Media Information Extractor for Java

Question

I need a media information extraction library (pure Java or JNI wrapper) that can handle common media formats. I primarily use it for video files and I need at least these information:

Video length (Runtime)
Video bitrate
Video framerate
Video format and codec
Video size (width X height)
Audio channels
Audio format
Audio bitrate and sampling rate

There are several libraries and tools around but I couldn't find for Java.

user_44523 · Answer

You don't need a framework for this stuff, for example AVI video container format has a 56 byte header containing all the relevant metadata. There's bunch of other formats on that site too, all of them seem to be quite trivial to implement.

user_204512 · Answer

Try Xuggler. Here's some Xuggler source code that queries a media file and prints out all sorts of useful meta-data.

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Media Information Extractor for Java

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