With the increased number of different formats these days, it is not very easy to look at some of their characteristics.

MediaInfo is a simple utility, supported by Windows 95 / 98 / Me / 2000 /XP / 2003 / Vista / 7, that can provide the user with metadata about their audio and video files collection, including codecs, and frames per second.

The program has a very easy to use and intuitive interface with menus across the top and buttons down the left side. You are able to select one or many files to open and view at once. There are eight different views to choose from – Basic, Sheet, Tree, Text, HTML, XML, MPEG-7, and PBCore 1.2 – each of which provides a variety of different information, such as file size, duration, bit rate, compression mode, and color space. The metadata can be exported in CSV, sheet, text, Graphical Interface, Command Line, or HTML file if you wish to do so.

There is Frequently Asked Questions on the publisher’s website to help the new users, but the program is really self-explanatory, mostly for users who already know what all of this metadata means. MediaInfo is definitely a program that’s meant for people who already have substantial experience working with audio and video files, not because it’s hard to use, but because what it does will be of little use to amateurs. The supported formats are MKV, OGM, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DVD, OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, and AIFF.

Get it at MediaInfo.

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