# MediaInfo: what changed from 25 to 26

- Product: MediaInfo (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo)
- Vendor: MediaArea
- Range: changelog entries numbered after v25.10 up to and including v26.05, stable releases only
- Entries below: 2 releases (newest first)
- Resolved: 25 is v25.10 and 26 is v26.05, the newest stable release of each major we track
- Carrying security changes: 0 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 0 · Removing or deprecating something: 0
- Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/compare/25...26

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## What changed (38 changes, grouped by kind)

### Added

#### v26.05 (2026-05-12)

- Windows: Add dark icon
- KDE: Add support for context menu entry on KDE 6
- iOS GUI: Add dark/tinted icons
- Android GUI: Permission request explanation for media location
- Amiga .info: Initial and complete support
- APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4
- AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF
- AV1: Support of Annex B raw streams
- JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto
- PNG: Support of animated PNG
- HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+
- IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files
- XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files

#### v26.01 (2026-02-04)

- Android dark mode rework
- More coherency and integrity checks
- MPEG-4 C2PA support
- ID3v2 support for Olympus voice recorder metadata
- Matroska block addition tracks display
- Matroska timecode label readout
- Default language string for ISO 639-2 special codes
- AVI/WAV support for WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG_HEAAC (0x1610)
- AV1 parsing of raw OBU from network
- AV1 Film Grain Synthesis usage indication
- Matroska/TimeCodeXML frame rate display

### Changed

#### v26.05 (2026-05-12)

- Update Spanish, Chinese, German translations
- Windows 11 Explorer: Optimize for ShellExt early return
- iOS GUI: Explicitly release iCloud-downloaded files
- macOS GUI: Add light/dark icon variant according to the latest macOS guidelines
- Android GUI: Improve listing performance with hundreds of files
- Android GUI: Improve colour contrast of button
- Android GUI: Slightly reducing release size

#### v26.01 (2026-02-04)

- Android backend modernization

### Fixed

#### v26.01 (2026-02-04)

- MXF crash with some 0 byte audio packets
- Matroska incoherent readout of unordered tag elements
- TimeCodeXml output lack of frame number with some MXF SDTI timecodes
- AVI/WAV crash with some invalid FourCC
- SDP false-positive detection
- CDP handling of 708 streams caught in the middle

## Release notes

### v26.05 — 26.05

- Date: 2026-05-12
- Version: v26.05
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v26.05
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v26.05
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **changed** — Update Spanish, Chinese, German translations
- **changed** — Windows 11 Explorer: Optimize for ShellExt early return
- **added** — Windows: Add dark icon
- **added** — KDE: Add support for context menu entry on KDE 6
- **changed** — iOS GUI: Explicitly release iCloud-downloaded files
- **added** — iOS GUI: Add dark/tinted icons
- **changed** — macOS GUI: Add light/dark icon variant according to the latest macOS guidelines
- **added** — Android GUI: Permission request explanation for media location
- **changed** — Android GUI: Improve listing performance with hundreds of files
- **changed** — Android GUI: Improve colour contrast of button
- **changed** — Android GUI: Slightly reducing release size
- **added** — Amiga .info: Initial and complete support
- **added** — APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4
- **added** — AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF
- **added** — AV1: Support of Annex B raw streams
- **added** — JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto
- **added** — PNG: Support of animated PNG
- **added** — HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+
- **added** — IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files
- **added** — XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files

