Support for MediaInfo v19

[AnthonyB]

Current build of MC v4.2.2.2 includes MediaInfo.dll v18.3.1.0
Current version of MediaInfo (https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo) is 19.9.0.0

Drop in and replace the x86 version of the v19 MediaInfo.dll doesn't work with MC v4.2.2.2

Is it possible to make MC compatible for MediaInfo v19 for forward compatibility?

[antp]

Possible, yes.
Some day I should make a new build for that then... and check what changed (as the version changed, I suppose there may be some compatibility issues).
I don't know when I'll do it though.

[AnthonyB]

Possible, yes.
Some day I should make a new build for that then... and check what changed (as the version changed, I suppose there may be some compatibility issues).
I don't know when I'll do it though.

Completely understand.

Just thought I'd flag it.

[elman]

Hi. I guess this is more pressing issue now. More and more movies are not recognized by current mediainfo version. Could it be possible to upgrade to mediainfo 20? Thanks.

[antp]

I'll try to find a few minutes for that in the next days.

[elman]

Perfect. Thanks a lot

[elman]

Hi. Any update on bringing MediaInfo up to date?

[antp]

Still on my to-do list, sorry but I haven't yet taken time for that
Time flies way too fast

[antp]

Hi,
Better late than never, here is the a exe with MediaInfo v20, replace it in the folder of a regular version for testing:
http://update.antp.be/amc/beta/amc4230b.rar
It is also made for testing some fixes described there: viewtopic.php?p=53998#p53998
So in case you encounter different behaviour with scripts compared to the stable 4.2.2 release please report them.

[Sguilly]

Tried this beta release toady on a couple of HEVC / H265 files, it is not resolving the Video Format name but is populating the Video Bitrate data kbps.

Where as the existing version resolves the Video Format name to, V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC, but on a number of these will not resolve the Video Bitrate.

edit - is also not updating the Video Format field for H264 files.

[elman]

Thanks. I tried new beta with a movie and it didn't fill any value - just like the older version.

Standalone MediaInfo 20.09 app detected everything all right. It was Matroska with AVC and DTS-HD Master Audio.

Also noticed that for some movies older version detected all fields, but newer didn't fill video format and audio format. It was Matroska with AVC and AC3.

[antp]

Weird, I wonder what could cause that
Maybe there is some new stream info that AMC is not fetching, some day I should investigate that.

[zakk]

Hi, I know a little abour programming but not building/compling on Windows. Is there any way I can help to fix AMC not being able to import information from MediaInfo new dlls ? Study some AMC source code, study how Mediainfo.dll works ? Anything I should read first

[IkE Blaster]

Hi,
possible solution (works for me) via patching MovieCatalog.exe. \0 denotes NUL character (0x00 byte).

Find (one occurrence):

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Codec/String\0

Replace with:

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Format/String

Or you can use patched exe here (on your own risk, you obviously shouldn't trust randomly posted exe files): https://amc.thez.info/MovieCatalog_423b ... format.zip


It should be a simple fix for antp.

[zakk]

I was able to detect more video and audio codecs with this patch working, thank you IkE
bitrates are still missing for AVC / AAC LC

[IkE Blaster]

Can't confirm AVC / AAC LC problem. Example, but I've tried multiple files and it just always works. I have no more ideas up to my sleeve.

[antp]

Thanks for the finding.
That string was used at two places in the code: audio & video stream.
I updated the code; if it does not find that Format/String info it falls back to the old Codec/String.
I made a new build so you can test it more "officially":
http://update.antp.be/amc/beta/amc4231b.rar
(same media info version, as when I tried to upgrade to 21.xx it does not seem to work, I guess other change than version number is required)

[zakk]

Hello, here is a Mediainfo description of a file for which Ant Movie Catalog does not detect video nor audio bitrates, even with the use a today's new file submitted by ant :

