MediaInfo CLI tree output?

[Sakura-chan]

So I have folders with MKVs and I'd like to generate a txt with the info for each, using the "tree" display as seen in the MediaInfo GUI. For example:

General
Unique ID : 119309994897818826562412235014109439107 (0x59C244E93B6C622C49AE14294FC0A483)
Complete name : <path>\King Kong (1933).mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 21.5 GiB
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 29.5 Mb/s
Movie name : King Kong (1933)
Encoded date : UTC 2020-11-23 08:34:51
Writing application : mkvmerge v51.0.0 ('I Wish') 64-bit
Writing library : libebml v1.4.0 + libmatroska v1.6.2

Video
ID : 1
ID in the original source medium : 4113 (0x1011)
Format : VC-1
Format profile : Advanced@L3
Codec ID : V_MS/VFW/FOURCC / WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate : 28.2 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.567
Stream size : 20.5 GiB (96%)
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Audio #1
ID : 2
ID in the original source medium : 4352 (0x1100)
Format : DTS XLL
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Commercial name : DTS-HD Master Audio
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 069 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel layout : C
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 93.750 FPS (512 SPF)
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless
Stream size : 799 MiB (4%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Audio #2
ID : 3
ID in the original source medium : 4355 (0x1103)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1 h 44 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel layout : C
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 143 MiB (1%)
Title : Commentary by visual effects veterans Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, with interview excerpts of Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Text #1
ID : 4
ID in the original source medium : 4608 (0x1200)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 1 h 37 min
Bit rate : 27.0 kb/s
Count of elements : 1786
Stream size : 18.9 MiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Text #2
ID : 5
ID in the original source medium : 4609 (0x1201)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 1 h 39 min
Bit rate : 15.9 kb/s
Count of elements : 1418
Stream size : 11.3 MiB (0%)
Language : French
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Text #3
ID : 6
ID in the original source medium : 4610 (0x1202)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 1 h 38 min
Bit rate : 19.5 kb/s
Count of elements : 1536
Stream size : 13.8 MiB (0%)
Language : Spanish
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Text #4
ID : 7
ID in the original source medium : 4611 (0x1203)
Format : PGS
Muxing mode : zlib
Codec ID : S_HDMV/PGS
Codec ID/Info : Picture based subtitle format used on BDs/HD-DVDs
Duration : 1 h 38 min
Bit rate : 21.4 kb/s
Count of elements : 1540
Stream size : 15.1 MiB (0%)
Language : Portuguese
Default : No
Forced : No
Original source medium : Blu-ray

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Chapter 01
00:04:15.255 : en:Chapter 02
00:06:07.367 : en:Chapter 03
00:10:47.063 : en:Chapter 04
00:14:20.276 : en:Chapter 05
00:19:47.186 : en:Chapter 06
00:22:27.346 : en:Chapter 07
00:24:54.910 : en:Chapter 08
00:28:44.305 : en:Chapter 09
00:31:44.402 : en:Chapter 10
00:36:00.241 : en:Chapter 11
00:38:09.829 : en:Chapter 12
00:42:03.938 : en:Chapter 13
00:46:06.972 : en:Chapter 14
00:48:11.430 : en:Chapter 15
00:50:44.082 : en:Chapter 16
00:53:13.690 : en:Chapter 17
00:58:11.488 : en:Chapter 18
01:00:35.840 : en:Chapter 19
01:05:30.426 : en:Chapter 20
01:08:42.284 : en:Chapter 21
01:11:44.800 : en:Chapter 22
01:14:04.940 : en:Chapter 23
01:17:10.709 : en:Chapter 24
01:20:43.547 : en:Chapter 25
01:23:06.606 : en:Chapter 26
01:24:13.465 : en:Chapter 27
01:27:25.323 : en:Chapter 28
01:30:00.019 : en:Chapter 29
01:32:35.508 : en:Chapter 30
01:35:14.542 : en:Chapter 31
01:37:32.346 : en:Chapter 32
01:40:13.465 : en:Chapter 33
01:43:11.727 : en:Chapter 34
01:43:53.852 : en:Chapter 35

I'm trying now the CLI version with

mediainfo -f --logfile=<file.txt> <file.mkv>

and while I get some kind of "tree" it's kinda of a mess (had to make a pastebin as it's too long to post here) (https://pastebin.com/UehrR80d)

Is there some way to tell MediaInfo CLI to use the tree template? Regarding the batch I'll figure it out later, I did something like it before involving a "for" and some variable for the filenames. What I want to figure first is how to get the CLI to throw a more "friendly" output. I looked around but there's not a whole lot about MediaInfo out there.

Btw, the "--Info-Parameters" gets you an almost infinite list of parameters, but so far I've not seen something like the "tree" the GUI has.



Edit: Well, turns out removing the -f option gives you the standard tree layout. Can you believe it? I've never felt more like a moron, lol

[qyot27]

MediaInfo accepts templates, so that you can use just the fields you need from the list of Info-Parameters. Unfortunately I'm not sure if/where the one the GUI uses is stored, so you'll probably just need to find the fields you actually need.

For instance, one of the templates I've used in the past:
General;%Format%\r\n%Duration/String3%\r\n
Video;%Format%\r\n%Width%x%Height% @ %FrameRate/String%%FrameRate_Original/String%\r\n%FrameRate_Mode/String%\r\n
Audio;%Format% %Format_Version% %Format_Profile%\r\n%Channel(s)%Ch @ %SamplingRate% Hz
The result of which appears as:
>mediainfo --inform=file://c:/template2a.txt bill-and-ted-face-the-music-trailer-1_h1080p.mov
MPEG-4
00:01:17.077
AVC
1920x816 @ 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Constant
AAC
2Ch @ 44100 Hz
You can dress it up more than that in the template file.

[Sakura-chan]

Yes, thanks. I was about to make a template until it clicked. "What if I remove the -f?" And there, you get the standard MediaInfo tree. Now to put this in a batch and run it in my folders.

[qyot27]

Ah, since I never use the GUI, I assumed that it was a slightly different set of fields from the standard CLI output.