MediaInfoXP Changelog

What's new in MediaInfoXP 2.46

Dec 5, 2023
  • XMP: support of a couple of additional metadata
  • PNG: pixel aspect ratio, gamma, active bit depth
  • PNG: support of textual metadata
  • Detection of active width/height/DAR (based on FFmpeg), Windows only
  • Matroska: show ST-12 timecode of first frame
  • ADM: rounding of FFoA to 0 decimal and Start/End time codes to 2 decimals
  • WAV: support of big (1+ GB) axml chunks
  • ADM: support of big (1+ GB) files on 32-bit systems
  • I1876, BWF: fix missing precision in TimeReference export
  • I1607, MPEG-TS/PS: Less Inform() with Open(memory) than Open(file)
  • MP4/MOV: show right time code of last frame with complex time code tracks
  • Duration: timecode output should not use drop frame for 23.976fps
  • AVC+HEVC: fix handling of DF timestamps
  • SF1188, ID3v2: fix wrong handling of chunks having padding
  • I1887, TS DVB: fix wrong handling of UTF-8 strings in service name
  • I1892, Matroska: fix date readout if before the millennium

New in MediaInfoXP 2.45 (Apr 7, 2023)

  • DTS: Detection of IMAX Enhanced
  • MOV/MP4: Add HDR Vivid format support
  • HEVC: Add HDR Vivid format support
  • MXF/PCM: detect silent tracks (full parsing only)
  • Monkey's Audio: support of 32-bit files, show version
  • MP4 audioProfileLevelIndication: add Low Delay AAC v2 Profile
  • MP4/MOV: support of FLAC
  • MOV/MP4: support of TTML with images
  • MPEG-7: 3 modes (strict, relaxed, extended)
  • MPEG-7: more sub-termIDs (AudioPresentationCS)
  • MPEG-7: Add more PublicIdentifiers
  • MPEG-7: more sub-termIDs (MP4, WAV, AVC, ProRes)
  • AVI/WAV: display of the kind of fmt chunk
  • AVC: detection of more profiles
  • ChannelLayout: difference between M (Mono) and C (Center, part of multichannel content)
  • AC-3: detection of channel layout also for encrypted content
  • AC-4 and MPEG-H 3D Audio: Merged channel layout (all sub-streams together)
  • DTS: Detection of real bit depth e.g. 20 instead of only byte aligned bit depth (16 or 24)
  • FLAC: support of BWF in Vorbis comments
  • N19/STL: codepage, subtitle count, max line per subtitle, more metadata
  • ISAN: detection of descriptions referencing an ISAN
  • AAC: detection of eSBR (and fix of random wrong PS detection)
  • Extract of time codes, XML format, currently only for for MXF
  • MP4/MOV: fix freezes with some unknown udta atoms
  • FLV: fix duration of 0 with some buggy files
  • AVC: fix PTS of last frame
  • FFV1: fix potential crash with malformed files
  • AV1: add HDR format line and fix HDR values
  • AAC and WAV: fix of channel layout display for 5 front channels
  • AC-4: Tl/Tr mapped to to Tsl/Tsr
  • FLAC: fix sampling count
  • ID3v2: fix Genre not showing ID 0 (Blues)
  • MPEG-7: VBR fix
  • JSON/XML: Remove minus sign from element names
  • Normalization of date/time in report

New in MediaInfoXP 2.44 (Dec 30, 2022)

  • WebVTT: more information (duration, start/end timestamp, count of lines...)
  • MP4/MOV: support of FLAC
  • MP4/MOV: support of LanguageIETF
  • ProRes: parse FFmpeg glbl atom for getting color range
  • AVI/WAV: detection of character set
  • WAV: display MD5 of raw content
  • FLAC: display MD5 of unencoded content
  • USAC: trace of UsacFrame() up to after preroll
  • MOV/MP4: option for parsing only the header, no parsing of any frame
  • MXF: option for parsing only the header, no parsing of any frame
  • MXF: quicker parsing when fast parsing is requested
  • I662, WAV: fix false-positive detection of DTS in PCM
  • I1637, MPEG-Audio: proper support of Helix MP3 encoder detection and encoder settings
  • I661, MXF: fix UKDPP FpaPass value sometimes not outputted
  • S1182, Teletext subtitle: prioritize subtitle metadata other overs
  • Matroska: Better handling in case of buggy AVC stream
  • 22.2 audio: Fix name of 1 channel (Tll --> Tsl)
  • AAC: fix wrong parsing of some bitstreams
  • Fix crash with stdin input and ctrl-c
  • Fix memory leak in JSON output

