It is free software (free of charge and free access to source code: GPL or LGPL licence)
With MediaInfo you can easily get the following information:
* General: title, author, director, album, track number, date, duration...
* Video: codec, aspect, fps, bitrate...
* Audio: codec, sample rate, channels, language, bitrate...
* Text: language of subtitle
* Chapters: number of chapters, list of chapters
Following are the Video/Audio format supported by Mediainfo:
Video: MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB)...
(Codecs: DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC...)
Audio: OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF...
Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...
Installation:
Ubuntu users can install it from the MediaInfo PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shiki/mediainfoOpenSuSe:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mediainfo
OpenSuSe user can install MediaInfo - here
source:http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2010/07/135781677516987.html