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Format                                   : Matroska
Version du format                        : Version 2
Taille du fichier                        : 885 Mio
Durée                                    : 1 h 11 min
Débit global moyen                       : 1 732 kb/s
Date d'encodage                          : UTC 2019-08-13 12:32:26
Application utilisée                     : mkvmerge v5.3.0 ('I could have danced') built on Feb  9 2012 10:38:07
Bibliothèque utilisée                    : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Vidéo
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Profil du format                         : High@L3.1
Paramètres du format                     : CABAC / 3 Ref Frames
Paramètres du format, CABAC              : Oui
Paramètres du format, RefFrames          : 3 images
Type de muxing                           : Header stripping
Identifiant du codec                     : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Durée                                    : 1 h 11 min
Débit nominal                            : 1 500 kb/s
Largeur                                  : 1 920 pixels
Hauteur                                  : 1 080 pixels
Format à l'écran                         : 4/3
Type d'images/s                          : Constant
Images par seconde                       : 29,970 (29970/1000) Im/s
Espace de couleurs                       : YUV
Sous-échantillonnage de la chrominance   : 4:2:0
Profondeur des couleurs                  : 8 bits
Type de balayage                         : Progressif
Bits/(Pixel*Image)                       : 0.024
Bibliothèque utilisée                    : x264 core 148 r2665 a01e339
Paramètres d'encodage                    : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=abr / mbtree=1 / bitrate=1500 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default                                  : Oui
Forced                                   : Non

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC LC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Identifiant du codec                     : A_AAC-2
Durée                                    : 1 h 11 min
Canaux                                   : 2 canaux
Channel layout                           : L R
Echantillonnage                          : 48,0 kHz
Images par seconde                       : 46,875 Im/s (1024 SPF)
Mode de compression                      : Avec perte
Default                                  : Oui
Forced                                   : Non

Texte #1
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : UTF-8
Identifiant du codec                     : S_TEXT/UTF8
Identifiant du codec/Info                : UTF-8 Plain Text
Langue                                   : Anglais
Default                                  : Oui
Forced                                   : Non

Texte #2
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : UTF-8
Identifiant du codec                     : S_TEXT/UTF8
Identifiant du codec/Info                : UTF-8 Plain Text
Langue                                   : Français
Default                                  : Non
Forced                                   : Non

Texte #3
ID                                       : 5
Format                                   : UTF-8
Identifiant du codec                     : S_TEXT/UTF8
Identifiant du codec/Info                : UTF-8 Plain Text
Langue                                   : Grec
Default                                  : Non
Forced                                   : Non

Texte #4
ID                                       : 6
Format                                   : UTF-8
Identifiant du codec                     : S_TEXT/UTF8
Identifiant du codec/Info                : UTF-8 Plain Text
Langue                                   : Portugais
Default                                  : Non
Forced                                   : Non

Texte #5
ID                                       : 7
Format                                   : UTF-8
Identifiant du codec                     : S_TEXT/UTF8
Identifiant du codec/Info                : UTF-8 Plain Text
Langue                                   : Espagnol
Default                                  : Non
Forced                                   : Non

AMC result :

AVC 1920x1080
AAC LC 29,970
... and that's all

[elman]

I also checked new version. It seems to work better, but still there are some movies which are not detected at all. I managed to find a movie where movie itself doesn't work but cut portion works. This is the diff:

- doesn't work
+ works

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--- General
+++ (clipboard)
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 General
-Overall bit rate                         : 6 198 kb/s
-Encoded date                             : UTC 2020-08-16 17:18:49
-Writing application                      : mkvmerge v50.0.0 ('Awakenings') 64-bit
-Writing library                          : libebml v1.4.0 + libmatroska v1.6.2
+Overall bit rate                         : 12.3 Mb/s
+Writing application                      : no_variable_data
+Writing library                          : no_variable_data
@@ -20,8 +19,8 @@
Video
-Duration                                 : 1 h 25 min
-Bit rate                                 : 5 936 kb/s
+Duration                                 : 58 s 737 ms
+Bit rate                                 : 12.0 Mb/s
@@ -31,10 +30,8 @@
-Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.332
-Stream size                              : 4.23 GiB (95%)
-Writing library                          : x264 core 161 r3048 b86ae3c
-Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.50:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=22 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=3:0.50
+Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.541
+Stream size                              : 84.3 MiB (97%)

[antp]

I've upgraded to a new verison of media info while adding another feature to the script engine:
https://forum.antp.be/phpbb3/viewtopic. ... 454#p84454
so if you're still around you could check if it works better with version 22.12 of media info, or if it would be better to revert back to 20.xx