New in MediaInfoXP 2.43 (Oct 8, 2022)

  • Italian language update
  • USAC: IOD and sampling rate coherency checking
  • ADM: support of nested objects and complementary objects
  • AC-4: Display of Custom downmix targets
  • IAB: Parsing of IAB bitstream and ADM-like output
  • Frame rate: store FrameRate_Num/Den also for integer values
  • MPEG-4/MOV: support of time codes >30 fps
  • MOV/MPEG-4: List of QuickTime time code discontinuities
  • Dolby Vision: add info about more profiles
  • Text streams: show stream frame rate if not same as container frame rate
  • CDP: fix rounding of frame rate
  • SCC: fix of CEA-608 FirstDisplay_Delay_Frames
  • SCC: fix TimeCode_Last
  • MPEG-4/MOV: last time code value for all kind of QuickTime time codes
  • MOV/MPEG-4: Fix frame count for NDF non-integer frame rates
  • JSON: fix invalid output in some corner cases
  • Several other parsing bug/crash fixes (thanks to fuzzing by users)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.42 (Oct 1, 2022)

  • MediaInfo updated to v22.06 (2022-06-23).

New in MediaInfoXP 2.41 (Apr 18, 2022)

  • NSV (Nullsoft Video): full featured support
  • NSV: support of proprietary StarDiva metadata (by reverse engineering)
  • HEVC: CEA-608/708 support
  • Dolby Audio Metadata: First frame of action, binaural render modes
  • Dolby Audio Metadata: 5.1 and 5.1.x downmix, 5.1 to 2.0 downmix, associated video frame rate, trim modes
  • MOV/MP4, TTML, SCC, MXF TC: time code of last frame
  • EIA-608: first displayed caption type
  • EIA-608: Maximum count of lines per event and total count of lines
  • EIA-608: duration of the visible content
  • TTML: Total count of lines
  • TTML: Maximum count of lines per event (including overlapping times)
  • TTML: Frame count, display aspect ratio
  • TTML: Support of timestamps in frames
  • SCC: Delay
  • Matroska: Encoding settings metadata support
  • MOV/MP4: Gamma metadata output
  • MPEG-4/MOV: difference between audio Center and Mono when possible
  • MP4/MOV: Support of dec3 atom in wave atom
  • MPEG-4/MOV: show both values in case of chan atom ChannelLayoutTag / ChannelDescriptions mismatch
  • MP4/MOV: Support of dec3 atom in wave atom
  • MXF: better support of AVC streams without SPS/PPS
  • ADM: display channel index of trackUIDs
  • WAV: fix freeze with 32-bit PCM
  • DPX: fix regression with DPX files more than 64 MB
  • Dolby E: fix crash with some invalid streams
  • E-AC-3: service kind was not correctly handled
  • EXR: fix of bad handling of files with long names in attributes
  • TTML: correct handling of 29.97 DF time codes
  • AV1: fix of the parsing of some streams, especially the ones with HDR metadata
  • WebVTT: was not correctly handling WebVTT header with comment
  • Matroska: fix false positive detection of bad CRC32
  • Several other parsing bug/crash fixes

New in MediaInfoXP 2.40 (Nov 30, 2021)

  • 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
  • MPEG-4: read too much data with some predecessor definitions
  • EBUCore: fix of fields order and types

New in MediaInfoXP 2.39.1 (Jun 6, 2021)

  • MediaInfo updated to v21.03 (2020-03-26)
  • Updated the Windows SDK used to build the application to v10.0.14393.0
  • MediaInfo Changes:
  • 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)
  • HDR: mastering max. luminance precision was wrong
  • WM: fix EncodingTime parsing
  • MOV/MP4: skip XMP huge atoms, fix
  • MPEG-TS: fix inverted supplementary_audio_descriptor mix_type values
  • AAC: fix File_Aac::is_intensity according to ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009
  • I1353, MP4: Skip user data Xtra and free atoms
  • FFV1: fix crash with some bitstreams parsing
  • TIFF: fix division by 0
  • RF64: fix the WAV malformed chunk size test
  • macOS 10.9/10.10: fix crash at startup
  • This is the last version compatible with Windows XP, macOS 10.5-10.9, RHEL/CentOS 6

