MP-MediaInfo

MP-MediaInfo is .NET wrapper for MediaArea MediaInfo and use native packages and .

Features

• Wraps the MediaInfo library
• Provides properties for almost all information available using the MediaInfo library
• Targets .NET Framework, .NET Standard, .NET 5, .NET 6

Available packages

Framework	Package
.NET Framework 4.0
.NET Framework 4.5
.NET Standard 2.0
.NET Standard 2.1
.NET 5.0
.NET 6.0

Installation

There are 2 packages for .NET Core and .NET Framework. If your project is designed to run only on Windows and you are not using .NET Core, use the .NET Framework package. .NET Core package is designed for ASP.NET Core services only.

.NET Core

dotnet add package MediaInfo.Wrapper.Core --version 21.9.3

.NET Framework

Install-Package MediaInfo.Wrapper -Version 21.9.3

Usage

Add to usings:

using MediaInfo;

Instantiate an object of class MediaInfoWrapper, providing the full path to the media file and logger instance if it is required.

var media = new MediaInfoWrapper(mediaFileLocation);

Check successfully parsing of the parameters of the media file.

if (media.Success)
{
    ...
}

Retrieve technical and tag data from the video or audio file:

var containerFormat = media.Format;
var mediaHasVideo = media.HasVideo;
var videoBitRate = media.VideoRate;
foreach (var stream in media.AudioStreams)
{
    var codec = stream.Codec;
}

Demo application

ASP.NET Core demo application is available which shows the usage of the package, serialization and running from the docker container. Code from this demo should not be used in production code, the code is merely to demonstrate the usage of this package.

Dependencies

Make sure that the following dependencies are installed in the operating system before starting the project

• libzen
• zlib

.NET Core package supports next operating systems

Operation system	Version
MacOS	10.15 (Catalina), 11 (Big Sur)
Ubuntu	16.04, 18.04, 20.04 and 21.04
CenOS	7 and above
Fedora	32 and above
OpenSUSE	15.2 and Tumbleweed
RedHat	7 and above
Debian	9 and above
Arch Linux
Windows	7 and above
Docker	buster

MacOS

Some dependencies are available with MacPorts. To install MacPorts: https://guide.macports.org/#installing

port install zlib curl zenlib

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libzen0v5 libmms0 zlib1g zlibc libnghttp2-14 librtmp1 curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0-dev

CentOS

CentOS 7

sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install zlib curl libzen bzip2 libcurl
sudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/7/x86_64/l/libmms-0.6.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

CentOS 8

sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install zlib curl libzen bzip2 libcurl
sudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/l/libmms-0.6.4-8.el8.x86_64.rpm

Fedora

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf -y install zlib curl libzen openssl libmms

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper update -y
sudo zypper install -y zlib curl libmms0 openssl libnghttp2-14

RedHat

RedHat 7

sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install zlib curl libzen bzip2 libcurl
sudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/7/x86_64/l/libmms-0.6.4-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

RedHat 8

sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install zlib curl libzen bzip2 libcurl
sudo rpm -ivh https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/8/x86_64/l/libmms-0.6.4-8.el8.x86_64.rpm

Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libzen0v5 libmms0 openssl zlib1g zlibc libnghttp2-14 librtmp1 curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0

Windows

Windows package contains all dependencies and does not required any actions.

ArchLinux

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S libcurl-gnutls libzen libmms libssh librtmp0

Docker

.NET Core 3.1

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:3.1
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libzen0v5 libmms0 openssl zlib1g zlibc libnghttp2-14 librtmp1 curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0

.NET 5.0

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:5.0
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libzen0v5 libmms0 openssl zlib1g zlibc libnghttp2-14 librtmp1 curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0

.NET 6.0

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libzen0v5 libmms0 openssl zlib1g zlibc libnghttp2-14 librtmp1 curl libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0