Rich media info in dolphin or a dedicated app

I don’t know which would be better, to have more info about a media file: video, picture or audio file in the file browser or in their respective apps.
AFAIK Vlc is the one popular app out there that can give this info.

I wanted to check a video files container (is it in h264/h265), but neither harune nor dolphin shares that level of info about a file when you go into properties → details in dolphin, harune straight up lacks an info panel about the currently playing file.

Am I stuck with vlc or a full blown video editor to check this info? Are there any plans to bring richer info about flies into the details pane in dolphin or a details window/list in harune?

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Well dolphin/baloo could extract that pretty easily:

I wanted to check a video files container (is it in h264/h265),

H264/H265 are codecs if I am not mistaken, not a container.

Dolphin and baloo uses this metadata extractor for videos:

Using ffmpeg and AVCodecParameters

They are a ton of codec ffmpeg does support: FFmpeg: Core functions/structures. we could detect them easily with FFmpeg: AVCodecDescriptor Struct Reference
You could even extract the pixel format: FFmpeg: libavutil/pixfmt.h File Reference

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That would be a super cool to see added, would make the best file browser even better!

That is, IF you use Baloo. If you don’t wanna use it, the “full blown” media player is your only option. Smplayer is my go to since the dawn of times.
VLC doesn’t come close imho.

FYI A first Merge request.

A couple more might be needed for the data to appear in other places than just dolphin information panel.

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