Media Inspector Changelog

What's new in Media Inspector 2.6

Sep 27, 2014
  • Fixed drag and drop issues under some specific OS configurations.
  • Fixed crash when external disks where plugged-in or out.
  • Bumped MediaInfo Library version.
  • Dropped compatibility with 32bits and Mac OS X 10.6
  • New Icon for better integration with current Mac OS X versions.

New in Media Inspector 2.0.1 (Nov 6, 2012)

  • Fixed most UI issues reported by several users.
  • Fixed Drag and Drop functionality.
  • Fixed "Open With..." annoyances.
  • Added new icon and graphics for retina display Macs.
  • Updated MediaInfo Library

New in Media Inspector 2.0 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • Media Inspector has been rewritten from scratch! The application now supports multiple file visualization and the interface has been improved for Mac OS X Lion users by taking advantage of the new API's. Media Inspector is also a lot faster now (specially with big video files) by leveraging Grand Central Dispatch and other multi threading technologies.

New in Media Inspector 1.3.1 (Sep 2, 2011)

  • Mac OS X Lion bug fixes.
  • Fixes an issue affecting Mac OS X Lion users which was preventing the application to correctly export text reports.

New in Media Inspector 1.3 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • Added confirmation dialog warning users when the application is about to post a file report into a public pastebin service like pastie.org.
  • Minor cosmetic fixes.
  • Fixed minor bugs to be Mac OS X Lion ready.

New in Media Inspector 1.2 (Jun 22, 2011)

  • MediaInfo Engine updated to version 0.7.44.
  • Contextual menu support for MPEG Transport Streams, and MPEG Audio/Video Files.
  • AVI: support of some corrupted files (RIFF size set to 0)
  • AC-3: support of streams with 16-byte time stamp between frames
  • MPEG-TS: detecting wrong stream registration information and skipping it
  • NTSC: accepting 483-line streams as NTSC
  • MXF: Parsing speed improvement, especially for high bitrate (>300 Mbps) streams
  • TGA file basic support
  • libmms: MMSH support (Linux/Mac only), thanks to RGB Networks
  • libcurl: HTTP header option and Time to live, thanks to RGB Networks
  • Id3v2 and MPEG-4: possibility to customize tag mapping
  • TIFF: more details
  • MXF: some specific files were not analyzed, fix sponsored by http://maxnine.com
  • LXF: random crashes

New in Media Inspector 1.1 (Apr 4, 2011)

  • Added support for the following file formats in both the contextual Finder menu and the systemwide Services menu:
  • FLV
  • MKV
  • OGG
  • OGV
  • TTA (True Audio)
  • NUV (Nuppel Video)
  • AC3
  • FLAC
  • Updated MediaInfo Engine to version 0.7.43.
  • MXF: detection of raw pictures
  • MXF: support of URL encoded locators
  • MXF: color subsampling
  • DXW format support
  • MPEG-TS: detection and display of real time PAT/PMT change improved

New in Media Inspector 0.7.17.5 (Sep 7, 2009)

  • Updated systemwide UTI ID strings to prepare upgrade path to future Media Inspector application, which will replace MediaInfo Mac.
  • Updated digital signature certificate.
  • Added systemwide MediaInfo service which is accessible from the "Services" menu at system level.
  • Added finder contextual menu item "Analyze with MediaInfo Mac".

New in Media Inspector 0.7.17.4 (Sep 5, 2009)

  • Fixes compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard".
  • Updated the MediaInfo Engine to version 0.7.17.
  • DROPPED TIGER SUPORT: If you are running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" do NOT install this version, Tiger users should use 0.7.17.3 instead.

New in Media Inspector 0.7.17.3 (Jul 4, 2009)

  • Fixes compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger".
  • Updated the MediaInfo Engine to version 0.7.17.
  • Fixed some bugs in the UI.
  • Hopefully fixed a crash in Mac OSX 10.5.8 "Snow Leopard".

New in Media Inspector 0.7.17.0 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • Updated the MediaInfo Engine to version 0.7.17.
  • Fixed some bugs in the UI.
  • Hopefully fixed a crash in Mac OSX 10.5.8 "Snow Leopard".