New in MediaInfoXP 2.38 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • 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
  • WAV: more precise sample count
  • SMPTE ST 337: catch of streams starting later than usual (probing increased from 4 to 16 PCM "frames")
  • PNG: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
  • MXF: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
  • AVI: detection of additional alpha plane in color space
  • MPEG Audio: was wrongly flagging Xing info tag as CBR
  • VorbisTag: does not skip DISCID
  • Miscellaneous bug/crash fixes

New in MediaInfoXP 2.37 (Aug 30, 2020)

  • What's new:
  • MediaInfo updated to v20.08 (2020-08-11)
  • MediaInfo Changes:
  • 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
  • URL encoding detection fix for URL having a query part (issue with e.g. pre-signed AWS S3 URLs)
  • Don't try to seek to the end (false positive range related error with HTTP)
  • DPX: don't load the whole file in RAM
  • Opus: fix wrong channel mapping
  • Miscellaneous other bug fixes

New in MediaInfoXP 2.36.1 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • MediaInfo updated to v20.03 (2020-04-03)
  • Optionally use the MediaInfo executable from cache sub-directory

New in MediaInfoXP 2.35 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Dolby E: readout of Dolby E program description
  • MXF: Detection of Dolby Vision
  • MP4: support of Spatial Audio Metadata
  • DV: color space is explicit
  • DV: audio format settings
  • Matroska: PCM bit rate
  • MOV, MXF: Time code frame rate
  • DV: DVCAM commercial name for locked audio and PAL 4:2:0
  • MXF: Time code track name
  • USAC: frame rate was missing in case of non standard sampling rate
  • USAC: fix infinite loop with some LATM streams
  • WAV: MP3 delay should be added to BWF time reference
  • TTML: fix wrong output with standalone files
  • N19/STL: fix crash with some uncommon framerates
  • VC-3: fix sub sampling with some v2 files
  • DV: Time code frame number was wrong (divided by 2) for 50/60 fps content

New in MediaInfoXP 2.34 (Apr 27, 2019)

  • New:
  • MediaInfo updated to v19.04 (2019-04-23)
  • Changes:
  • USAC: DRC effect types, Sample peak level, True peak level, Program loudness
  • HDR: SMPTE ST 2094 App 4 (including HDR10+) support
  • HDR: move HDR10, Dolby Vision and SL-HDR meta to specific generic "HDR Format" lines
  • Matroska: SMPTE ST 2086 (HDR10) support
  • Matroska: FieldOrder support
  • HEIF image format support
  • AV1: support of AV1 in MP4, HEIF, IVF
  • MOV: Add a lot more countries to AppleStoreCountry field internal list
  • MXF: Fix memory leak when fully parsing big file with acquisition metadata
  • HEVC: more HEVC profiles (Multiview, Scalable, Screen Content...)
  • AAC: better handling of corrupted streams
  • AAC: better handling of unknown channel layouts
  • AVC in MP4: better support of corrupted streams
  • B1101, AVI: fix crash with some invalid streams
  • B1101, SMPTE ST 337: fix crash with some invalid streams
  • Matroska: chapters timestamp were not display if chapters have no name
  • MXF: Fix false positive truncated file detection when there is no Random Index Pack
  • AAC: channel layout typos (Rls instead of Lrs, Lr instead of Rb)
  • ProRes: correctly show color space if alpha plane is present
  • MPEG Audio: some VBR files use "Info" Xing header, so we ignore the difference between Info/Xing
  • I943, MPEG-4: wrong display aspect ratio in some corner cases (32-bit release only)
  • I1096, OGG: assign METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE tag to cover

New in MediaInfoXP 2.33 (Jan 28, 2019)

