# MediaInfo changelog

> Technical and tag data about a video or audio file.

- Vendor: MediaArea
- Category: Media
- Platforms: Desktop
- Official site: https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo)
- Harvested from: GitHub (MediaArea/MediaInfo)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### 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

### v25.10 — 25.10

- Date: 2025-11-06
- Version: v25.10
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v25.10
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v25.10
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ MXF: crosscheck of ADM profiles
+ MXF: experimental ARRI UL support, more video streams detected
+ TTML: better support files with SMPTE timecode and ticks instead of frame rate
+ MXF: update UL names from the MXF registry (details view)
+ AC-4: Add Bitstream level and Presentation level, fix
+ MXF: Fix infinite loop in some ARRI files
+ ADM: fix tagList related false positive conformance errors
+ WAV: fix buggy non word aligned files check with 4 GB+ files
+ I2452, PAC: skip '\0' prefix in content
+ I2451, TTML: change timecode output "format" from TTML style to classic timecode

### v25.09 — 25.09

- Date: 2025-09-30
- Version: v25.09
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v25.09
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v25.09
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ Italian, Russian translations update
+ Windows: tweak the ads height for avoiding too big ads in when the window is maximized
+ Android: Migrate to Material Design 3 (thanks to cjee21)
+ ADM: Dolby E profile for emission conformance checker
+ AAC: show when PNS is ued
+ MPEG-TS: map message_id code to the stored message character string
+ AC-4: Enhancement to Presentation Role display
+ AC-4: Add Bitstream level and Presentation level
+ MXF: support of experimental ARRI ULs
+ WavPack: fix duration for long duration
+ WAV: detection of C2PA + display of thumbnails characteristics
+ MasteringDisplay_Luminance: split Min and Max
+ Dolby Vision: Fill colour, transfer & matrix for profile 5 (thanks to cjee21)
+ JPEG: Detect lossless (thanks to cjee21)
+ MPEG-TS: update DVB descriptors and service types for NGVC and NGA (thanks to paulhiggs)
+ Reset MXF status based on footer partition (thanks to ammonriley)
+ VP9: VP9 in MP4 support (thanks to cjee21)
+ SphericalVideo: use StereoMode instead of of SourceCount
+ I2400, Fix crashes with some malformed files
+ Android GUI: fix some display issues with the billing and preference windows
+ MaxCLL/MaxFALL: value without unit in the XML/JSON output
+ Fix infinite loop in UTF8 (e.g. JavaScript) build
+ HDR: fix random crash with multiple HDR formats
+ PAC: Fix duration/timestamps
+ Spherical Video 2 support, fix BF4 support with 0.32 readout, update

### v25.07 — 25.07

- Date: 2025-07-29
- Version: v25.07
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v25.07
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v25.07
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ Update Italian translation
+ MPEG-4 : Support of Spherical Video 2
+ MPEG-4 : Spherical Video improvements
+ MPEG-4: Support of location in mdta
+ MPEG-4: Parse XMP metadata (thanks to cjee21)
+ MPEG-4: Better support of Auro-Cx 3D audio (thanks to cjee21)
+ Matroska : Improvement of Spherical Video
+ Matroska: TimecodeXML output
+ AV1: Display of HDR10+ (thanks to cjee21)
+ CAF: Improved support (thanks to cjee21)
+ APE tags: Map more tags (thanks to cjee21)
+ WavPack: Display MD5 sum of raw audio data (thanks to cjee21)
+ FLAC: Map Arranger and Lyricist (thanks to cjee21)
+ DTS: More DTS:X detection
+ PNG/HEIF: Parse ISO 21496-1 Gain map metadata (thanks to cjee21)
+ XMP: Parse Adobe/UltraHDR Gain map metadata (thanks to cjee21)
+ JPEG/TIFF: Show thumbnails information, Exif style (thanks to cjee21)
+ JPEG/TIFF/HEIF: Parse Exif (location, dates, model name...) metadata (thanks to cjee21)
+ JPEG: Show thumbnails information, MPF style (thanks to cjee21)
+ TIFF/JPEG: Parse IPTC-NAA, XMP, PSIR, PSD metadata and more (thanks to cjee21)
+ JPEG/PNG: Support of C2PA (thanks to cjee21)
+ C2PA: Parsing of thumbnails
+ JPEG: Support of GContainer with or without MPF, for more HDR related info (thanks to cjee21)
+ Model names: Map to marketing names e.g SM-S931B becomes Samsung S25 (thanks to cjee21)
+ XMP: GIMP version + improve multi CreateDate handling and more (thanks to cjee21)
+ ICC: Information from profile description (thanks to cjee21)
+ PNG: Split image size from metadata size
+ PNG: Parse metadata at the end of the file
+ DNG: Detection of DNG rather than generic TIFF (thanks to cjee21)
+ PNG: Encoded date
+ JPG: Writing library name
+ PNG: Support of MNG and JNG
+ Thumbnails: Add a dedicated image track for thumbnails and covers
+ PAC: Option for default frame rate
+ Dates: Normalize dates from different formats
+ HTML output: Display cover image (thanks to cjee21)
+ I2360, MPEG4: fix crash on HEIC files
+ H263: Fix potential bad compute of frame size
+ FFV1: Fix parsing of initial_state_delta tables leading to wrong full frame parsing
+ ADM: Don't consider comments as not permitted
+ EXR : Fix comment not displayed
+ Supported platforms: this is the last version compatible with Android 4.x

