File Information - Light Alloy Guide

# File Information

Different people interesting in file information in different ways. Some people enough to know file name, others would like to know all intel. Some people want to know everything right here right now, others would like to save it into text file. This is why Light Alloy gives you multiple ways to get necessary info and possibility to do something with it later.

## Information line

Information line display short information about file. You can enable it in Preferences \ OSD \ Information line tab.

Information line display information about file in this way:

Title.mkv
Video: 1280x720@23.976 fps (AVC)
Audio: 1/2, Russian, (AAC)

However, information line is very flexible and tweakable. You can adjust it to fit your preferences. There is a lot of tags you can add to information line:

Общие | Видео | Аудио

{ARTIST} - artist
{TITLE} - title
{FORMAT} - file type
{FILENAME} - file name
{CODECS} - video- and audio- codecs
{DURATION} - duration
{REMAINS} - remains
{POSITION} - current position
{TIME} - system time
{SIZE} - file size
{COUNT} - track count
{CURRENT} - index of current track

{VIDEOFORMAT} - codec
{VIDEOCODECID} - codec id
{VIDEOFORMATINFO} - codec info
{VIDEOFORMATPROFILE} - codec profile
{VIDEODURATION} - duration
{VIDEOWIDTH} - width
{VIDEOHEIGHT} - height
{VIDEOASPECTRATIO} - aspect ratio
{VIDEOFPS} - frames per second
{VIDEOBITRATE} - stream bitrate
{VIDEOBITRATEMODE} - bitrate mode (VBR, CBR)

{AUDIOFORMAT} - codec
{AUDIOFORMATINFO} - codec info
{AUDIOFORMATPROFILE} - codec profile
{AUDIODURATION} - stream duration
{AUDIOBITRATE} - stream bitrate
{AUDIOBITRATEMODE} - bitrate mode (VBR, CBR)
{AUDIOSAMPLERATE} - sample rate (Hz)
{AUDIOCHANNELS} - channels count
{AUDIOCHANNELSPOS} - channels position
{AUDIOLANGUAGE} - language of stream (if set)
{AUDIOSTREAM} - current stream (index)
{AUDIOSTREAMSCOUNT} - count of available streams
{AUDIOMUXINGMODE} - muxing mode used

Worth to note:

- {TITLE} - it's not file name, it's a metatag "title". But, if tag "title" is empty - you will see filename instead..
  So {TITLE}.{FORMAT} and {FILENAME} can show you different results!
- parameters from "video" and "audio", usually, refer to current playing stream.
- Besides these parameters, you can use any symbols, words and numbers, to customize the view.

## File information

If you click File information button on Light Alloy's control panel, you will this window:

You can copy to clipboard (via popup menu) very detailed information about file.

Basically, about file you can to know:

- file size and bitrate;
- whats app was used to encode file, and when it was created;
- what's audio and subtitle streams it contains;
- how much space one or another stream is take in file.

About video:

- width, height, fps;
- codec, encoding profile, bitrate.

About audio:

- stream title and language (if set);
- codec and bitrate;
- channels count, position and sample rate.

About subtitles:

- title and language (if set);
- format.

## Report

Report on playlist scan all files in playlist and put key data of those files in HTML-table.

Example of Report on playlist.

Initially there is only one template (located in LightAlloy_InstallDirectory\Report folder) for Report, but you can customize it in any way you want and create different templates (in txt or csv formats, for example).