Welcome to pymediainfo’s documentation!¶
Requirements¶
This is a simple wrapper around the MediaInfo library, which you can find at https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
Using MediaInfo¶
There isn’t much to this library so instead of a lot of documentation it is probably best to just demonstrate how it works:
from pymediainfo import MediaInfo
media_info = MediaInfo.parse('my_video_file.mov')
for track in media_info.tracks:
if track.track_type == 'Video':
print track.bit_rate, track.bit_rate_mode, track.codec
# output: 46033920 CBR DV
If you already have the XML data in a string in memory (e.g. you have previously parsed the file or were sent the dump from mediainfo from someone else) you can call the constructor directly:
from pymediainfo import MediaInfo
media_info = MediaInfo(raw_xml_string)
Since the attributes on the Track objects are being dynamically added as the XML output from MediaInfo is being parsed, there isn’t a firm definition of what will be available at runtime. In order to make consuming the objects easier so that you can avoid having to use hasattr or try/except blocks, the __getattribute__ method has been overriden and will just return None when and if an attribute is referenced but doesn’t exist.
This will enable you to write consuming code like:
from pymediainfo import MediaInfo
media_info = MediaInfo.parse('my_video_file.mov')
for track in media_info.tracks:
if track.bit_rate is not None:
print "%s: %s" % (track.track_type, track.bit_rate)
else:
print """%s tracks do not have bit rate
associated with them.""" % track.track_type
Output:
General tracks do not have bit rate associated with them.
Video: 46033920
Audio: 1536000
Menu tracks do not have bit rate associated with them.
Reporting Issues / Bugs¶
Please use the issue tracker in GitHub at https://github.com/sbraz/pymediainfo/issues to report all feature requests or bug reports. Thanks!