libmediainfo-cffi 2.1.5

CFFI interface for libmediainfo

This library provides a convenient CFFI wrapper for libmediainfo, a lightweight library that displays information about video and audio files. Supported attributes here.

Quickstart

Easy enough:

from libmediainfo_cffi import MediaInfo
data = MediaInfo.read_metadata(path)

You can also pass options, e.g. if you want JSON output:

from libmediainfo_cffi import MediaInfo
data = MediaInfo.read_metadata(path, Inform='JSON')

Differences between this and pymediainfo

The main difference is that this library uses the API mode of CFFI, while pymediainfo uses the ABI mode. Libmediainfo_cffi approach is safer and faster but it’s a bit more complicated to debug, since you need to wrap the C++ mediainfo library in C to comunicate with Python.

On the other hand pymediainfo is more tested, Python only (but needs libmediainfo installed, while with this library you don’t) and supports Python 2 (while this library doesn’t and won’t) and has better crossplatform capabilities (since, again, it uses ABI mode).

Installation

pip install libmediainfo_cffi

Development

Download the source, launch make setup and start tinkering.

Note: the .cpp and .h file in the libmediainfo_cffi directory are not used directly, but read as strings and fed to CFFI. They are useful only for IDE code hinting. Don’t try to compile them with CMake, it won’t work.

Licenses

Copyright (c) 2019 Alessandro Cerruti

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

This product uses MediaInfo library, Copyright (c) 2002-2019 MediaArea.net SARL.