How To Install slowmovideo on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowmovideo on Kali Linux. slowmovideo is create slow-motion videos from your footage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowmovideo on Kali Linux.

What is slowmovideo

slowmovideo is:

This does not simply make your videos play at 0.01 x speed. You can smoothly slow down and speed up your footage, optionally with motion blur.

How does slow motion work? slowmoVideo tries to find out where pixels move in the video (this information is called Optical Flow), and then uses this information to calculate the additional frames.

Videos in any format supported by ffmpeg can be loaded. Image sequences can also be loaded, so, if you did a timelapse with too few frames, slowmoVideo may help as well. slowmoVideo does not work with a constant slowdown factor but with curves that allow arbitrary time accelereation/deceleration/reversal. Motion blur can be added, as much as you want.

There are three methods to install slowmovideo on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install slowmovideo Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install slowmovideo using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install slowmovideo

Install slowmovideo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install slowmovideo using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install slowmovideo

Install slowmovideo Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install slowmovideo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install slowmovideo

How To Uninstall slowmovideo on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove slowmovideo

Uninstall slowmovideo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall slowmovideo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove slowmovideo

Remove slowmovideo Configurations and Data

To remove slowmovideo configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge slowmovideo

Remove slowmovideo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove slowmovideo configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slowmovideo

Dependencies

slowmovideo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install slowmovideo package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.