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


Release Notes: Regressions in Paste as New, Fade Audio In/Out, and load images were fixed. An occasional crash in load new audio was fixed. A bug affecting resizing some webcam frames was fixed. Rowstride errors in effecTV plugins were fixed. revTV effect was added.


Release Notes: Various compilation errors in 2.0.0 were fixed. The filename is now correctly set in the ogg decoder. A rounding error in multitrack audio insertion was fixed.


Release Notes: Compilation with gtk+ 3 has been implemented, along with a new timeline widget for gtk+ 3. A crash in recording external audio with pulse player has been fixed. Minor fixes have been made to startup dialogs and labels. Audio is no longer dropped when re-entering multitrack. Fixes have been added for the beat_detector plugin. Various optimizations and minor bugfixes have been made. Updates have been made to all language translations (adding translator credits).


Release Notes: A library versioning issue in version 1.8.1 was corrected. There is (another) fix for a double typedef compilation error. Tracks in the multitrack window may be renamed.


Release Notes: Bugs with the RFX builder menus, Resize All Frames, encoding with resample, and Append Audio have been fixed. Several compilation problems have been resolved. A crash in audio previews (open/append new audio) has been fixed, and previews in the fileselector in general are now more responsive. The new effects neural_net, motion_analyser, and fourKlives have been added. There is a new interface in the effect mapper window for making/showing data connections. German, Russian, and Ukranian translations have been updated.
Recent comments
18 Dec 2006 20:15
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.
18 Dec 2006 15:12
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.
31 Dec 2005 07:58
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.
04 Sep 2003 16:14
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;
26 Jun 2003 11:33
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.
C++ template classes implementing a B+ tree key/data container in main memory.