Rich media info in dolphin or a dedicated app

Brainstorm
, ,
1

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?

1 Like
2

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

2 Likes
3

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

4

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.

Screenshot_20250313_170127
Screenshot_20250313_1701271920×1080 126 KB

Screenshot_20250313_165041
Screenshot_20250313_1650411920×1080 148 KB

Screenshot_20250313_165106
Screenshot_20250313_1651061920×1080 151 KB

Screenshot_20250313_165413
Screenshot_20250313_1654131920×1080 160 KB

5

FYI A first Merge request.

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

1 Like
6

So I just now realised that what I was originally experiencing was that dolphin couldn’t extract SOME video files’s information, and I thought it was lacking entirely.

I can send a file that acts up on my dolphin/framework config.
For these kind of videos, the dimensions get reported, but they are inaccurate as well.