CLI (and Ubuntu) alternative to MediaInfo (display technical information and tags of a lot of multimedia files)

[Sven Aluoor]

Hi folks

I am using at the moment http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediainfo/
which gives output like

General
Complete name                    : /home/sven/tmp/test_dailymotion_dl.mp4
Format                           : MPEG-4
Format profile                   : Base Media
Codec ID                         : isom
File size                        : 15.8 MiB
Duration                         : 3mn 3s
Overall bit rate                 : 724 Kbps
Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-03-25 16:29:59
Writing application              : edge 1.7.3
orig                             : proxy-24.dailymotion.com
cstt                             : 1
pdur                             : 183.167
coff                             : 0.000
abit                             : 19
vbit                             : 700
pbyt                             : 16565528
cbyt                             : 16565728

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High at L3.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 5 frames
Codec ID                         : avc1
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                         : 3mn 3s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 700 Kbps
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 4:3
Frame rate mode                  : Constant
Frame rate                       : 30.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.076
Stream size                      : 15.3 MiB (97%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 112 r1834 a51816a
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 /
analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 /
mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0
/ deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=4 /
sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 /
constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 /
direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 /
keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 /
rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=700 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 /
qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 /
vbv_maxrate=800 / vbv_bufsize=4000 / ip_ratio=1.41 / aq=1:1.00 /
nal_hrd=none

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : AAC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                   : LC
Codec ID                         : 40
Duration                         : 3mn 3s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 19.0 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 1 channel
Channel positions                : Front: C
Sampling rate                    : 11.025 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 424 KiB (3%)

what alternatives can you recommend me? Should be a CLI tool and
package from Ubuntu developers (official repository).

very interesting is the output (should not missed in alternative)

Tagged date                      : UTC 2011-03-25 16:29:59
Writing application              : edge 1.7.3
orig                             : proxy-24.dailymotion.com

cheers Sven