How To Install encodedv on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install libdv-tools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libdv-tools

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is encodedv and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install encodedv on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install encodedv on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install encodedv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdv-tools

Install encodedv on CentOS 8 using yum

Because encodedv is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install encodedv package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdv-tools

How to upgrade (update) a single package encodedv using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like encodedv in this example you should use the following command:

yum update libdv-tools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libdv-tools

How to Upgrade encodedv on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update libdv-tools

How To remove encodedv from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the encodedv package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove libdv-tools

Extra info and code examples

The Quasar DV Codec (libdv) is a software decoder for DV format video, as defined by the IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M standards. DV is the encoding format used by consumer-grade digital camcorders. This package contains sample programs for viewing (playdv), encoding (encodedv), transferring DV data (dvconnect) and insert audio into a DV stream (dubdv).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install encodedv using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the encodedv from CentOS 8.

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