How To Install mediaconch on CentOS 8

mediaconch is Most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files (CLI)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mediaconch on CentOS 8.

What is mediaconch

MediaConch is an implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer that targets preservation-level audiovisual files (specifically Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1)). This project is maintained by MediaArea and funded by PREFORMA. This package includes the command line interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install mediaconch on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mediaconch.

Install mediaconch on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mediaconch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mediaconch

Install mediaconch on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mediaconch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mediaconch

How To Uninstall mediaconch on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the mediaconch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mediaconch

mediaconch Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/mediaconch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/fabf84cb6d665c64f7d7f4729820c629bf391d
/usr/share/doc/mediaconch
/usr/share/doc/mediaconch/History_CLI.txt
/usr/share/doc/mediaconch/ReadMe_CLI_Linux.txt
/usr/share/licenses/mediaconch
/usr/share/licenses/mediaconch/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/mediaconch/License.html

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mediaconch on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.