Mediainfo
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
MediaInfo support various codecs (DivX, XviD, MSMPEG4, ASP, H.264, AVC, OGG, MP3, WAV, RA, AC3, DTS, AAC, M4A, AU, AIFF, SRT, SSA, ASS, SAMI...) and containers (MKV, OGM, AVI, DivX, WMV, QuickTime, Real, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VOB...).
MediaInfo is very usefull as it does check file extension and filecontent, and you can see, as soon as the headers are available, if a file is really a multimedia file or if it's some sort of fake data.
There are several way to use it, one of them is to get it integrated into eMule.
To get it working with eMule and be able to see some more infos about the files you are downloading/sharing you just need to download mediainfo.dll from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86862&package_id=90614
and extract the mediainfo.dll file in the same dir as eMule.exe.
The next time you will start eMule it will be able to detect more filetypes and codecs, and will be able to show additional infos if available (like title, author, program used and such) in the in the file -> detail -> content tab.
If mediainfo is not available eMule will use some internal routines to detect codecs and tags, but those routines are very limited and works only certain types of files.
At the time of writing the current version of MediaInfo is 0.7.4.5 and works correctly with eMule.
as an example of the "power" of mediainfo here is a screenshot on how an mkv file with x264 video and ac3 audio is seen in this way WITHOUT mediainfo.dll:
and in this show how it's seen WITH mediainfo.dll:
Mediainfo is capable to deliver way more data (technical data) then what eMule can show in the content tab (only tags?), we will hope the capabilities of eMule (or others mods) will be extended ;)
