libmediainfo ☆

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Description:
Shared library for mediainfo

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 25.10@0 | Tracked Since: Nov 6, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: multimedia metadata library video audio analysis

Install: brew install libmediainfo

About:
libmediainfo is a shared library that provides a unified interface for extracting technical and tag information from various video and audio file formats. It serves as the core engine for the popular MediaInfo command-line tool, enabling developers to integrate comprehensive media analysis capabilities into their own applications. The library supports a vast array of codecs and container formats, delivering detailed metadata in a structured format.

Key Features:

Supports a wide range of video and audio formats (AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, etc.)
Provides detailed technical metadata (bitrate, resolution, codec, frame rate)
Offers bindings for multiple programming languages (C++, C#, Java, Python)
Can output data in various formats (text, XML, JSON)
Fast and lightweight library

Use Cases:

Building media asset management systems that require automated metadata extraction
Developing custom transcoding pipelines that need to verify source file properties
Creating media players or editors that display detailed technical information to the user

Alternatives:

ffprobe – Part of the FFmpeg suite, it is more widely used for media processing but is heavier than libmediainfo, which is specialized solely for metadata extraction.
exiftool – Excellent for general metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) across many file types, but libmediainfo is generally superior for deep technical video and audio stream analysis.

Version History

Detected	Change	Commit
Nov 6, 2025 8:00am	VERSION_BUMP	0bdf22df
Sep 30, 2025 5:07pm	VERSION_BUMP	24228f8a
Dec 11, 2024 5:51am	VERSION_BUMP	8e0d8639
Dec 10, 2024 10:15pm	VERSION_BUMP	f2d1d8a9
Nov 9, 2024 5:11pm	VERSION_BUMP	c4721902
Nov 9, 2024 10:31am	VERSION_BUMP	c389d3d9