Sacn folders to give video bitrate, anyone know of an app to do this

[Alloneword]

Right now i use an small freeware app called "Playtime" and this will allow me to scan a folder of avi files and it will give me the video bitrate of those files, which is fine but given so many files now come in mp4/mkv etc i'm looking for an app that will do that for all video formats or at least mkv/mp4.

Can anyone suggest an app to do this, i don't mind if it's freeware/shareware or i have to cough up for it, any suggestions welcome.


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[TeNSoR]

Hi! Maybe you mean this, I use it
https://www.videohelp.com/software/VideoHelp-Bitrate-calculator

[ndjamena]

Bitrate viewer is the general go to although I don't think it supports HEVC.

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Bitrate-Viewer-2

It's a GUI though and will only do one file at a time.

If your MKVs are made by MKVMerge or MakeMKV then they'll have statistics tags in them that will tell you the exact bitrate, MP4 metadata should contain enough information to determine exact bitrate even if it's not explicitly stated.

I think MediaInfo has a file passing mode that will scan the entire file gathering information about everything and I know FFProbe does too.

I think the first thing to do is to determine if the file is MKV or MP4, if it's mkv check if statistics tags exist and match the header information, if they don't exist or the headers don't match then scan the entire file using FFProbe (or MediaInfo CLI if full passing has been implemented yet).

I'm pretty sure mediainfo should be able to determine MP4 bitrate with very little effort, so just pointing MediaInfo at one should just work.

[Alloneword]

Thanks for the reply TeNSoR looking at that is seems i would have to do every file one at a time and that would take forever, I'm looking to scan the whole folder and it give me details of the video bitrate just like playtime.zip which works in on avi files

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[Alloneword]

Sorry ndjamena missed your post, ok it seems Bitrate Viewer is going to be my best option as you say just single files but it seems my best option so many thanks for your suggestion


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[_Al_]

you can have batch script put together with mediainfo and get a list of filenames and bitrates (or whatever else, mediainfo provides variety of properties), you look in here where basics are explained or litlle bit below it, you can modify your script as you want. Download that mediaifo CLI here.

Copy text, paste it into notepad, correct paths in the script for mediainfo location and temp folder, save it as My_script.BAT, run it in particular folder, where your videos are:

@echo off
SETLOCAL

set "Mediainfo=C:\tools\Mediainfo CLI\Mediainfo.exe"
set "temp_folder=C:\Temp"

if not exist "%mediainfo%" echo mediainfo path was not properly defined or weird characters in filename are present& ENDLOCAL& pause& goto :eof
if not exist "%temp_folder%" MD "%temp_folder%"
break>list.txt
for %%a in ("*.mp4","*.mkv","*.avi") do call :make_list "%%a"
ENDLOCAL&echo press any key to exit&pause>nul&exit


:make_list <filename>
"%Mediainfo%" --Inform=Video;%%BitRate%% "%~1" > "%temp_folder%\temp.tmp"
set /p bitrate=<"%temp_folder%\temp.tmp"
echo %~nx1   .......   %bitrate%
echo %~nx1   .......   %bitrate% >>list.txt
goto :eof

watch for weird characters in filenames, you are running batch script ...

[Alloneword]

Got an answer from someone who knows "Playtime" very well, all i had to do was add "mp4,mkv," to the file option and it will now read those files as well, such a simple fix i feel like a tit.

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