Mediainfo

Help and Support
1

Guys, I’ve installed mediainfo on my 4k+ using :

sudo apt install mediainfo

It gives me version:

MediaInfo Command line MediaInfoLib - v0.7.91

But when I try to use it:

mediainfo -f 'Argo (2012) Bluray-2160p x265.mkv'

I get no info…just a blank line.

Im probably doing something wrong, or is there a problem with this version, or some dependency I’m missing?

Any help is appreciated.
Cheers.

2

Where is the file ‘Argo (2012) Bluray-2160p x265.mkv’ located? because if it’s on a Network share then you’ll need the share to be mounted and you’ll need to pass in a full path to it.

3

Currently on the Vero mediainfo only works for files up to 2GB

4

Ive changed directory to the folder where the file resides.

5

Well that would be why then !
Cheers.

6

You can create the mediainfo-output of the affected media file on the OSMC device, if you just copy the first few megabytes of the files to a new one:

  1. login via SSH, user osmc, password osmc
  2. if not already installed: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mediainfo
  3. cdto the directory containing the video/audio material in question
  4. since mediainfoonly needs to read the header information of the file data, copy the first 4 Mbytes of the media file to a new file (the quote signs are important):
    dd if="<media file>" of=purgeme.bin bs=1024 count=4096
  5. create the mediainfo
    mediainfo -f purgeme.bin
  6. remove the created media file snippet
    rm purgeme.bin

The current mediainfo v7.91 is somewhat old, see MediaInfo

8

Thanks Jim that’s good to know.
If I build the latest one from source, do you know if it still has this >2Gb issue?

9

Unfortunately i haven’t a chance to test it; let us know.

10

Hi,

The issue is down to libzen0

Thanks Tom.

16

We are working on a new solution for MediaInfo and sample processing which should be available in the New Year.

17

That’s good to hear Sam.