New in Media Inspector 0.7.7.58 (Sep 20, 2008)

  • Hopefully fixed a weird bug making the application crash in some PowerPC machines.
  • Fixed some bugs in the UI: Improved the "Save as text report behavior".
  • Improved overall usability of the Export and Open dialogs.
  • Added a preference setting for keeping the application running after the last window is closed (Seems to be the default behavior for Mac applications, several user requests for this little tweak).
  • MediaInfo Mac is Now 100% native 64 bit code for capable systems which makes it a lot faster, specially for BIG files.
  • AVS (Chinese Audio Video Standard) support.
  • AVI: Support of malformed chunks.
  • Matroska: delay between audio and video calculation (for AC-3, DTS, MPEG Audio).
  • Full Replay gain support (gain/peak, track/album) for Flac/Ogg/MP3.
  • MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT (example: stream captured by some satellite TV receivers) support.
  • MPEG-TS: Service info (name, provider, channel number) for both DVB and ATSC tags.
  • Dot and thousand separator localized.
  • Matroska: Handling of audio Delay.
  • DV: Crash with floating point exception on some files.
  • BDAV: Some QuickTime files misidentified as BDAV.
  • MPEG Video: Some raw files with high bitrate were not detected.
  • Id3v2: Crash with some malformed Id3v2 fields.
  • Id3v2: Problem when parsing big (>1M) Id3v2 tags, file was no more detected.
  • WMA/WMV: there was textual info (Linux/Mac only).
  • Video, Resolution/bits per pixel was sometimes per color entity, sometimes per pixel, now always per pixel.
  • MPEG Video, the "Component" video standard was not detected.
  • AVI: Delay of interleaves (example: "64 ms (1.53 video frames)").
  • AVI: Report if the audio frames are split across or aligned on.
  • MPEG-Video (raw): handling of "not started at the beginning" time_code.
  • MPEG-PS: Trying to prevent errors with time code reset in the stream.
  • AVC: Trying to detect raw AVC streams without SPS/PPS.
  • AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of ADTS stream for more info about AAC.
  • AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of IOD based stream for more info about AAC.
  • MPEG-TS: better detection of PCR time code.
  • AAC: specifying the muxing mode (ADIF, ADTS or LATM).
  • MPEG-TS: Detection of scrambled streams.
  • AVi, Identify ODML files.
  • AC-3/DTS/AAC: Added another Channel configuration string (example: "3/2.1") in advanced mode.
  • Added proportion of each stream in the file (example: "500 MiB (90%)").
  • Handling of multiple programs in one PMT PID.
  • Handling of streams in multiple programs.
  • FLV: detection of AVC and AAC.
  • Never-ending 100% CPU if input file doesn't exist.
  • MPEG Video: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown.
  • VC-1: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown.
  • AVC: Detection of MBAFF.
  • MPEG-4 files: More info (profile, format settings, encoder name, x264 settings) for some well-known stream formats.
  • MPEG-4 files: Better handling of not common formats (ALS, PNG, AC-3, DTS... in .mp4).
  • Bluray: detection of subtitles.
  • Additional formats detected: Module, Extended module, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3.
  • mp4: some specific iTunes atoms were not correctly parsed.
  • AC-3 TrueHD in bluray detection (even if the stream is splitted in 2 sub-streams).
  • Original framerate is shown if the framerate from the video stream and the one in the container are different.
  • Bluray: Duration.
  • FLV with audio delay detection.
  • Some mono HE-AAC audio track detected as 2 channels with PS.
  • VC-1 in TS detection even if the stream_type is not declared.
  • DV (raw) files support.
  • Better support of DV in AVI container (type 1 and 2).
  • AVC: Handling of SEI which is before a SPS
  • AVC in AVI: reading more info (Profile, Cabac...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • Vorbis in AVI: reading more info (Max bitrate, tags...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • Detection of VC-1 in MPEG-TS from MainConcept encoder
  • AVI with MPEG-Audio VBR and delay: delay was incorrect
  • Pixel Aspect Ratio was sometimes inverted (1/x)
  • XviD CodecID was redirected on Koepi website, no more available, changed to official XviD webpage
  • DV in AVI: DV aspect ratio errors

