Download and install

Download the latest release

The packages require:

• Linux — Rocky Linux 8 or newer (glibc 2.28), x86-64
• Windows — Windows 10 or newer, 64-bit
• macOS — macOS 11 or newer on Apple silicon, or macOS 10.15 or newer on Intel
• A graphics driver with OpenGL 4.1, or OpenGL ES 3

Other systems can build from source; see the README.

Linux

Packages are distributed as tar archives. Uncompress the archive and move the DJV folder to a convenient location.

The archive has a desktop entry and icons under share, for the applications menu and for opening files from the file manager. The entry runs the application from the path; to install it for the current user, point it at the copy and put it where the desktop looks:

cd DJV
for entry in share/applications/*.desktop; do
    sed "s|^Exec=|Exec=$PWD/bin/|" $entry > ~/.local/share/applications/$(basename $entry)
done
cp -r share/icons ~/.local/share/
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications

Windows

Packages are distributed as NSIS installers or ZIP archives. Double-click the NSIS .exe file to start the installer, or, for ZIP archives, uncompress the archive and move the DJV folder to a convenient location.

macOS

Packages are distributed as macOS disk images, one for Apple silicon (arm64) and one for Intel (x86_64). Open the disk image and copy DJV to the Applications folder.

pip

DJV can also be installed with pip, for Python 3.12 or newer on Linux, macOS, and Windows:

pip install DJV-viewer
djv

The djv command runs the application. This is also the way to install on systems the packages are not built for, such as Linux on ARM, a Raspberry Pi 5 among them. The same codecs are included as in the packages.

The bindings DJV is built from are importable as djv, alongside tlrender and feather_tk; see Python.