LiVES
LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It is frame and sample accurate, can handle almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.
| Tags | multimedia Video Conversion Non-Linear Editor Display Sound/Audio Capture |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL GPLv3 or later |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux BSD |
| Implementation | Perl C Python |
| Translations | English French German Dutch Japanese Portuguese Czech Hungarian Spanish Turkish Italian Russian Simplified Chinese Brazilian Portuguese Slovakian Hebrew Finnish Ukrainian Uzbek Danish Telugu Catalan Galician Occitan Arabic Croatian Estonian Romanian Polish Uyghur |
Recent releases
- 04 Feb 2012 17:02
Release Notes: Playback has been optimised by tweaking audio settings. A regression in the backup has been fixed. A floating point fps bug for mkv decoder has been fixed. External window capturing has been rewritten, and now works with Compiz. An (experimental) openGL playback plugin has been added. Minor GUI fixes have been made. Recording of external audio during playback has been implemented. Clip names no longer get squashed in sets. Further code cleanup has been carried out, and there are updated translations to Ukranian, Finnish, and UK English.
- 15 Jan 2012 01:51
Release Notes: The codebase has been substantially rewritten since the 1.4.x branch. Various bugfixes were made.
- 08 Dec 2011 23:05
Release Notes: Support for v4l2loopback output has been added. Instant opening of WebM / Matroska clips and a Youtube download tool have been implemented. Fixes were made for crash recovery for virtual clips, and a possible crash when showing preview frame in multitrack. Memory allocation has been optimized for multiplanar images. A compilation problem from the last release has been fixed.
- 26 Nov 2011 22:16
Release Notes: Optimizations were made for resizing for virtual clips, threading in colour conversions, image rescaling, and PNG loading. Letterbox mode has been implemented for fullscreen playback and encoding. Playback start may now be triggered by joystick or MIDI. Bugs were fixed in append_audio, undo/redo effect in multitrack, and other places. New mencoder formats flv and wmv2/wma were added. There is initial language support for Uyghur and updated translations for Chinese (Simplified), Finnish, Japanese, Slovak, Spanish, Telugu, Ukranian, and Uzbek.
- 15 Oct 2011 14:09
Release Notes: Instant opening of asf (wmv) files has been implemented. Bugs in opening of float and reverse endian audio were fixed. Individual decoder plugins can now be enabled/disabled in Preferences. A complete translation to Japanese is included, along with updated translations to Ukranian, Spanish, and Polish.
Recent comments
0.9.8.2
0.9.8.2 fixes the bug in 0.9.8.
Anybody who downloaded 0.9.8 (between 16th and 19th December 2006), should upgrade to 0.9.8.2 ASAP.
LiVES 0.9.8 try 2
Anybody who downloaded 0.9.8 before 19th December 2006, should download the current version. There was a serious bug to do with file saving/reloading in that version.
0.9.5 audio playback bug fixed !
There was a bug in the first release of 0.9.5 which prevented audio playback. I have now fixed this and posted a revised version.
Image loading in 0.7.5
I've just noticed image loading is broken in 0.7.5. This is the result of some bad coding in 'smogrify'. To fix this, edit /usr/bin/smogrify, and change the lines:
# get number of frames
if ($count>0) {
# double check number of frames
$found=0;
for ($i=$count;$i--;$i>0&&$found==0) {
$name=&mkname($i);
if (-f $name) {
$found=$i;
to:
# get number of frames
if ($count>0) {
# double check number of frames
$found=0;
for ($i=$count;$i>0&&$found==0;$i--) {
$name=&mkname($i);
if (-f "$name$img_ext") {
$found=$i;
Version 0.6.5
This is mainly a bugfix release for some annoying issues that ended up in 0.6.0
One new feature has been added, midi synch. See the CHANGELOG for more details.
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