How To Install mediainfo on CentOS 8

mediainfo is Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (CLI)

Introduction

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

What is `mediainfo`

MediaInfo CLI (Command Line Interface). What information can I get from MediaInfo? * General * Video * Audio * Text * Chapters DivX, XviD, H263, H.263, H264, x264, ASP, AVC, iTunes, MPEG-1, MPEG1, MPEG-2, MPEG2, MPEG-4, MPEG4, MP4, M4A, M4V, QuickTime, RealVideo, RealAudio, RA, RM, MSMPEG4v1, MSMPEG4v2, MSMPEG4v3, VOB, DVD, WMA, VMW, ASF, 3GP, 3GPP, 3GP2 What format (container) does MediaInfo support? * Video MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DVD (VOB) (Codecs H.264, AVC…) * Audio * Subtitles

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

Install mediainfo 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 mediainfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mediainfo

Install mediainfo 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 mediainfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mediainfo

How To Uninstall mediainfo on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove mediainfo

mediainfo Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/mediainfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/5ceff443fe78e080e7192d1c2e77e122ebe7e0
/usr/share/doc/mediainfo
/usr/share/doc/mediainfo/History_CLI.txt
/usr/share/doc/mediainfo/ReadMe_CLI_Linux.txt
/usr/share/licenses/mediainfo
/usr/share/licenses/mediainfo/License.html

References

mediainfo website

Summary

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