Software update: MediaInfo 0.7.2.0

MediaInfo is able to read out and display detailed information from various music and film formats. For example, the program can not only show ID3 tags of MP3 files, but also data such as the bitrate and length of the song. In addition, MediaInfo can also find out which codec(s) is required to be able to play a movie and export this data to, among other things, a txt and html file. Today the developers have put a new version of MediaInfo online. It concerns version number 0.7.2.0 and can be used from this page for the Windows platform. If you want to use this program on Windows 95, Windows 98 and/or Windows Me, then this patch a requirement as MediaInfo uses unicode. The changelog of version 0.7.2.0 looks like this since the release of 0.6.1.0:

Version 0.7.2.0

• AVI with DivX or XviD : encoder name, GMC/QPel/B-frames indicator if present (beta)
• AVI and WAV with MP3 : encoder name, precise version and layer number, VBR indication
• Matroska: support of anamorphic videos (right Aspect Ration even if pixel aspect ratio is not 1:1)
• AVI/WAV : support of extended wave files (20 bit per sample and more than 2 channels) and channel position
• AVI : support of Exif tag format
• AVI : more tags are supported
• Real : detect RealAudio Lossless Format
• #1454010 : v0.7.1.2 was checking updates even if the user did not want
• #1454009 : AC3, sometimes wrong AC3 playtime
• #1469423 : MP3 with cyrilic filenames, Id3 tags can be read
• #1464066 : Hang ups with raw h264 streams
• x1462647 : Quicktime files with preview image, crash
• x1445150 : crash with some malformed MusePack files (workaround, this is a the Musepack bug, not yet corrected)

Version 0.6.1.1

• Open Folder option is coming back
• File with an unknown format were detected as MP3
• Corrected hang up on Matroska files
• Corrected crash on AVI with subtitles only
• Corrected crash on some corrupted or unknown files
• Added 3GPP files support

Version 0.6.1.0

• More words are translated (or translatable, I need translators!)
• #1210433 : in WMVA, Genre
• #785349 : Added Video->FrameCount (in advanced mode only, and developers)
• #785349 : Added BitRate mode when the codec is know to be only one (AC3 is CBR, Vorbis is VBR…)
• in WMA/WMV, Tags>255
• #1210425 : bugs in MP3 (Genre, Track) (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
• #1209291 : IFO, Incorrect BitRate_Mode and Resolution (bit shifting), example 704*480
• #1209293 : Incorrect Month in General/Date (UTC stamp was 1 month earlier) (thanks to Ingo Brueckl)
• #1215142 : SamplingRate for MPEG audio streams in MPEG container was false
• #1222414 : Video BitRate for AVI is back
• #1215939 : Added a Format “MPEG x” if MPEG version can’t be detected
• #1215840 : Better version detection of MPEG Video. But still a workaround, if you know how to detect MPEG1 or 2 in a video only file, please contact me!

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