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Port details
mediainfo Provides technical and tag information for video and audio files
26.05 multimedia on this many watch lists=12 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 26.01Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2008-04-29 21:34:58
Last Update: 2026-05-13 20:17:52
Commit Hash: 5cb3150
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License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
https://github.com/MediaArea/MediaInfo
Description:
MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. Read http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Support/Formats for supported formats.
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Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/mediainfo
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/mediainfo-26.05/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/mediainfo-26.05/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/mediainfo-26.05/BSD2CLAUSE
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • mediainfo>0:multimedia/mediainfo
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mediainfo/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/mediainfo
  • pkg install mediainfo
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: mediainfo
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1778677896 SHA256 (MediaInfo_CLI_26.05_GNU_FromSource.tar.xz) = 220e54edc92a559cf8c2b4e332eba0116f9f758b2588ea02d432d1894a569c6a SIZE (MediaInfo_CLI_26.05_GNU_FromSource.tar.xz) = 6621348
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
mediainfo
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest26.0126.0120.0925.0726.01n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly26.0126.0123.0425.0426.01n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest26.0526.0522.0925.0426.0123.04-23.04
FreeBSD:14:quarterly26.0126.01-25.0426.0123.1123.1123.11
FreeBSD:15:latest26.0526.05n/a25.04n/an/a23.1124.01.1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly26.0126.01n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest26.0126.05n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
Library dependencies:
  1. libmediainfo.so : multimedia/libmediainfo
  2. libzen.so : multimedia/libzen
This port is required by:
for Libraries

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. multimedia/universal-media-server*
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for Run
  1. misc/nnn
  2. multimedia/jellyfin
  3. multimedia/py-pymediainfo
  4. polish/napi
Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
multimedia_mediainfo
USES:
compiler:c++11-lang cpe libtool pkgconfig tar:xz
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/sunpoet/
  2. http://distcache.eu.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/sunpoet/
  3. http://distcache.us-east.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/sunpoet/
  4. http://distcache.us-west.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/sunpoet/
  5. https://mediaarea.net/download/binary/mediainfo/26.05/
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Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
0.7.29
02 Apr 2010 12:55:28
Original commit files touched by this commit		 pav search for other commits by this committer 
- Update to 0.7.29

PR:             ports/144796
Submitted by:   Jui-Nan Lin <jnlin@csie.nctu.edu.tw>
Approved by:    Samuel J. Greear <sjg@evilcode.net> (maintainer)
0.7.7.8
22 Aug 2009 00:28:34
Original commit files touched by this commit Sanity Test Failure		 amdmi3 search for other commits by this committer 
- Switch SourceForge ports to the new File Release System: categories starting
with M
0.7.7.8
01 Dec 2008 21:13:26
Original commit files touched by this commit		 miwi search for other commits by this committer 
- Update to 0.7.7.8

PR:             129082
Submitted by:   "Beat Gätzi" <beat@chruetertee.ch>
Approved by:    maintainer
0.7.6.3
29 Apr 2008 21:34:37
Original commit files touched by this commit		 miwi search for other commits by this committer 
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
Supported formats:
        Video: AVI/OGM/MKV/MPG/VOB/MP4/3GP/...
        Audio: MP3/OGG/MKA/MP4/AAC/...

WWW: http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/

PR:             ports/123196
Submitted by:   freebsd-ports at evilcode.net

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