Veejay

a 'visual' instrument and realtime video sampler

Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video sampler. It allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling).

Installation

Veejay is divided into multiple packages:

1. veejay-server
2. veejay-client
3. veejay-utils
4. plugin-packs

For each package, run the confgure and make:

 ./autogen.sh
 ./configure
 make && make install

Before running veejay, be sure to add/link some TrueType fonts in

$HOME/.veejay/fonts

Usage

Running veejay is a much too large topic to cover in this readme. Various pointers have been bundled with the sources in veejay/veejay-current/veejay-server/doc

Articles covering various aspects of "how to veejay" can be found on veejayhq.net

But the quick answer would be:

1. Start one or more Veejay servers:

veejay my-movie-A.avi
veejay -p 4490 my-movie-B.avi

2. Start the veejay graphical interface:

reloaded

Building/Configuring plugins

Plugins enable additional video effects from various external sources. to build plugins.

GMIC plugins:

cd plugin-packs/lvdgmic
./autogen.sh
./configure && make 

Veejay looks in a few common locations to find plugins. You can list more locations in $HOME/.veejay/plugins.cfg

You can change the default parameter values by editing the files in $HOME/.veejay/frei0r/ and $HOME/.veejay/livido/

Alternative build targets

Veejay has been optimized for various architectures.

to build for a specific target:

 ./configure --with-arch-target=generic|core2|k6|native|i686

if you want to debug veejay-server (or if you want to submit a meaningful backtrace), build with:

 ./configure --enable-debug

FEATURE OVERVIEW

General

• Free Software (GNU GPL) (1)
• Servent architecture (2)
• Soft realtime (3)
• Frame accurate (4)
• Loop based editing (5)
• Native YUV processing
• Crash recovery

Media

• Codecs: MJPEG,MPNG, DV, YUV (raw)
• Containers: AVI , Quicktime, rawDV
• Devices: USB webcams, DV1394, TV capture cards, etc.
• Support for unlimited capture devices
• Support for Image files (PNG ,JPEG,TIFF,etc)

Editing

• 132 built-in FX , many unique and original FX filters
• 41 Livido filters
• FX chain (20 slots)
• All FX parameters can be animated.
• Mix up to two layers per FX slot
• Non destructive edit decision lists (cut/copy/paste/crop video)
• Simple text editor
• Sample editor
• Sequence editor
• Live disk recorder (sampling)
• Full deck save/restore
• Live clip loading
• Live sample sequencing

Trickplay

• VIMS event recording/playback (6)
• Various looping modes including bounce looping
• Playback speed and direction
• Video scratching
• Change in-and out points of a sample (marker)
• Slow motion audio / video (7)
• Fast motion audio / video
• Dynamic framerate
• Random frame play
• Random sample play
• Access up to 4096 video samples instantly

Output

• Audio trough Jack (low latency audio server) (8)
• SDL and OpenGL video
• Headless
• YUV4MPEG streaming
• Network streaming (unicast and multicast)
• Preview rendering

Interaction

• Programmable keyboard interface
• VIMS (tcp/ip)
• OSC (udp)
• PureData trough sendVIMS external

Viewing

• Full screen or windowed mode
• Perspective and foward projection (9)

Additional

• Support for FreeFrame plugins (only for 32 bit systems!)
• Support for Frei0r plugins
• Support for LiVIDO plugins

Contact / Feedback & HELP

Please join our mailing list on http://groups.google.com/group/veejay-discussion

Bug Reporting

Please use the ticket system on http://veejay.dyne.org

ENJOY! And let us know about your performances/installations with veejay!