### v25.04 — 25.04

- Date: 2025-04-30
- Version: v25.04
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v25.04
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v25.04
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ MP4: Detect caption presence in the middle of the file for AVC with CEA-608 in SEI
+ MP4: Support of Spherical Video metadata
+ MP4: support of com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709
+ IAMF: Basic (name, sampling rate, audio format used) support of IAMF (raw, in MP4), thanks to cjee21
+ JPEG: read XMP metadata, thanks to cjee21
+ XMP metadata: Display photoshop:Credit, xmp:CreatorTool
+ Mach-O: Basic Mach-O (including Universal) binary support, thanks to cjee21
+ MZ: Add more archs
+ WepP: Support of WebP, thanks to bitplane
+ FLAC: Add picture information
+ FLAC: Add muxing method of images
+ DVB: Update MJD parsing for accepting dates after 2038
+ Input: Accept literal IPv6 addresses, thanks to cjee21
+ I2231, 2vuy: Bit depth
+ ADM: fix crash and wrong conformance issue report with specific files
+ MPEG-4: avoid nearly infinite loops with buggy streams
+ HEVC: fix false positive conformance issue with LHEVC SPS
+ I2248, FLAC: fix format name in case of image in metadata
+ I2240, Aspect ratio: Add display aspect ratio 9:16
+ Windows: Fix installation of plugins in custom destination
+ Windows: fix transparency issue with pinned app on Windows 10
+ Fix non-MSVC builds with AES NI enabled, thanks to cjee21

### v25.03 — 25.03

- Date: 2025-03-21
- Version: v25.03
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v25.03
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v25.03
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ Italian translation update
+ Windows shell extension: Handle .url files, thanks to cjee21
+ Windows shell extension: Option for separate instance, thanks to cjee21
+ I2218, TTML: detect IMSC Rosetta
+ MXF: support of HDR Vivid Metadata
+ AVS3 Video: support for AVS3 Video according to T/AI 109.2
+ MP4: Display of operating system and hardware e.g. Android or iOS
+ MP4: Handle loci and @xyz metadata
+ MP4: Handle more metadata
+ DAT: recording date & misc
+ 3D Audio: Enable graph also on Linux
+ macOS GUI: Fix HTML background color on macOS 11 and earlier
+ macOS GUI: Update macOS app icon to match new UI guidelines
+ iOS: prevent crash when receiving invalid event
+ iOS: Update iOS icon to match new UI guidelines
+ iOS: Open from media gallery
+ iOS: Prevent out-of-memory when parsing large file
+ Android: Fix square adaptive icon
+ Android: Update AppIcon
+ Qt GUI: several improvements for matching the current windows version, thanks to cjee21
+ I1042, Windows GUI: Fix menubar/toolbar visibility
+ I2199, MP4: fix moov meta support
+ I2213, MXF: better handling of bad LinkedTrackID in descriptors
+ I2191, PAC: fix crash with some W16 blocs
+ I2223, DVD-Video: fix crash
+ AVC: fix GOP computing sometimes half of actual GOP
+ AC3: Fix wrong read of mixlevel
+ MPEG-4: Handle correctly mett track format
+ Fix alignment of text output for CJK languages