  • MediaInfo updated to v18.12 (2018-12-10)
  • MediaInfo Changes:
  • DCP: support of multi-reel packages
  • EBUCore: added some FFV1 related metadata
  • JPEG: better info display of CYMK files
  • Provide source of the color related metadata (container or stream) (hidden by default)
  • MXF: display more information when wrapper/essence values are detected as not same
  • MXF: ProRes profiles
  • MPEG-4: ProRes RAW support
  • MPEG-TS: add support of parsing some ETSI TS 103-433 messages
  • MPEG-2 Video: variable GOP detection fix
  • MPEG-7 export: some fields were missing due to the removal of some legacy fields
  • ADTS: Fix display of channel count for 8-channel streams
  • ID3v2: fix some date related issues
  • I298, ID3v2: fix wrong read of recording date in some cases
  • I1032, PBCore2: fix essenceFrameSize with non Video tracks
  • I1096, JPEG: fix crash with one file
  • Several other crash and memory leak fixes

New in MediaInfoXP 2.32 (Dec 9, 2018)

  • MediaInfo updated to v18.08.1 (2018-09-10)
  • Build environment upgraded to Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.9 (MSVC 14.16)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.31 (Sep 8, 2018)

  • What's new:
  • MediaInfo updated to v18.08 (2018-09-07)
  • Build environment upgraded to Visual Studio 2017 (15.8)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.30 (Apr 15, 2018)

  • MediaInfo updated to v18.03.1 (2018-03-26)
  • Build environment upgraded to Visual Studio 2017 (15.6)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.29 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • MediaInfo updated to v17.12 (2017-12-21)
  • Build environment upgraded to Visual Studio 2017 (15.5)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.28 (Nov 6, 2017)

  • MediaInfo updated to v17.10 (2017-11-02)
  • Added an option to enable XML formatted MediaInfo output

New in MediaInfoXP 2.27 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.99 (2017-09-11)
  • Build environment upgraded to Visual Studio 2017 (15.4)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.26 (May 4, 2017)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.95 (2017-05-04)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.25 (Apr 22, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.94.20170421 (2017-04-21)
  • Some improvements for "high DPI" displays
  • MediaInfo Changes
  • Version 0.7.94.20170421, 2017-04-21:
  • Fixes the E: File read error issue introduced in v0.7.94
  • Version 0.7.94, 2017-03-31:
  • VC-3: detection of embedded time code
  • VC-3: better support of stream with width 960 or 1440
  • VC-3: support of version 3 (DNxHR), including profile and level for version 1/2 (DNxHD)
  • Matroska trace feature: reduction of its size
  • MXF trace feature: reduction of its size
  • Visual Studio 2017 project files
  • M143, MXF with Acquisition Metadata: crash fixed
  • Several crash fixes

New in MediaInfoXP 2.24 (Mar 25, 2017)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.93 (2017-02-28)
  • Some improvements for "high DPI" displays
  • MediaInfo Changes:
  • Version 0.7.93, 2017-02-28:
  • Matroska: detection of native FFV1 CodecID ("V_FFV1")
  • AC-3/E-AC-3: detection of Atmos inside core streams
  • AC-3/E-AC-3: slight reorganization of metadata display for dual mono and surround
  • AC-3/E-AC-3: "complete main" and similar info moved to "Service kind" dedicated line
  • AC-3/E-AC-3: more precision about how is built a stream (e.g. "E-AC-3+Atmos / E-AC-3")
  • WTV: basic detection
  • MPEG-TS: Detection of Opus
  • URL: "URLEncode" option for saying if the input should be URL encoded or not
  • MediaTrace: for bitstreams (not bytestreams), bit offset was wrong
  • HLS: duration was sometimes wrong, reading only the first TS file duration.
  • MPEG-TS: if stream is encrypted or invalid, level was sometimes not the expected one for AVC
  • Matroska: FFV1 width/height was not initialized when Matroska track header is after CodecID
  • FFV1: fix potential crash with some buggy slice headers
  • Matroska: crash in case of big attachment and CRC32 present
  • Version 0.7.92.1, 2017-02-02:
  • Fix a performance regression in the matroska parser

New in MediaInfoXP 2.23 (Dec 22, 2016)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.91 (2016-11-30)
  • Fixed included MediaInfo binary (32-Bit) wouldn't work on processors without SSE2 support
  • Added a separate MediaInfo binary for SSE2-capable processors

