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Install mediainfo with Homebrew Cask

Display technical and tag data for video and audio files. Version 26.10 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install mediainfo.

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macOS

Homebrew Caskverified · 100%
brew install --cask mediainfo

local Homebrew cask metadata

overview

Package summary

Display technical and tag data for video and audio files

Commands and aliases

No executable aliases were found in the local package database.

history

Project history and usage

MediaInfo is MediaArea's cross-platform, open-source utility for presenting technical and tag metadata from audio and video files. It is available as a graphical application, command-line program, and reusable library.

Project history

MediaInfo developed as an open-source C++ project under MediaArea. The official repository preserves separate GUI and CLI histories, while MediaInfoLib supplies the underlying analysis functionality.

Adoption history

MediaInfo is distributed in GUI, command-line, and library forms and is officially offered across macOS, Windows, numerous Linux distributions, mobile platforms, and other deployment targets. That breadth has made the same inspection engine useful to desktop users, shell users, packagers, and developers embedding MediaInfoLib.

How it is used

Users open media files in the GUI or inspect them through the CLI to identify formats, codecs, durations, bit rates, stream layouts, subtitles, and embedded tags. Developers use MediaInfoLib or its SDK interfaces to add the same analysis to other applications.

Why package nerds care

MediaInfo is notable because it turns container, codec, stream, and tag inspection into a portable toolchain component. Package users can choose the GUI cask for interactive inspection, the CLI for scripts, or MediaInfoLib for integration while retaining broadly consistent metadata semantics.

Timeline

  • Project history: MediaInfo evolved into separate GUI, CLI, and library deliverables maintained by MediaArea.
  • Current era: Official packages cover desktop, mobile, Linux-distribution, container-like, and cloud-function use cases.

Related projects

  • MediaInfoLib is the reusable library beneath the MediaInfo interfaces. MediaInfoOnline provides browser-based inspection, while other MediaArea projects apply related media-analysis and preservation tooling.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mediainfo. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

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freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-11-04
manager version26.10
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfonone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:mediainfo
Version26.10
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mediainfo
Homepagehttps://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
Upstream docshttps://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
Source archivehttps://mediaarea.net/download/binary/mediainfo-gui/26.10/MediaInfo_GUI_26.10_Mac.dmg
SHA-25691b4d2018587fb5dece499c6d337549e954941247d0fdb034b2b333692d743d4
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew cask API
Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenmediainfo
Names
  • MediaInfo
Artifacts
App
1
Target
1
Zap
1
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

mediainfo 25.04-1

command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo apt install mediainfo
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 5 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mediainfo from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

mediainfo-gui 25.04-1

graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo apt install mediainfo-gui
  • Section: utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

mediainfo

nix profile install nixpkgs#mediainfo
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/mediainfo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

mediainfo 24.01.1-1build2

command-line utility for reading information from audio/video files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo apt install mediainfo
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 5 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediainfo from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

mediainfo-gui 24.01.1-1build2

graphical utility for reading information from audio/video files

https://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo apt install mediainfo-gui
  • Section: universe/utils
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

mediainfo 26.05-r0

Supplies technical and tag information about media files (CLI)

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

sudo apk add mediainfo
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mediainfo from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

mediainfo-gui 26.05-r0

Supplies technical and tag information about media files (GUI)

https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

sudo apk add mediainfo-gui
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: mediainfo-gui from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

mediainfo 26.05-2.fc45

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

http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo dnf install mediainfo
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 6 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/652278618dec9c023176a80c435a32a2c8154869fb0eb662c267a54df28d77d9-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

mediainfo-gui 26.05-2.fc45

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (GUI)

http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo dnf install mediainfo-gui
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 12 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo-gui from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/652278618dec9c023176a80c435a32a2c8154869fb0eb662c267a54df28d77d9-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

mediainfo-qt 26.05-2.fc45

Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file (Qt GUI)

http://mediaarea.net/MediaInfo

sudo dnf install mediainfo-qt
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 13 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mediainfo-qt from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/652278618dec9c023176a80c435a32a2c8154869fb0eb662c267a54df28d77d9-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

mediainfo 26.05-1

Supplies technical and tag information about media files (CLI interface)

https://mediaarea.net

sudo pacman -S mediainfo
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: mediainfo from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

kf5-mediainfo 26.05-1.3

KF5 extension for mediainfo-gui

https://mediaarea.net

sudo zypper install kf5-mediainfo
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Multimedia/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 1 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: kf5-mediainfo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d310d5a96106e1e8872a385adf98aaa23be9db5d80937a6717314e7e7f37715065c6c748ab7ccee6475d620b46979c0fe64235fc0c46988e17edf659578fcf31-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

mediainfo 26.05-1.3

Audio/video file technical and tag information utility

https://mediaarea.net

sudo zypper install mediainfo
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Multimedia/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 5 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mediainfo from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d310d5a96106e1e8872a385adf98aaa23be9db5d80937a6717314e7e7f37715065c6c748ab7ccee6475d620b46979c0fe64235fc0c46988e17edf659578fcf31-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

mediainfo-gui 26.05-1.3

GUI for mediainfo

https://mediaarea.net

sudo zypper install mediainfo-gui
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Multimedia/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: mediainfo
  • 8 dependencies
  • 5 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mediainfo-gui from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d310d5a96106e1e8872a385adf98aaa23be9db5d80937a6717314e7e7f37715065c6c748ab7ccee6475d620b46979c0fe64235fc0c46988e17edf659578fcf31-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

mediainfo

sudo port install mediainfo
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/mediainfo/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

mediainfo

choco install mediainfo
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Mediainfo
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: mediainfo from https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','master-pdf-editor'

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Same workflow

  • media-infoBoth packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: audio, data, display, mediainfo, tag.
  • mediainfo.jsBoth packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: audio, files, mediainfo, video.
  • qctoolsBoth packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: files, video.

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