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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: Nierewa on November 08, 2025, 23:24:20

Title: Show Video codec
Post by: Nierewa on November 08, 2025, 23:24:20

Hi,

I search a way to display video codec with Multi Commander.
I found a topic with a hint to mediainfo dll

https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3631.msg10652.html (https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3631.msg10652.html)

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The documentation is rather inadequate and the frontend gui is awful, but for MC only the .dll is needed.

How can I add this plugin?

Thanks  :)

Title: Re: Show Video codec
Post by: Mathias (Author) on November 11, 2025, 08:48:28

MC do not currently support getting metadata about codec from video files

If you can extract that information using MultiScript. (calling some external tool to get it or something)
Then you can create a scriptable file property and have it be shown in a column.

Title: Re: Show Video codec
Post by: Nierewa on November 13, 2025, 23:11:35

 :'( This should be implemented.

Title: Re: Show Video codec
Post by: Mathias (Author) on November 14, 2025, 06:40:02

That would require that MediaInfo code to be Including in MC , Problem is that than MC then will grow with over 200% in size. just to be able to get codec info. And that is not happening.

If you install some 3rd party tool that can show it in Windows Explorer you can use MultiScript to get the information from Windows Shell with "GetFileProp(..)"  Problem is to find what the prop name is, should be documented on the 3rd party tools website.