New in MediaInfoXP 2.22 (Nov 6, 2016)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.90 (2016-10-31)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.21 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.88 (2016-08-30)

New in MediaInfoXP 2.20 (May 23, 2016)

  • MediaInfo updated to v0.7.85 (2016-04-29)
  • Now includes 32-Bit and 64-Bit variants of MediaInfo + added runtime "x64" detection

New in MediaInfoXP 2.18 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • MOV: AVrp CodecID support
  • Video Stored_Width/Stored_Height and Sampled_Width/Sampled_Height added
  • 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
  • MPEG-TS: Teletext and Teletext Subtitle were missing in the menu list
  • Chroma subsampling "4:4:4" was sometimes indicated for RGB, which is not useful

New in MediaInfoXP 2.16 (Jul 24, 2015)

  • FIMS: Preliminary version (not for production)
  • D-10 audio: display of real bitrate beside the encoded bitrate
  • VC-3: detection of CDP packets (608/708 captions), inside the VC-3 private data
  • AES3: generic term AES3 replaced by more precise SMPTE ST numbers (302, 331, 337)
  • NUT: basic detection
  • FFV1: more parsing of the bitstream, support of any version of FFV1 in MOV and Matroska
  • DPX: color space and frame rate
  • #B906, Matroska: duration was missing if Info block is at the end of the file
  • #B908, AC-3: bit depth removed
  • #P86, MPEG-4: moov_trak_edts_elst Atom was ignoring version of the atom
  • Dolby E: MXF channel count value was sometimes reported instead of the real channel count
  • VorbisComment: WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE_CHANNEL_MASK "0X" is accepted now
  • EBUCore: TotalProgrammeDuration was wrongly filled with IdentClockStart value
  • EBUCore: Source/Material moved from timecodeStart to timecodeTrack
  • MPEG-4: info is missing for some streams in some specific cases

New in MediaInfoXP 2.15 (May 4, 2015)

  • BPG: basic support, thanks to Kurtnoise
  • CAF: basic support of Apple Core Audio Format, sponsored by FlavorSys
  • JPEG-2000: Display of profile (Rsiz)
  • JPEG-2000: detection of XYZ colorspace (based on D-Cinema profile)
  • FFV1 in MOV: more details (version...)
  • MOV/MPEG-4: handling of clcn (little endian nclc) Color parameter type
  • P84, Matroska: Add TEXTST support to the MKV Parser, thanks to Kurtnoise
  • P85, MPEG-TS: Add TEXTST support to the MPEG-PSI Parser, thanks to Kurtnoise
  • MediaInfoDLL interface: clean up, more debug features added
  • MediaInfoDLL interface: Giant threads lock removed
  • F460, VC-3/DNxHD: detection of RGB 444 and other SMPTE ST 2019 (2014) new CIDs
  • VC-3/DNxHD: version number (HVN)
  • Clean aperture size is move from width/height to its own field
  • HEVC: tier
  • MXF: writing library and writing application fields are cleaned up
  • ProRes: support of 4444 profiles
  • CAP: detection of CAP files from Cheetah and Lambda
  • B886, XML and HTML outputs were broken
  • B902: EBU AspectRatio invalid in case of non classic numerator:denominator format
  • B758, VC-3/DNxHD: wrong color space and subsampling in case of unknown CID
  • B903, MXG: Incorrect timecode track used for AS-11 DPP MXF files
  • B904, MXF: Handling repetition of Header Metadata in MXF files
  • MXF: AFD value was wrong (displaying the complete byte, but AFD is only 4 bits of this byte)
  • DTS: some streams in Little endian were not detected
  • MPEG-4: some files were having an incorrect frame count
  • AVC: Some SCTE 128 caption streams were displayed twice
  • BMP; accepting files with file size information set to -1
  • RF64: samplesCount was not always right
  • MOV: avoid wrong parsing in case of "colr" atom with "prof" color parameter type
  • DCP/IMF: ID has now the AM/PKL CPL order in order in all cases
  • B893, MXF: Crash with Panasonic P2 3.0 files
  • DPX: time information was with native ":" character
  • Images sequence: "Delay" field is filled from the number in the name of the first file
  • FLV: some files were not having the right duration
  • DPX: Cineon files were detected as DPX Version 1

