Interrogate video files for Codec

[shawnf 8]

Hi

 

Does anyone know of a program which will Interrogate video files and output what Codec they use to a text file.

 

I want to do my media centre to find out which MKV's are still H.264 so I can convert them to H.265 without opening each one up.

 

All I am after is something like

File a       H.264

File b       H.265

File c       xxxxx

 

etc. I am not after 30 lines of meta data for each file. Or does Media browser have something?

 

Thanks

[Angelblue05 4132]

MediaInfo is a good and free software that will help you identify, however for the automation part...I have no idea  I personally use Handbrake to convert, you can queue up folders.

Edited December 9, 2014 by Angelblue05

[AdrianW 1058]

I assume you're converting to x265 to save drive space. Just make sure you use a reasonable quality setting when encoding so you don't lose too much quality.

 

I've seen files that are ridiculously small for 720p rips and the quality just suffers too much.

 

I've been re-encoding some of my stuff with a quality setting of around 21 which gives good quality results. The default setting, at least in MeGUI, is 26 I think, but that compresses too much (IMO).

[shawnf 8]

AdrianW, on 09 Dec 2014 - 3:03 PM, said:

I assume you're converting to x265 to save drive space. Just make sure you use a reasonable quality setting when encoding so you don't lose too much quality.

 

 

 

 

I do DVD's at 18 and Bluray at 20. It is nice to save space, but it is more so Media Browser can stream them back out to my devices, as it doesn't like ISO's that much.

[shawnf 8]

MediaInfo is a good and free software that will help you identify, however for the automation part...I have no idea  I personally use Handbrake to convert, you can queue up folders.

I use handbrake as well, I just need to find what I have not already done.

[shawnf 8]

Angelblue05, on 09 Dec 2014 - 12:22 PM, said:

MediaInfo is a good and free software that will help you identify, however for the automation part...I have no idea  I personally use Handbrake to convert, you can queue up folders.

I did try downloading Mediainfo, but my virus checker throws up warnings about it so I didn't bother to install it.

I might try it on my windows 10 machine to see if it is just a installer of a toolbar thing that's causing the issue.

[AdrianW 1058]

I've been playing around with a script I found in this post on doom9 forums.

 

Download the MediaInfo CLI version from here and unzip into a folder somewhere.

 

Then create a batchfile something like this:

set mi_exe=D:\Temp\MI\MediaInfo.exe
set input_folder=\\KIYONE\Video
set output_file=D:\Temp\VideoFormatList.csv

For /r "%input_folder%" %%x in ("*.mp4","*.mkv","*.avi","*.m4v","*.mpg","*.wmv","*.mov") Do (
	"%mi_exe%" --Inform="General;%%CompleteName%%,%%Video_Format_WithHint_List%%,%%Audio_Format_WithHint_List%%,%%Format_Commercial%%,%%Format_Profile%%" "%%~x">>"%output_file%"
)

Change the path on the first line to the path to where you installed mediainfo.exe

Change the path on the second line to the top folder of your video collection. (try a folder containing only a few videos first)

Change the path on the third line to where you want the output creating.

 

Save it as a file with ".bat" extension and then double click it. It should create a csv file containing the info you require for all video files below that top level folder.

 

Main issue for me is that some of my video file names contain commas, which offsets the output columns on those lines. I can't figure out how to get literal quote characters into the output to quote the filenames.

[Luke 42077]

if you just want a birds eye glance at files and codecs, the reports section has that 

[Redshirt 1487]

if you just want a birds eye glance at files and codecs, the reports section has that 

 

I had actually thought that info had been long stripped out of the reports section. But now that you've mentioned it I went back and had a look. In Chrome (Windows) several of the columns are not shown until you hit the forward arrow to go to the next page.

 

edit: IE does the same thing.

Edited December 10, 2014 by Redshirt

[Happy2Play 9780]

I had actually thought that info had been long stripped out of the reports section. But now that you've mentioned it I went back and had a look. In Chrome (Windows) several of the columns are not shown until you hit the forward arrow to go to the next page.

 

edit: IE does the same thing.

Just noticed the same thing.  When Reports is opened columns stop at runtime.  Then advancing to next page, (video, resolution, audio, subtitle, trailers, and specials) columns appear.

 

FF 34

[shawnf 8]

Luke, on 10 Dec 2014 - 11:23 AM, said:

if you just want a birds eye glance at files and codecs, the reports section has that 

Thanks, That's what I am looking for

[shawnf 8]

Hi

 

Just a follow up question.

 

Is there possibly a way to export the data from the reports into a CSV file or something simular?

Or does it exist in a database file and if so what is it called. I could probably use access to get the data out in a format which would be easier to use.

 

Could it be possibly in the future to have a "Media Type" field, for Blu Ray, DVD, Rip etc for filtering?

I have managed to buy a couple of the same titles in blu ray because I forgot I already had it in that format were I though I had it on DVD  

[Luke 42077]

you can't export reports but it's something we plan to add in the future

[shawnf 8]

Thanks.