Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1tbbbpz/its_official_mediainfo_now_supports_matroska/

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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/ChristianM12345 on 2026-05-12 19:04:52+00:00.

This adds support for 5 new track flags to be read from MKV files:

• Hearing Impaired
• Visually Impaired
• Text Descriptions
• Original
• Commentary

MediaInfo 26.05 Release Log:

• Update Spanish, Chinese, German translations
• Windows 11 Explorer: Optimize for ShellExt early return.
• Windows: Add dark icon
• KDE: Add support for context menu entry on KDE 6
• iOS GUI: Explicitly release iCloud-downloaded files (feedback requested)
• iOS GUI: Add dark/tinted icons
• macOS GUI: Add light/dark icon variant according to the latest macOS guidelines
• Android GUI: Permission request explanation for media location
• Android GUI: Improve listing performance with hundreds of files
• Android GUI: Improve colour contrast of button
• Android GUI: Slightly reducing release size
• Amiga .info: Initial and complete support
• APV: Initial support, raw and in MP4
• AV2: Initial support, raw and in MP4/AVIF
• AV1: Support of Annex B (raw) streams
• JPEG: Support of MotionPhoto
• PNG: Support of animated PNG
• HEVC/AV1: Support of HLG+
• IAMF: Support of IAMF v2.0.0 test files
• XMP: Support new GContainer format in JPEG files
• HEVC: Show the precise profile for Format Range generic profile
• Matroska: support RFC 9559 track flags (SDH, audio description, original, commentary)
• Matroska: Map Performer, Podcast URL, Genre tags
• MPEG-4: handle better some malformed stsd compressor names
• MP4/MOV: handle presence or lack (heuristic) of version/flags in meta boxes
• VorbisCom & MKV: Map ENCODER_OPTIONS from opusenc
• APE: Read DISC and DISCSUBTITLE tag
• WM: Read WM/SetSubTitle and WM/PartOfSet as part and part number
• MPEG-4: Read the com.apple.iTunes:DISCSUBTITLE tag
• Vorbis: Read the DISCSUBTITLE tag
• Vorbis: Write disc numbers into Part/Position and Part/Position_Total
• ID3v2: Map TSST to Part
• MZ/PE: Identify presence of Cargo Auditable data
• SMPTE registers: add more items
• MZ/PE: Get Extended DLLCharacteristics / CETCOMPAT
• MZ/PE: Extract SBAT from EFI files
• MZ/PE: Parse resources, Optional Header and Section Headers
• LXF: fix crashes with buggy files
• ID3v2: fix crashes with buggy content
• Channel splitting: fix crashes with buggy content
• Channel grouping: fix crashes with buggy content
• ID3v2: fix not skipping unknown character encoding
• MPEG-4: does not parse boxes with unknown version
• Filter C0 controls, DEL, and C1 controls
• DLL: Fix missing const in buffer API
• I2561, Dirac: fix freeze with some malformed content
• I2578, Matroska: fix bad behavior with content having more then 126 tracks
• I2557, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
• I2506, Matroska: fix false positive cover detection
• MPEG-4 Visual: less false-positive detection
• AAC: fix false-positive display of gain_control with corrupted frames
• VP9: fix frame info with RGB content
• DV DIF: fix recorded date century
• ADM: fix potential crash