New in MediaInfoXP 2.14 (Jan 26, 2015)

  • MXF: MXF version (e.g. "1.3")
  • Option "File_IsImageSequence" for being able to skip frames in a sequence of files.
  • EBUCore: EBUCore 1.6 draft output
  • EBUCore: AS-11 to EBUCore mapping
  • EBUCore: more technicalAttributes
  • MXF Acquisition Metadata (RDD-18, EBU Tech 3349) basic support
  • EBUCore: time code tracks moved to their own "format" block
  • EBUCore: audioTrackConfiguration removed (not the expected behavior)
  • EBUCore: OverallBitRate information changed from technicalAttributeString to technicalAttributeInteger
  • PBCore: invalid output in case of time code stream
  • PBCore2: codecid changed
  • OP-47/SDP/Teletext: some streams were not detected
  • Previous version was built with SSE2 instructions, switching back to SSE instructions
  • AVC: infinite loop fix
  • AVC: trying to avoid the wrong detection of AVC in the case of invalid (e.g. encrypted) streams
  • Crash on Windows Vista and Win7 pre-SP1 and a CPU having FMA support
  • MXF: AS-11 Typo (SerieTitle changed to SeriesTitle), TotalProgrammeDuration added
  • ID3v2: support of 3-byte ID3v2.3 tags
  • CEA-608 in MPEG-4: demux PTS was wrong in case of multiple blocks in one frame
  • MOV: better Grey scale files and color palettes handling

New in MediaInfoXP 2.13 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • MediaInfo Version 0.7.71
  • AS-11 (Core, Segmentation, UK DPP items) display
  • MXF: support of TTML (SMPTE ST 2052) detection
  • MXF: option --File_Mxf_TimeCodeFromMaterialPackage for using the time code track from Material package instead of Source package (CLI/DLL only)
  • Duration in HH:MM:SS:FF format (hidden by default)
  • AVC: detection of Intra profiles
  • MXF: both Material and Source package time codes are displayed
  • MPEG-TS: more information for Teletext subtitle e.g. "For hearing impaired people"
  • Detecting sidecar XML files for captions (e.g. TTML/DFXP), option for CLI and Lib
  • AVC and HEVC: colour_range information (Limited/Full), thanks to Vittorio Giovara
  • OP-47/SDP/Teletext: detection of magazine numbers
  • MOV/MPEG-4: basic support of iTunMOVI tag
  • MOV/MPEG-4: support of track title and few other track related tags
  • MOV/MPEG-4: detection of Dolby E in a stereo track
  • AVC: using the first pic_struct as fallback for scan order if other methods fail, thanks to Smit for the idea
  • IMF: better compatibility with packages from different vendors
  • PBCore 2.0 technical metadata output option, thanks to Dave Rice
  • WMV: Time code track and value of first frame display, sponsored by AVCOM
  • MPEG Video: Open/Closed GOP status
  • HEVC: Support of Pixel Aspect Ratio in VUI, thanks to Kurtnoise
  • SMPTE ST 331: wrong channel positions
  • B872, MOV: StreamOrder field was wrong in case of chapter references
  • More coherency between the File interface and the By buffer interface
  • Matroska: wrong dection of video/audio delay in case of B-frames before the first I-frame
  • Time code striped/not striped information is moved from "Format_Settings" to "TimeCode_Striped"
  • SMPTE ST 337: infinite loop during scanning of some non ST 337 streams
  • MP4/MOV: Using less data during detection of Dolby E hidden in a PCM track
  • Matroska: some crashs after file name of attachments update
  • MXF: MXF time code track was not displayed with some compilation options (e.g. the default Windows build)
  • WMV: reviewing the frame rate detection, with e.g. report of difference of real 23.976 fps and thoritical 24.000 fps

New in MediaInfoXP 2.12 (Oct 3, 2014)

