Firstly, don't confuse MediaInfo with another very similar application for Mac known as MediaInfo Mac.
Both do pretty much the same job - detect which codecs you need for a video clip and give you general info on your media. Although MediaInfo Mac has a better interface, MediaInfo also handles other types of data such as documents and even audio too. The data displayed by MediaInfo includes everything from basic data such as file name, playtime, file size, to more specific details such as the codec used, bitrate, channel, sample rate and resolution and more.
You can choose whether to display the data in a tree structure, HTML or plain text (useful for pasting into help forums). However, I found that the HTML function simply didn't work. In addition, as with many of these media analysis apps, it doesn't provide any direct links to find the codecs that you are missing. Although searching on Google isn't exactly hard, it would have been useful if this had been integrated into MediaInfo.
MediaInfo is a handy way to find out what's missing in your media files or simply to obtain a full technical report of your files.
