How To Install vmaf on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install vmaf on CentOS 8. vmaf is Video Multi-Method Assessment Fusion

Introduction

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

What is vmaf

VMAF is a perceptual video quality assessment algorithm developed by Netflix. VMAF Development Kit (VDK) is a software package that contains the VMAF algorithm implementation, as well as a set of tools that allows a user to train and test a custom VMAF model. For an overview, read this tech blog post, or this slide deck. https

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

Install vmaf on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install vmaf

Install vmaf on CentOS 8 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 vmaf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vmaf

How To Uninstall vmaf on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove vmaf

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Summary

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