  • MediaInfo Version 0.7.70:
  • DTS Neural Audio: display of DTS Neural Audio descriptor information (matrix encoded channels count and position), sponsored by Numericable
  • FFV1: version, bit depth, color space, chroma subsampling, versions 0 to 3, sponsored by NOA Audio Solutions
  • HuffYUV: version, bit depth, color space, chroma subsampling, versions 1 to 3, sponsored by NOA Audio Solutions
  • PDF: basic detection (goal is to detect PDF/A profile)
  • HLS: support of encrypted streams (key must be in FileName.FileExt.key or provided via the library API)
  • CDP: using CDP service descriptor for the list of 708 services - [x] language information
  • MXF: showing the real bit depth ("Quantization bits"); the count of bits stored in the file is in a new field "Stored bit depth" if it differs
  • MXF: Audio "frame rate" (how PCM content is split in packets) information
  • MXF: Audio block alignment byte size (hidden by default)
  • VC-3: adding the commercial name "DNxHD" + bitrate class
  • MXF: SMPTE ST 377-4 (MXF Multichannel Audio Labeling Framework)
  • MXF: "ChannelLayoutID" new field (hidden by default) containing the MXF Channel Assignment Label
  • Wave64: Duration
  • CDP: frame rate
  • IMF: improvements (still work in progress)
  • QuickTime: ia13 CodecID
  • CDP: using ccsvcinfo_section() for service presence and language information
  • MXF/CDP: law rating (from CEA-608 XDS) information added (other containers were already supported)
  • CEA-608: Program name information
  • BMP: support of OS/2 headers
  • HLS: com.apple.streaming.transportStreamTimestamp support
  • ISM: ISMT / text (TTML) streams support
  • MXF: detection of buggy BlockAlign from some muxers, so PCM bit depth is correctly detected despite the buggy metadata
  • HEVC: library name of some encoding libraries
  • MPEG-2 Video: picture structure for interlaced content (interlaced content can have a frame structure)
  • HLS: support of some encrypted files (AES-128 with default IV and per segment), key is provided by the command line --File_Encryption_Key=(Base64 data)
  • HEVC: adding support of x265 library name and x265 encoding settings
  • ProRes: more details about ProRes in AVI or Matroska
  • DV: support of AVd1 CodecID
  • CMake: scripts improvements, thanks to Ivan Romanov
  • Matroska: file name of attachments, thanks to Marshall
  • HEVC: some streams with VUI were not parsed
  • MPEG Video: was not correctly handling 1000:1001 frame rates and NDF time codes combination during frame count computing
  • MPEG Video: was not correctly detecting the time stamp of the first frame in case of closed GOP with first frame not the I-frame
  • XDCAM: information about the MXF header presence was not provided if MOV header has a glbl atom
  • Some specific C++11 code is removed for full compatibility with older C++
  • MXF: Time codes values were buggy in case of MXF with pre-charge ("Origin" not 0)
  • MPEG-4 Visual: wrong analysis in case on video_object_layer_shape not set to regular
  • MPEG-4/MOV: trying to display the summary differently when there is a difference between container and raw stream channels count information (long term method to be discussed)
  • Non-Unicode version was not building anymore
  • DyLib: trying to have a better support of pure C compilers

New in MediaInfoXP 2.10 (Apr 28, 2014)

  • MPEG-TS: support of HEVC streams with stream_type of 36
  • EBUCore 1.5: update with support of more fields and valid against final XSD
  • Added interlaced content store method (Separated fields or interleaved fields)
  • HEVC: Better support of the different containers (including MP4/MKV/FLV)
  • #B844, Matroska: detection of covers, thanks to Max Pozdeev
  • Sequences of files: optimization of the detection of sequences with 200k- [x] files
  • Sequences of files: File_IgnoreSequenceFilesCount option for speeding up the detection of sequences
  • Sequences of files: File_IgnoreSequenceFileSize option for speeding up the detection of sequences
  • Sequences of files: detection when there is additional characters after the numbers
  • MPEG-TS: detecting sequences of files
  • ADTS: detecting sequences of files
  • MediaInfoList: removing files detected as part of a sequence
  • Arri Raw: basic detection
  • DDS (DirectDraw Surface) support
  • OpenMG (.oma) partial (Atrac3 only) support
  • WebVTT detection
  • #B841, QuickTime TFF/BFF: using now Technical Note TN2162 as the reference documentation
  • Matroska: slow parsing of some files
  • MOV/IMX: IMX was not detected when glbl atom is present

