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Q: Can I process video files without reading media info?

You can disable Disable File I/O or you can pre-generate the mediainfo table ahead of time on the server-side. If you must have {vf} - {vc} as part of your format then the latter is your only option.

The only alternative to reading parts of the file is matching information from the file path instead.





EDIT:

You may also report the issue to the MediaInfo project. Reading the mediainfo table shouldn't take more than reading a few megabytes, a bit from the beginning, a bit from the end, maybe a bit from the middle.

You can use the following command to see how many bytes libmediainfo is reading to extract all the information from the file at hand: