How To Install movit on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install movit on CentOS 7. movit is GPU video filter library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install movit on CentOS 7.

What is movit

Movit is a library for video filters. It uses the GPU present in many computers to accelerate computation of common filters and transitions, facilitating real-time HD video editing. This package contains the Movit shared library.

We can use yum or dnf to install movit on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install movit.

Install movit on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install movit

Install movit on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install movit

How To Uninstall movit on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove movit

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install movit on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.