New in MediaInfoXP 2.09 (Apr 9, 2014)

  • QuickTime: new field ScanOrder_Stored, displayed when display and Stored orders are not same
  • IMF: better support of IMF files having more than 1 ressource per track
  • IMF: better support of IMF files EntryPoint and SourceDuration fields
  • MPEG-TS: EBP detection
  • Excel VBA example (32 and 64 bit), in contrib directory
  • Node.js examples added, in contrib directory
  • GXF: support of DVCPRO HD
  • GXF: Media Type is reported
  • HEVC: added support of scaling_list_data
  • HEVC: deactivated general_profile_compatibility_flag validity test
  • MPEG-4/MOV: Speed improvement, especially for full parsing of 100+ GB files.
  • File reading: Speed improvement of big files, especially for full parsing
  • Java binding: adding support of memory buffer as input, example with InputStream class
  • PTX: more files are supported
  • Ancillary data: more fomats are detected
  • EBUCore output: update, with EBUCore 1.5 support
  • MXF: detection of Sony RAW SQ (by reverse engineering, not sure)
  • F432, AVI: detection of MPEG Video with Codec Id 0x02000010
  • AVI: detection of captions inside MPEG Video
  • MPEG-4/MOV: showing non-media streams (e.g. hint/rtp tracks)
  • P81, HEVC: raw stream frame rate info, thanks to Kurtnoise
  • AIFF/Dolby E: detection duration of hidden Dolby E increased from 0.1 second to 1 second
  • B833, FLV: some (out of specs) files were no more fully detected
  • B828, HEVC/H265: parsing of final specification (vui_parameters() specs were modified)
  • B835, HEVC/H265: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
  • B838, AVC/H264: bug fixes, thanks to KP Lau
  • B831, MPEG Audio: files with MusiFile header/trailer are correctly detected
  • B836, XCode 5.1 compilation issue fixed, thanks to masterkain
  • STL: better support of non-English characters during decode
  • MXF: some properties were not displayed with OP-Atom files
  • JPEG-2000: wrong implmentation of COD parsing, with undefined behavior for some files
  • MXF: potential crash with small files
  • AAF: potential crash with small files
  • HLS: potential crash with small files
  • MXF: some video streams were wrongly detected as MPEG-2 video
  • MXF: better detection of some weird cases with interlace JPEG-2000 content
  • MXF: better support of files with more than 16 MB per frame (2.5 Gbps bit rate)
  • configure.ac: removal of problematical typos, thanks to Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
  • Files with the wrong extension: the file was sometimes fully read (very slow!)
  • AVI: Huge files (2GB+, with OpenDML) were sometimes parsed slowly
  • MOV: better display of metadata when tvsh atom is present
  • AC-3: some dependent streams ere not correctly detected

New in MediaInfoXP 2.06 (Dec 9, 2013)

  • MediaInfo v0.7.65:
  • 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
  • #B775, AVI: AVI can use negative height for raw to signal that it's coded top-down, not bottom-up
  • #B780, MPEG-TS: crash with some files having PAT/PMT change between begin and end of the file
  • #B782, PBCore 1.2: some fields were not in the right order
  • #B784, some humain readable strings were not removed when the corresponding field is removed
  • #B787, MPEG-4/QuickTime: Erratic appereance of Bitrate Mode
  • #B798: setlocale() remove from DLL
  • #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)
  • MPEG-4: wrong demux of some E-AC-3 streams
  • AAC: detection of HE-AACv2 was missing if the library is configured with fast detection
  • MPEG Video: wrong computing of duration of raw stream in case of drop frame time code
  • Automation, StreamKind type was set to integer, it is text
  • MPEG-4: was reading lot of useless bytes from disk when the raw stream format is not known
  • AVI: crash with some malformed text streams
  • Reference/playlist files were not supported from FTP (custom builds only)
  • MPEG-4/MOV: ScanOrder was using "stored" value instead of "displayed" value
  • MXF: Detection of Dolby E was not working in some cases (regression in 0.7.62)
  • MPEG-4/MOV: freeze with some files having mono 32-bit PCM