like I will have to download a bunch of oler versions,check them out and stick with the one that works right!

Review by pmshah on Nov 18, 2010 Version: 0.36 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10 Functionality: 5/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




Sourceforge has the wrong version for x64. It downloads as 0.7.33 but installs as 0.7.32 and then displays the banner that there is a new version available.

Review by mail2tom on May 14, 2010 Version: 0.7.33 OS: WinXP 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Latest version still chokes on MPEG2 Transport Streams giving access violation error in module MEDIAINFO_I386.DLL.

Review by mail2tom on May 3, 2010 Version: 0.7.32 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Previous versions worked great but current release chokes on MPEG2 Transport Streams giving access violation error in module MEDIAINFO_I386.DLL.

Review by mail2tom on Apr 27, 2010 Version: 0.7.31 x64 OS: Vista 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Versions 0.7.31 and 0.7.30 report incorrect framerates for MKV files containing H264-video.

Review by El Heggunte on Apr 18, 2010 Version: 0.7.31 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




I have been using this tool for a very long time. It's one of the best.

Review by Ally68 on Jul 12, 2009 Version: 0.7.18 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Good in theory but terrible in practice. It reports completely inaccurate bitrates, about as much use as Gordon Brown on a good day.

Review by mw01908 on Jul 12, 2009 Version: 0.7.18 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 2/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 3/10 Overall: 2/10




Very useful program I use all the time. However, this is supposed to be version 0.7.11, but the "about" screen says it's 0.7.10.

Review by mail2tom on Feb 13, 2009 Version: 0.7.11 OS: WinXP 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Superb! This tool give complete information about all kind of files I have (AVI, MPEG, or MKV)

Review by jerome7573_2 on Oct 17, 2008 Version: 0.7.7.7 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Worked for me on WinXP, no issues. You don't even have to click.

Review by djelimon on Feb 17, 2008 Version: 0.7.5.9 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Would not work on one computer, crashed Media Studio Pro on another. Maybe it's the multiple monitors or something with my system because other seem to really like it. I hope it gets fixed or I find something as good that works for m configuration.

Review by benhoff on Jan 12, 2008 Version: v0.7.5.7 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




Great tool But...this must be the only application in existance which does not remember it's screen position.

Review by GideonK on Jan 10, 2008 Version: 0.7.5.7 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 8/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Easy to use, supports most video formats, like MPG, AVI, WMV, etc... Provides all info I was looking for

Review by Comandante G on Jan 10, 2008 Version: 0.7.5.7 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




The ultimate media file parser.
Without the great medainfo.dll, d2mp would not be possible.
Also a great interface for user level media detections and reports.
Excelent !!!

Review by d2mp on Dec 23, 2006 Version: 0.7.4.3 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




Can't find the audiobitrate of a vbr mp3-stream within .mkv

Review by uzer on Dec 3, 2006 Version: 0.7.4.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 4/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 5/10




Really excellent tool to show you information about most popular container formats, such as .mkv, .ogm, .mp4 and many others.

Review by junglemike on Aug 18, 2006 Version: 0.7.3.1 OS: Win2K Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Tried this program for the first time to see stream details of a vob file (main movie) in a DVD authored by me from scratch using capture by Dazzle DVC2 since I am well aware of the streams present in that vob. Following are the results:-
Gave 2 streams of AC3 being present instead of only a single AC3 channel.
Shows a delay of 300mS in the audio, whereas actually there is no delay as verified using other softwares. The audio/video sync is perfect
Stream type & bitrates showed correctly for both Video & Audio
Original streams are PAL D2 2Mbps CBR video, single 2 channel AC3 audio(encoded using ffmpeg) 192Kbps.
Yet to try other media files.
However, efforts of the Software author is much appreciated

Review by ark on May 10, 2006 Version: 0.7.2.1 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10




[Usage background - locating media files of test data with certain attributes]

Provides useful and comprehensive data.
Mis-reports .gif files as audio files when run on a directory.

"HTML" format a little disappointing.

Full spreadsheet info would be useful when in that display mode, rather than the half-and-half presentation provided.

Seems to consume large amount of CPU when changing directory, sometimes amounting to effectively a lockup - some kind of progress indicator would be useful feedback here.

Would be handy if you could run a scan on a tree of subdirectories and produce a spreadsheet of the contained files, detailing formats, bitrates, etc.

Another good use case when looking for media test data would be able to filter scanned files on codec type, bit rate, audio type, resolution etc.

Review by mikewhit on Dec 15, 2005 Version: 0.7.0.4 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 8/10 Overall: 7/10




Does what it is said to : bitrates, codecs, chapters, audio and subtitles languages, tags... for a lot of differents formats, even if the format is not spread

Review by Jerome7573 on Jul 26, 2005 Version: 0.6.1.1 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




This tool is perfect for giving information about video and audio files.It supports loads of different formats and has a clear,easy to understand interface.
Great freeware,recommended!

Review by laspis59 on Jun 9, 2005 Version: 0.6.0.0 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Does just what it's supposed to: Gives video and audio bitrates, codec, resolution, framerate, etc. of video.

Review by steve2713 on Apr 1, 2005 Version: 0.5.1.2 OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 9/10


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