How To Install m2vrequantiser on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install m2vrequantiser on Debian 11. m2vrequantiser is MPEG-2 streams requantization

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install m2vrequantiser on Debian 11.

What is m2vrequantiser

m2vrequantiser is:

This package provides m2vrequantiser, a tool to requantize MPEG-2 streams without recompressing. M2VRequantiser accepts raw MPEG2 video data (not VOB) from standard input and writes the recompressed frames to standard output.

m2vrequantiser represents a good replacement for tcrequant, an obsolete utility provided by some versions of the transcode suite.

There are three methods to install m2vrequantiser on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install m2vrequantiser Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install m2vrequantiser using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install m2vrequantiser

Install m2vrequantiser Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install m2vrequantiser using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install m2vrequantiser

Install m2vrequantiser Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install m2vrequantiser using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install m2vrequantiser

How To Uninstall m2vrequantiser on Debian 11

To uninstall only the m2vrequantiser package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove m2vrequantiser

Uninstall m2vrequantiser And Its Dependencies

To uninstall m2vrequantiser and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove m2vrequantiser

Remove m2vrequantiser Configurations and Data

To remove m2vrequantiser configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge m2vrequantiser

Remove m2vrequantiser configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove m2vrequantiser configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge m2vrequantiser

Dependencies

m2vrequantiser have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install m2vrequantiser package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.