Video Metadata Viewer

Easily see what is inside a video without going through complex steps and complicated software. Simply upload your video or paste it via URL and let our Video Metadata Viewer read its available metadata, technical details, bitrate information, and keyframe timeline in seconds.

Free to use No sign-up Nothing stored
Supports: YouTube TikTok Facebook Instagram Vimeo Twitter/X Dailymotion

Drag & drop your video or click to browse

MP4 · MOV · AVI · MKV · WebM  ·  Max 50 MB  ·  read in seconds
Private & Secure JSON & CSV export Reads in seconds Free · No sign-up

What Is Video Metadata Viewer?

Our Video Metadata Viewer is a free online tool that instantly extracts the metadata of a video file. It also displays the technical information like; duration, resolution, bitrate, frame rate, timestamps, audio detailss, and other file level data in an easier to understand format. So, instead of using command line tools or searching through the complex softwares, you can use our online video metadata viewer to review the available details in one place. You can use it as Youtube metadata viewer, 

How to Use the Video Metadata Viewer?

Using our online metadata viewer is quite easy. Just do these steps to check metadata of any video:

1. Add Your Video

  • Upload the vide directly into the tool or use the paste the video URL in the designated area of the tool.

2. Choose the Timeline Option

  • Want more technical information? You can turn on “Include the bitrate and keyframe timeline” option.

3. Click “Read This Video”

  • Our YouTube Video metadata checker will process the video and generate the available metadata and technical information.

4. Review the Results

Look through the video details, stream information, bitrate data, keyframes, and other available fields.

5. Export the Report

Finally you can download the video metadata as a JSON or CSV file. That’s all.

Why Use Our Online Metadata Viewer for Videos?

No Technical Knowledge Needed

Our Youtube video metadata makes it easy for you to know what video is this. It doesn’t require you to understand complex metadata structure or use command line software. All the data is displayed in a clear and readable format.

Fast Check Metadata of Any Videos

Whether you extracted video from YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo or any other platform, our tool will quickly check metadata without any delay.

Easily View What’s Inside Your Video

It efficiently extracts the detailed information about the video, allowing you to see resolution, framerate, codec, bitrate, duration, and other available metadata.

See the Bitrate and Keyframe Timeline

You can turn on the bitrate and keyframe option provided by the metadata viewer and get more details. It will show how the bitrate changes through the video and where keyframes appear along the timeline.

Free to Use & No Sign-Up

It is completely free to use. You don’t need to create accounts. Add your video and start checking its metadata without going through a registration process.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Other viewers print the tags. This one reads them. Take a real example: a file whose track says "produced by Google Inc." but whose container says it was written by FFmpeg, with the timestamps missing and the index moved to the front. A table shows you four unrelated rows. What they actually mean, together, is that YouTube encoded the video and a download tool repackaged it — so the file is a copy, not an original. That reading is the product here, and no tag dump can give it to you.
No, and be wary of anything that claims it can. Metadata records how a file was handled, not whether what it shows is true. A pristine camera original can show a completely staged event, and a stripped, re-encoded, thrice-forwarded file can be entirely genuine. What this tool gives you is the file's handling history — which is real evidence, and is most useful alongside a reverse video search that finds where else the clip has appeared. It is a starting point for verification, never a verdict.
Some platforms write their own identifiers into every file they serve, and those survive being downloaded. TikTok, for instance, embeds its internal video id, a content hash and an AI-disclosure field. If a file passed through one of those platforms, we pull the id back out — which turns an anonymous video file into a specific, findable post. You can send it straight into a reverse video search from the results.
Every metadata tag: GPS coordinates, device make and model, serial numbers, author and copyright names, timestamps, software names and chapters. What it keeps is the rotation flag, because that one is functional rather than descriptive — strip it and the video plays sideways. The video and audio are copied across untouched, so nothing is re-encoded, no quality is lost, and the file comes back in about a second regardless of how long it is.
Because something removed it. Cameras always write one, so its absence means the file has been through a pipeline that discards metadata — which is exactly what social platforms and messaging apps do when they re-encode an upload. It is extremely common and is not on its own a sign of anything suspicious; it simply means this particular file is not the original.
No. The file is read, the report is built, and the file is deleted immediately afterwards. A cleaned copy exists only for as long as it takes to send it to you. Nothing is kept, and nothing about your video is logged beyond the fact that a request happened. See our Privacy Policy.

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Every file has a history. Read it.

Where it came from, what touched it, what it gives away — and a clean copy to share instead.

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