Installing mediainfo on debian

What is mediainfo:

Mediainfo is a quickest way to find all inner information of a video or audio. It's an open source program which helps the user to find the technical information about the media files. You can get every bit of information about the media files such as codec, resolution, channels, language, bitrate etc. It supports major popular formats of video and audio files.

 

Installing mediainfo in debian 6 32 bit vps:

Installing mediainfo in debian vps is quiet easy. All you need to execute some specific command in your preferred SSH client. If you are using 64 bit debian OS, then grab appropriate package from here http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download and install with dpkg -i command.

1. Download mediainfo and required dependencies (libmediainfo and libzen0) on your system

wget http://mediaarea.net/download/binary/mediainfo/0.7.68/mediainfo_0.7.68-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

wget http://mediaarea.net/download/binary/libmediainfo0/0.7.68/libmediainfo0_0.7.68-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

wget http://mediaarea.net/download/binary/libzen0/0.4.29/libzen0_0.4.29-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

 

2. Install the mediainfo & other downloaded packages

sudo dpkg -i libzen0_0.4.29-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

sudo dpkg -i libmediainfo0_0.7.68-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

sudo dpkg -i mediainfo_0.7.68-1_i386.Debian_6.0.deb

After that, restart your server. Mediainfo plugin is ready to use.