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).