Thanks to cjee21, bitplane, tautropfli, zigazajc007 and more for their work on this MediaInfo version!
+ Update Spanish, Chinese, German translations
+ Windows 11 Explorer: Optimize for ShellExt early return.
+ Windows: Add dark icon
+ KDE: Add support for context menu entry on KDE 6
+ iOS GUI: Explicitly release iCloud-downloaded files (feedback requested)
+ iOS GUI: Add dark/tinted icons
+ macOS GUI: Add light/dark icon variant according to the latest macOS guidelines
+ Android GUI: Permission request explanation for media location
+ Android GUI: Improve listing performance with hundreds of files
+ Android GUI: Improve colour contrast of button
+ Android GUI: Slightly reducing release size
+ Amiga .info: Initial and complete support
+ APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4
+ AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF
+ AV1: Support of Annex B (raw) streams
+ JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto
+ PNG: Support of animated PNG
+ HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+
+ IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files
+ XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files
+ HEVC: Show the precise profile for Format Range generic profile
+ Matroska: support RFC 9559 track flags (SDH, audio description, original, commentary)
+ Matroska: Map Performer, Podcast URL, Genre tags
+ MPEG-4: handle better some malformed stsd compressor names
+ MP4/MOV: handle presence or lack (heuristic) of version/flags in meta boxes
+ VorbisCom & MKV: Map ENCODER_OPTIONS from opusenc
+ APE: Read DISC and DISCSUBTITLE tag
+ WM: Read WM/SetSubTitle and WM/PartOfSet as part and part number
+ MPEG-4: Read the com.apple.iTunes:DISCSUBTITLE tag
+ Vorbis: Read the DISCSUBTITLE tag
+ Vorbis: Write disc numbers into Part/Position and Part/Position_Total
+ ID3v2: Map TSST to Part
+ MZ/PE: Identify presence of Cargo Auditable data
+ SMPTE registers: add more items
+ MZ/PE: Get Extended DLLCharacteristics / CETCOMPAT
+ MZ/PE: Extract SBAT from EFI files
+ MZ/PE: Parse resources, Optional Header and Section Headers
+ LXF: fix crashes with buggy files
+ ID3v2: fix crashes with buggy content
+ Channel splitting: fix crashes with buggy content
+ Channel grouping: fix crashes with buggy content
+ ID3v2: fix not skipping unknown character encoding
+ MPEG-4: does not parse boxes with unknown version
+ Filter C0 controls, DEL, and C1 controls
+ DLL: Fix missing const in buffer API
+ I2561, Dirac: fix freeze with some malformed content
+ I2578, Matroska: fix bad behavior with content having more then 126 tracks
+ I2557, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
+ I2506, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
+ MPEG-4 Visual: less false-positive detection
+ AAC: fix false-positive display of gain_control with corrupted frames
+ VP9: fix frame info with RGB content
+ DV DIF: fix recorded date century
+ ADM: fix potential crash

### v26.01 — 26.01

- Date: 2026-02-04
- Version: v26.01
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v26.01
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v26.01
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

- **added** — Android dark mode rework
- **changed** — Android backend modernization
- **added** — More coherency and integrity checks
- **fixed** — MXF crash with some 0 byte audio packets
- **added** — MPEG-4 C2PA support
- **added** — ID3v2 support for Olympus voice recorder metadata
- **added** — Matroska block addition tracks display
- **added** — Matroska timecode label readout
- **added** — Default language string for ISO 639-2 special codes
- **added** — AVI/WAV support for WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG_HEAAC (0x1610)
- **added** — AV1 parsing of raw OBU from network
- **added** — AV1 Film Grain Synthesis usage indication
- **added** — Matroska/TimeCodeXML frame rate display
- **fixed** — Matroska incoherent readout of unordered tag elements
- **fixed** — TimeCodeXml output lack of frame number with some MXF SDTI timecodes
- **fixed** — AVI/WAV crash with some invalid FourCC
- **fixed** — SDP false-positive detection
- **fixed** — CDP handling of 708 streams caught in the middle

+ Android: dark mode rework, thanks to cjee21
+ Android: modernize the backend, thanks to cjee21
+ More coherency/integrity checks, sponsored by Austrian Mediathek
+ MXF: fix crash with some 0 byte audio packets
+ MPEG-4: C2PA support
+ ID3v2: support of Olympus voice recorder metadata
+ Matroska: show block addition tracks
+ Matroska: add timecode label readout
+ Add default language string for ISO 639-2 special codes, thanks to cjee21
+ AVI/WAV: add support for WAVE_FORMAT_MPEG_HEAAC (0x1610)
+ AV1: Enable parsing raw OBU from network, thanks to cjee21
+ AV1: Indicate usage of Film Grain Synthesis, thanks to cjee21
+ Matroska/TimeCodeXML: add frame rate
+ Matroska: fix incoherent readout of unordered tag elements
+ TimeCodeXml output: fix lack of frame number with some MXF SDTI timecodes
+ AVI/WAV: fix crash with some invalid FourCC
+ SDP: fix false-positive detection
+ I2469, CDP: fix handling of 708 streams caught in the middle