### v24.12 — 24.12

- Date: 2024-12-10
- Version: v24.12
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v24.12
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v24.12
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ Windows: Windows Explorer context menu and tooltip on Windows 11 (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: native ARM64 library for an overall improved performance (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: implement signing of uninstaller (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: add legacy stream display option (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: ARM64X DLL is available separately
+ AVC: Chroma Subsampling Position
+ PNG: adapt cLLi/mdCv letter case due to spec draft update
+ Windows: enforce more security compilation flags (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: text output is editable again (thanks to cjee21)
+ RIFF: fix bad seek in big chunks e.g. aXML with odd size
+ ADM: fix buffer over-read
+ FFV1: MaxSliceCount was not in XML or JSON report

### v24.11 — 24.11

- Date: 2024-11-07
- Version: v24.11
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v24.11
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v24.11
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ New Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) translation
+ Update Belarusian translation
+ Windows: Full 64-bit version (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: Improved support of High DPI (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: Improved support of Dark Theme (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: Improved HTML view (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: Upgrade file open dialog (thanks to cjee21)
+ Windows: SemiBold monospaced font(thanks to cjee21)
+ I1945, PAC subtitle format support
+ I2130, EXR: support of time code and frame rate
+ MXF: Support of more flavors of ISXD, IAB, Dolby Vision Metadata
+ MXF: Support of all known ULs in MediaTrace output
+ AVC: Improved detection of AVC-Intra
+ TTML: Add Duration_Start_Command/Duration_End_Command
+ IMF: Allow XML documents larger than 16 MB
+ I2133, TTML: Fix timecode when timeBase is media
+ I2110, MXF: Fix wrong Delay field with NDF timecodes
+ I2094, MXF: Sony Real Time Metadata: fix timecode drop frame flag
+ S1194, Fix random behavior due to uninitialised value
+ MPEG-TS: Increase probing at end for getting duration
+ PNG: Fix buffer leak
+ IAB: Fix bug in IAB channel code mapping
+ HTML output: Better escape of HTML strings
+ XML output: Fix comment in comment
+ MXF: Avoid crash in mxf assets on unsupported audio
+ HEVC: Add missing parsing of some multilayer SPS elements

### v24.06 — 24.06

- Date: 2024-06-27
- Version: v24.06
- Original notes: https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo/releases/tag/v24.06
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/mediainfo/releases/v24.06
- Labels: Platforms: Desktop

+ Windows GUI: Dark/Light theme preference is saved
+ Windows GUI: Fix opening subdirectories
+ Windows GUI: Add translations for Windows GUI theme menu
+ Windows GUI: Dark mode for HTML view
+ Windows GUI: Add 608/708 captions detection options
+ Cocoa GUI: Associate with image files
+ Qt build: various fixes about the GUI
+ I1881, MXF & MOV: customizable seek pos and duration of caption probe
+ I1882, CEA-608/708: option for forcing all CC1-CC4/T1 if stream is detected
+ JPEG 2000: support of HTJ2K profile
+ JPEG 2000: readout of jp2h colr atom, more file extensions, better support of broken files
+ DAT: Support of raw Digital Audio Tape
+ Enable Control Flow Guard (CFG) and Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
+ Conformance checker: an element is indicated bigger than its upper element
+ Conformance checker: option for max count of items per check
+ Windows GUI: Fix unwanted deactivation of the ffmpeg plugin
+ I2086, MXF: StreamOrder for tracks in ANC
+ I2076, Dolby E: StreamOrder includes all underlying streams
+ I2087, MPEG-TS: general duration includes before and after PCR offsets
+ WavPack: various fixes for multichannel & DSD files
+ Supported platforms: this is the last version compatible with RHEL/CentOS 7, SLE 12, Debian 10, Mageia 8