How To Install libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdv-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libdv-tools.x86_64 is Basic tools to manipulate Digital Video streams

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libdv-tools.x86_64`

This package contains some basic programs to display and encode digital video streams. This programs uses the Quasar DV codec (libdv), a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface.

We can use yum to install libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libdv-tools.x86_64.

Install libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libdv-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdv-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libdv-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libdv-tools.x86_64

libdv-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/dubdv
/usr/bin/dvconnect
/usr/bin/encodedv
/usr/bin/playdv
/usr/share/doc/libdv-tools-1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libdv-tools-1.0.0/README.dvconnect
/usr/share/doc/libdv-tools-1.0.0/README.encoder
/usr/share/man/man1/dubdv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvconnect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/encodedv.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/playdv.1.gz

References

libdv-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libdv-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.