# Install media-info with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper Unified display of technical and tag data for audio/video. Version 26.05 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:media-info ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install media-info ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install mediainfo ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/mediainfo/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add mediainfo ``` Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mediainfo from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install mediainfo ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mediainfo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install mediainfo ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#mediainfo ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/mediainfo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S mediainfo ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: mediainfo from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install kf5-mediainfo ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kf5-mediainfo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install mediainfo ``` Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: mediainfo from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','lunacy' - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install main/mediainfo ``` Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mediainfo.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id MediaArea.MediaInfo -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: MediaArea.MediaInfo from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:media-info - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 26.05 - **Source summary:** Unified display of technical and tag data for audio/video - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** BSD-2-Clause - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-22T01:11:35Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - mediainfo (cli) - mediainfo (alias) ## Dependencies - libmediainfo - libzen ## Build dependencies - autoconf - automake - libtool - pkgconf ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 26.05 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://mediaarea.net/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage MediaInfo is MediaArea's long-running media inspection tool for reporting container, video, audio, text, chapter, and tag metadata from audiovisual files. The official project presents it as a unified display for technical and tag data, available as graphical interfaces, a command-line program, and a library. ### Project history The MediaInfo CLI history file records releases at least as far back as 2003, with early 0.4 and 0.5 versions tied to MediaInfoLib and command-line multi-file analysis. By 2005 and 2006, the changelog shows rapid expansion into MXF, RealMedia, Matroska, MPEG-4, H.264, Dirac, Musepack, TrueAudio, WavPack, DTS-HD, and broader tag parsing. MediaArea later moved the public source to GitHub; the official repository contains the CLI and GUI code for MediaInfoLib and documents the CLI, desktop GUIs, mobile GUIs, and supported architectures. The modern website continues to publish frequent releases and lists builds for Windows, macOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, Flatpak, Snap, and other targets. ### Adoption history MediaInfo became a package-manager staple because it solves a common Unix media-workflow problem: identify what is inside a file without opening a heavyweight editor or transcoder. The official site exposes both GUI and CLI editions, while the package input lists it across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, Winget, Chocolatey, and other ecosystems. Its adoption also comes from library reuse. The GitHub README states that this repository contains the CLI and GUI source for MediaInfoLib, making MediaInfo not just an end-user tool but a metadata engine used by other media applications and preservation workflows. ### How it is used Package users run `mediainfo` to print structured metadata, inspect bitstreams, compare files, or export reports as text, CSV, HTML, XML, or other supported formats. The official feature list emphasizes format coverage, multiple views, export modes, shell integration, localization, GUI use, CLI use, and library use. ### Why package nerds care MediaInfo is one of those packages that quietly anchors media automation: it is small enough to install everywhere, scriptable enough for CI and batch jobs, and format-aware enough to replace a lot of custom probing code. Its long changelog is useful to packagers because container and codec support changes frequently, especially for archival formats such as MXF, Matroska, FFV1, and modern image/video metadata. ### Timeline - 2003: MediaInfo CLI history records version 0.4.0.1 using MediaInfoLib 0.4.0.1. - 2005: Early releases add Linux compilation work, MXF detection, expanded codec names, and more container parsers. - 2014: Official MediaArea GitHub repository is created for MediaInfo. - 2026: MediaArea publishes MediaInfo 26.05 with new format support and parser fixes. ### Related projects - MediaInfo is closely tied to MediaInfoLib and to other MediaArea tools such as MediaConch, MediaTrace, QCTools, RAWcooked, and DVRescue. ### Sources - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** media-info - **Aliases:** mediainfo - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - MacPorts - mediainfo: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/mediainfo/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Debian apt - mediainfo - 25.04-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: mediainfo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files | https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - Debian apt - mediainfo-gui - 25.04-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files | https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - Nix - mediainfo: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/mediainfo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Ubuntu apt - mediainfo - 24.01.1-1build2: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediainfo from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files | https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - Ubuntu apt - mediainfo-gui - 24.01.1-1build2: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files | https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - apk - mediainfo - 26.01-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mediainfo from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Supplies technical and tag information about media files (CLI) | https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo - apk - mediainfo-gui - 26.01-r0: installed executable or alias match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Supplies technical and tag information about media files (GUI) | https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo - dnf - mediainfo - 26.05-1.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (CLI) | http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - dnf - mediainfo-gui - 26.05-1.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo-gui from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (GUI) | http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - dnf - mediainfo-qt - 26.05-1.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo-qt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (Qt GUI) | http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo - pacman - mediainfo - 26.05-1: installed executable or alias match | Arch Linux sync databases: mediainfo from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Supplies technical and tag information about media files (CLI interface) | https://mediaarea.net - zypper - kf5-mediainfo - 26.05-1.1: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kf5-mediainfo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | KF5 extension for mediainfo-gui | https://mediaarea.net - zypper - mediainfo - 26.05-1.1: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mediainfo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Audio/video file technical and tag information utility | https://mediaarea.net - zypper - mediainfo-gui - 26.05-1.1: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mediainfo-gui from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | GUI for mediainfo | https://mediaarea.net - Chocolatey - mediainfo: installed executable or alias match | Chocolatey community package catalog: mediainfo from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','lunacy' ## Related links - 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Shared terms: cli, libmediainfo, libzen, media, metadata. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/media-info.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/media-info.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph