- Melt
- If you wanna run melt don't try to do it in windows. It is immensely unstable
- If you're trapped in windows I reccomend VMWare Player with debian/xfce.
- Make sure you install the nifty VMWare tools inside the linux
- Start with "melt -query" to see all the available producers, filters and transitions
- Check out the docs fom MLT
- VLC
- You need to explicitly turn on the telnet interface to do what I did. This is annoyingly deep inside VLC's settings.\
- Tools>preferences>all>Main Interface: enable Web and telnet
- Tools>preferences>all>Main Interface>Lua: set a password in both fields
- Check out these instructions if my notes above did not help
- the command "help" will give you whats available and "longhelp " will give details on one command specifically.
- Here is the tiny boilerplate I used in the talk. Run it with
irb -I . -r master.rb
- You need to explicitly turn on the telnet interface to do what I did. This is annoyingly deep inside VLC's settings.\
#filename: master.rb
require 'socket'
$vlcSock = TCPSocket.new 'localhost', 4212
#password. put whatever you set it to in place of 1234
$vlcSock.puts "1234"
def vlc arg
$vlcSock.puts arg
end- YouTube iFrame API - Youtube has a JS library to load up iFrames with players in them and give you complete programatic control over the iFrame.
- AVIDemux - The ancient on of Open Source video editors. Has aPython REPL built in, but no docs at all.
- Natron - GUI fans rejoice. Natron provides a node-base video compositing system. Highlights include: GLSL filter, G'MIC espressions, SeExpr,
- performance leave more than a little to be desired. I can get like... maybe 15fps on anything cool
- Adobe API - Adobe has an API for writing plugins to like Premier and such. But if you hack in and use it to live code instead you'll be my hero.
- OBS - Very Popular streaming tool. Has a Lua and Python scripting api. Also has a C plugin architecture; make of that what you will.
- LiVES - a GUI tool for VJ stuff in linux. I have never been able to figure out how to operate the thing, let alone script it. But I read in an ancient tome once that it is possible.