The Preview pane is available in all views by choosing View Show Preview from the menu bar. Or press Shift-Command (⌘)-P to quickly show or hide the Preview pane. Enhances the Preview pane in several ways:. More information, including detailed metadata, can be shown for each file. This is particularly useful when working with photos and media, because key EXIF data, like camera model and aperture value, are easy to locate.

Choose View Preview Options to control what information the Preview pane can show for the kind of file selected. Quick Actions let you easily manage or edit the selected file. With Quick Actions in, you can take actions on a file without opening an app. Quick Actions appear at the bottom of the and vary depending on the kind of file selected. Rotate an image. Mark up an image or PDF. Combine images and PDFs into a single PDF file.

Trim audio and video files To manage Quick Actions, click More, then choose Customize. MacOS Mojave includes a standard set of Quick Actions, but Quick Actions installed by third-party apps also appear here. You can even create your own Quick Actions using.

Note: When installing MediaInfo there is a recommended software bundle which you can opt out of by selecting Do not install option. Each recommended software choice may be different, like in this example it offers Spyware Terminator.

The cool thing though is they use Open Candy which opts you out of the install. Just double check to make sure you’re not installing extra crapware. Using MediaInfo The first time you run MediaInfo it will display the Preferences window.

There are various option such as language, output format, and whether or not you want MediaInfo to check for new versions. Select a file or folder to analyze by clicking on the File or Folder icons on the left of the application window or by selecting File Open from the menu.

You can also drag and drop a file directly onto the application. MediaInfo will display details of your media file. In Basic view, you’ll see basic information. Notice in the example below the video and audio codecs, along with file size, running time of the media file, and even the application used to create the video file (Writing application).

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You can switch to some of the other views by selecting View from the Menu and choosing form the dropdown list. Sheet View will present the information a bit more clearly.

You can see in the example below that the video and audio codec are listing in clearly identified columns. (AVC is often more commonly referred to H.264.) Tree View is perhaps the most detailed. You can see from the example below the codec used for this AVI file is XviD. Scrolling down even further you’ll see additional information like video and audio bit rates, frame rate, aspect ratio, and more.

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In Basic View (and also in Sheet view) you can click to find a player for your file. In this instance with an MP4 file, it took me to the download page for Quicktime.

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This is by no means the only media player for this file, but if you are stuck for how to play a media file, this will forward you to a solution that works. You can do the same thing with Video codec. Click Go to the web site of this video codec to find a download. MediaInfo is a simple but powerful tool that can be used to discover the details of a media file, or just to find a compatible codec. It works with most any video file type and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Some Mac and Linux versions, however, are currently command line only.