PyMediaInfo CLI

This is a command-line interface (CLI) for the pymediainfo library, which provides a way to extract metadata from media files.

Requirement

pymediainfo is a simple wrapper around the MediaInfo library, which you can find at https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo.

• Without the library, this package cannot parse media files, which severely limits its functionality.
• Binary wheels containing a bundled library version are provided for Windows and Mac OS X.
• Packages are available for several major Linux distributions. They depend on the library most of the time and are the preferred way to use pymediainfo on Linux unless a specific version of the package is required.

Installation

You can install this CLI using pip:

pip install pymediainfo-cli

Usage

You can use this CLI by running the pymediainfo command followed by the path to a media file:

pymediainfo-cli path/to/media/file

This will print the metadata for the media file in a human-readable format.

You can also specify various options to control the output:

• --output-format or -f: Output format (table, json)
• --general or -g: Include General tracks
• --video or -v: Include Video tracks
• --audio or -a: Include Audio tracks
• --text or -t: Include Text tracks
• --image or -i: Include Image tracks
• --other or -o: Include Other tracks
• --menu or -m: Include Menu tracks
• --parse-speed or -p: MediaInfo parse speed (0-1)
• --output-file: Write output to a file (optional)

For example, you can use the -f json to output the metadata in JSON format:

pymediainfo-cli path/to/media/file -f json

More information with:

pymediainfo-cli --help

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request.

I use Poetry to mange dependancies see: https://python-poetry.org/

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/GuiEpi/pymediainfo-cli.git

Install dependancies

poetry install

Run

poetry run pymediainfo-cli --help

Testing

poetry run pytest tests/test.py

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

This project was inspired by pymediainfo.