How To Install libyami on CentOS 8

libyami is Yet Another Media Infrastructure library. Yet Another Media Infrastructure library.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libyami on CentOS 8.

What is `libyami`

Yet Another Media Infrastructure. It is YUMMY to your video experience on Linux like platform. Yami is core building block for media solution. it parses video stream and decodes them leverage hardware acceleration. libyami 1.3.1 1.el8 x86_64 267 k libyami-1.3.1-1.el8.src.rpm appstream Yet Another Media Infrastructure library. https ASL 2.0 Yet Another Media Infrastructure. It is YUMMY to your video experience on Linux like platform. Yami is core building block for media solution. it parses video stream and decodes them leverage hardware acceleration.

We can use yum or dnf to install libyami on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libyami.

Install libyami on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libyami using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libyami

Install libyami on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install libyami using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libyami

How To Uninstall libyami on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libyami package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libyami

libyami Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/libyami
/usr/include/libyami/VideoCommonDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderCapi.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderCapi.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/Yami.h
/usr/include/libyami/YamiC.h
/usr/include/libyami/YamiVersion.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/70e91785df217bba3df3771cbabab7731084dd
/usr/lib64/libyami.so
/usr/lib64/libyami.so.1
/usr/lib64/libyami.so.1.3.1
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libyami.pc
/usr/include/libyami
/usr/include/libyami/VideoCommonDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderCapi.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoDecoderInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderCapi.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoEncoderInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessDefs.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessHost.h
/usr/include/libyami/VideoPostProcessInterface.h
/usr/include/libyami/Yami.h
/usr/include/libyami/YamiC.h
/usr/include/libyami/YamiVersion.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/2462095ed26ac5e0d554d798885f234cc2d40d
/usr/lib/libyami.so
/usr/lib/libyami.so.1
/usr/lib/libyami.so.1.3.1
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libyami.pc

References

[libyami website](https://github.com/01org/libyami https://github.com/01org/libyami)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libyami on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.