Command-line tool

media-info

brew/media-info

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC · Listing refreshed from Homebrew, winget, npm, Scoop and cargo; npm packages checked against OSV.dev

Unified display of technical and tag data for audio/video video 视频 media audio 音频 multimedia 多媒体 媒体 metadata 元数据 video-metadata

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id MediaArea.MediaInfo -e
scoop install mediainfo

macOS

brew install media-info

Linux

brew install media-info

Display metadata for a given file in the console

mediainfo file

Store the output to a given file along with displaying in the console

mediainfo --Logfile=out.txt file

List metadata attributes that can be extracted

mediainfo --Info-Parameters

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