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Description: Ruby wrapper for the mediainfo CLI. http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
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README.markdown

Mediainfo

Mediainfo is a class wrapping the mediainfo CLI.

Usage

info = Mediainfo.new "/path/to/file"

That will issue the system call to mediainfo and parse the output. From there, you can call numerous methods to get a variety of information about a file. Some attributes may be present for some files where others are not.

For a list of all possible attributes supported:

Mediainfo.supported_attributes

In addition to the stock arguments provided by parsing mediainfo output, some convenience methods and added behavior is added.

Mediainfo is inspired by RVideo::Inspector, part of the rvideo gem. The rvideo inspector is based on output from ffmpeg which is not intended to be machine parseable. I spent a little while chasing the ffmpeg development team, and decided finally that perhaps other tools were better. As such, some of the API for Mediainfo is straight from RVideo::Inspector. Some is not. Just saying.

Requirements

This library is compatible with:

MediaInfo Command line, MediaInfoLib - v0.7.11

to the extent that is documented in the tests.

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