New in Media Inspector 0.7.7.50 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • MediaInfo Mac is Now 100% native 64 bit code for capable systems which makes it a lot faster, specially for BIG files.
  • AVS (Chinese Audio Video Standard) support
  • AVI: Support of malformed chunks
  • Matroska: delay between audio and video calculation (for AC-3, DTS, MPEG Audio)
  • Full Replay gain support (gain/peak, track/album) for Flac/Ogg/MP3
  • MPEG-TS without PAT/PMT (example: stream captured by some satellite TV receivers) support
  • MPEG-TS: Service info (name, provider, channel number) for both DVB and ATSC tags
  • Dot and thousand separator localized
  • Matroska: Handling of audio Delay
  • DV: Crash with floating point exception on some files
  • BDAV: Some QuickTime files misidentified as BDAV
  • MPEG Video: Some raw files with high bitrate were not detected
  • Id3v2: Crash with some malformed Id3v2 fields
  • Id3v2: Problem when parsing big (>1M) Id3v2 tags, file was no more detected
  • WMA/WMV: there was textual info (Linux/Mac only)
  • Video, Resolution/bits per pixel was sometimes per color entity, sometimes per pixel, now always per pixel
  • MPEG Video, the "Component" video standard was not detected
  • AVI: Delay of interleaves (example: "64 ms (1.53 video frames)")
  • AVI: Report if the audio frames are split across or aligned on
  • MPEG-Video (raw): handling of "not started at the beginning" time_code
  • MPEG-PS: Trying to prevent errors with time code reset in the stream
  • AVC: Trying to detect raw AVC streams without SPS/PPS
  • AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of ADTS stream for more info about AAC
  • AAC in MPEG-TS: complete parsing of IOD based stream for more info about AAC
  • MPEG-TS: better detection of PCR time code
  • AAC: specifying the muxing mode (ADIF, ADTS or LATM)
  • MPEG-TS: Detection of scrambled streams
  • AVi, Identify ODML files
  • AC-3/DTS/AAC: Added another Channel configuration string (example: "3/2.1") in advanced mode
  • Added proportion of each stream in the file (example: "500 MiB (90%)")
  • Handling of multiple programs in one PMT PID
  • Handling of streams in multiple programs
  • FLV: detection of AVC and AAC
  • Never-ending 100% CPU if input file doesn't exist
  • MPEG Video: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown
  • VC-1: Detection of 2:3 and 2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:2:3 Pulldown
  • AVC: Detection of MBAFF
  • MPEG-4 files: More info (profile, format settings, encoder name, x264 settings) for some well-known stream formats
  • MPEG-4 files: Better handling of not common formats (ALS, PNG, AC-3, DTS... in .mp4)
  • Bluray: detection of subtitles
  • Additional formats detected: Module, Extended module, Impulse Tracker, Scream Tracker 3
  • mp4: some specific iTunes atoms were not correctly parsed
  • AC-3 TrueHD in bluray detection (even if the stream is splitted in 2 sub-streams)
  • Original framerate is shown if the framerate from the video stream and the one in the container are different
  • Bluray: Duration
  • FLV with audio delay detection
  • Some mono HE-AAC audio track detected as 2 channels with PS
  • VC-1 in TS detection even if the stream_type is not declared
  • DV (raw) files support
  • Better support of DV in AVI container (type 1 and 2)
  • AVC: Handling of SEI which is before a SPS
  • AVC in AVI: reading more info (Profile, Cabac...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • Vorbis in AVI: reading more info (Max bitrate, tags...) from streams created by FFMpeg
  • Detection of VC-1 in MPEG-TS from MainConcept encoder
  • AVI with MPEG-Audio VBR and delay: delay was incorrect
  • Pixel Aspect Ratio was sometimes inverted (1/x)
  • XviD CodecID was redirected on Koepi website, no more available, changed to official XviD webpage
  • DV in AVI: DV aspect ratio errors

New in Media Inspector 0.7.6.30 (May 22, 2008)

  • VC: Count of reference frames.
  • AU: Comments.
  • Some global speed improvement.
  • Id3v2: Unsynchronized frames support (v2.3 & v2.4).
  • MKV: handling of files created for streaming.
  • MPEG-4: Handling of corrupted stream size info with some PCM streams.
  • DVD video: Hebrew patch ("iw" code is mapped to Hebrew).
  • MPEG-4: better handling of bitrate mode (VBR or CBR).
  • AVI: MediaInfo reads now the framerate value from the container rather than the stream value.
  • AC3: TrueHD detection.
  • MPEG-TS (or Bluray): VC-1, AC3 and AC3 TrueHD detection.
  • AVC in MKV: all SEI userdata infos from x264/eavc in Writing library settings.
  • EVO: Better detection of duration.
  • Dirac: raw files parsing.
  • MPEG-TS: Dirac management.
  • MPEG-TS: DVB subtitles/Teletext management.
  • MPEG-4 Visual (DivX/XviD): writing library name was missing.
  • MPEG-Video: some DTS files with wrong extension were detected as MPEG-Video.
  • SWF: Compressed SWF files support is back.

New in Media Inspector 0.7.5.91 (Feb 18, 2008)

  • BugFix: Application now allows to export text report when dragging files over the application icon. Thanks to Jeff H. for reporting this.
  • New: MediaInfo Mac is now fully drag and drop compatible.
  • New: MediaInfo Mac now shows in the "Open With..." menu in the finder for the applicable audio / video file types.
  • New: Initial implementation of the "SimpleView" interface, not done yet (coming soon).