pymediainfo package¶
Module contents¶
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class
pymediainfo.
MediaInfo
(xml)¶ An object containing information about a media file.
MediaInfo
objects can be created by directly calling code from libmediainfo (in this case, the library must be present on the system):>>> pymediainfo.MediaInfo.parse("/path/to/file.mp4")
Alternatively, objects may be created from MediaInfo’s XML output. XML output can be obtained using the XML output format on versions older than v17.10 and the OLDXML format on newer versions.
Using such an XML file, we can create a
MediaInfo
object:>>> with open("output.xml") as f: ... mi = pymediainfo.MediaInfo(f.read())
Parameters: xml (str) – XML output obtained from MediaInfo -
classmethod
can_parse
(library_file=None)¶ Checks whether media files can be analyzed using libmediainfo.
Return type: bool
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classmethod
parse
(filename, library_file=None)¶ Analyze a media file using libmediainfo. If libmediainfo is located in a non-standard location, the library_file parameter can be used:
>>> pymediainfo.MediaInfo.parse("tests/data/sample.mkv", ... library_file="/path/to/libmediainfo.dylib")
Parameters: - filename (str or pathlib.Path) – path to the media file which will be analyzed.
- library_file (str) – path to the libmediainfo library, this should only be used if the library cannot be auto-detected.
Return type:
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classmethod
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class
pymediainfo.
Track
(xml_dom_fragment)¶ An object associated with a media file track.
Each
Track
attribute corresponds to attributes parsed from MediaInfo’s output. All attributes are lower case. Attributes that are present several times such as Duration yield a second attribute starting with other_ which is a list of all alternative attribute values.When a non-existing attribute is accessed, None is returned.
Example:
>>> t = mi.tracks[0] >>> t <Track track_id='None', track_type='General'> >>> t.duration 3000 >>> t.to_data()["other_duration"] ['3 s 0 ms', '3 s 0 ms', '3 s 0 ms', '00:00:03.000', '00:00:03.000'] >>> type(t.non_existing) NoneType
All available attributes can be obtained by calling
to_data()
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to_data
()¶ Returns a dict representation of the track attributes.
Example:
>>> sorted(track.to_data().keys())[:3] ['codec', 'codec_extensions_usually_used', 'codec_url'] >>> t.to_data()["file_size"] 5988
Return type: dict
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