# Install mpegdemux with Homebrew, apt

MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer. Version 0.1.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mpegdemux.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mpegdemux
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mpegdemux
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mpegdemux
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: mpegdemux from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mpegdemux
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.5
- **Source summary:** MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer
- **Homepage:** <http://www.hampa.ch/mpegdemux/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mpegdemux (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.5
## Project history and usage

mpegdemux is a small MPEG-1/MPEG-2 system stream demultiplexer by Hampa Hug. Its documented purpose is to inspect an MPEG system stream and extract elementary streams. The Ubuntu man page describes four modes: scan for streams, list stream contents in text form, demux selected elementary streams, and remux while preserving the system-stream structure except for removed streams.

### How it is used

Its package-manager niche is an old-school command-line media utility rather than a full transcoder. Debian classifies it as a command-line utility for converting that works with audio and video, and lists similar packages such as mpgtx, vamps, libmpeg3, VLC, and streamripper. Homebrew carries it as a tiny GPL-licensed formula, useful when someone needs this specific MPEG systems-stream operation instead of a larger multimedia suite.

### Sources

- <http://www.hampa.ch/mpegdemux/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mpegdemux>
- <https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/man1/mpegdemux.1.html>
- <https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/i386/mpegdemux>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - mpegdemux - 0.1.5-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: mpegdemux from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer | http://www.hampa.ch/mpegdemux/
- Ubuntu apt - mpegdemux - 0.1.5-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mpegdemux from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer | http://www.hampa.ch/mpegdemux/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mpegdemux.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mpegdemux.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph