Any new alternatives to MediaInfo or GSpot?

[Djard]

I use MediaInfo and GSpot when needing more precise info about the duration of a video track. Quite often GSpot offers more info but too frequently fails to identify frame rate (that Win File Explorer is able to identify in Properties -> Detials tab). So I use these three options. Is there a single app, like mediaInfo that does it all, like give detailed info about the duration of video (e.g. 5 min 7.508 secs)? I find detailed info valuable when using my DAW to stretch audio for sync with video and other projects.

[videobruger]

Did you try avinaptic (I know it's 9 years old but it specify video time to milliseconds)

[Djard]

I tried the portable version of AVInaptic, opened a WMV file then looked at all the features. If info about the duration of a video clip is included in AVInaptic, it is well-hidden. Moreover, on a high res. screen, the text is almost unreadable. I guess I'm stuck with using three or four for video specs. But thank you kindly for trying to led a hand.

[Selur]

an old alternative: ffprobe (doc: https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html)

[Cornucopia]

If you are using a tool to work with syncing with video, MediaInfo ought to be fine for you. Remember, video has a much coarser timebase (usu. at best 1/60th sec vs audio sampling which is at 1/48000th sec).

IOW, you don't NEED a tool to give you detailed millisecond or microsecond info about the audio if it is trying to be either in sync or out of sync with ref to the video because the nearest step size is so great compared even to the granularity of the audio samples.

Scott

[abolibibelot]

MediaInfo CLI allows to display the duration more accurately, either with the -f option which outputs the full list of available fields in all available formats, or by using a custom-made template. The option to define the accuracy of the duration should definitely be included in the GUI version.

Example of "mediainfo.exe -f [FILE]" output for a MKV file :

...
File size                                : 13812983028
File size                                : 12.9 GiB
File size                                : 13 GiB
File size                                : 13 GiB
File size                                : 12.9 GiB
File size                                : 12.86 GiB
Duration                                 : 9873888
Duration                                 : 2 h 44 min
Duration                                 : 2 h 44 min 33 s 888 ms
Duration                                 : 2 h 44 min
Duration                                 : 02:44:33.888
Duration                                 : 02:44:36;08
Duration                                 : 02:44:33.888 (02:44:36;08)
Overall bit rate                         : 11191525
Overall bit rate                         : 11.2 Mb/s
Frame rate                               : 23.976
Frame rate                               : 23.976 FPS
Frame count                              : 236736
Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-11-18 00:55:14
File creation date                       : UTC 2017-07-21 01:29:08.205
File creation date (local)               : 2017-07-21 03:29:08.205
File last modification date              : UTC 2017-07-21 01:31:13.549
File last modification date (local)      : 2017-07-21 03:31:13.549
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v5.6.0 ('Kenya Kane') built on May 27 2012 16:44:04
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v5.6.0 ('Kenya Kane') built on May 27 2012 16:44:04
Writing library                          : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Writing library                          : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
...

[Djard]

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[ConverterCrazy]

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