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#1 2004-11-20 13:50:24

Michel
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[updated] LiVES video editor

Heya,

I'm no video-expert, but since there was also a request for cinerella, maybe this one is also nice for some people ... The main/original purpose of this video-editor was/is anime-video's. But I would recommend checking it out yourself ...

The multi_encoder is included. What is still missing is export to swf. What is supported, is mpeg-1, mpeg-2, vcd, divx, theora, ...
Containers as ogg, matroska, ...(?) are supported.
For sound : mp3, vorbis, pcm ...(?)

How you can get a list of the available audio-codecs that can be used in combination with your choosen video-codec/encoder:

First select the encoder and video-codec. Press "apply". Now, you can view your available audio-codecs. I suppose, you have to press "apply" again and then press "ok".

A hint if they are needed: You can load multiple files. Everytime you open a file, the other one isn't thrown away ... unless you close it explicitly as far as I know. You can switch between the clips using the clips-menu or the keyboard-shortcuts (ctrl+pageup/pagedown).

# Contributor: Michel Brabants <michel.linux@tiscali.be>
pkgname=LiVES
pkgver=0.9.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="LiVES is a video editor. It is fully extendible through open standard RFX plugin scripts. There is also experimental support for LiViDO-plugins. LiVES is aimed at the digital video artist, the video editor who wants to create professional looking video, and the VJ who wants to captivate with spectacular images. It's main purpose is making ANIME-movies."
url="http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/"
license=""
#mplayer needs to be compiled with jpeg/png-support
depends=('gtk2' 'perl' 'mplayer>=0.90rc1' 'imagemagick>=5' 'libjpeg' 'gdk-pixbuf' 'sox' 'transcode' 'mjpegtools' 'cdrtools' 'sdl' 'mjpegtools>=1.6.2' 'ogmtools' 'mkvtoolnix' 'libmatroska' 'libtheora')
makedepends=('gettext')
source=(http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Esalsaman/lives/current/$pkgname-$pkgver-src.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('b1c045e3e71172aad55930cdad2e7021')


#todo: export to swf
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

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#2 2004-11-20 14:01:30

Michel
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Maybe it is nice to make directories in /opt for rfx- and livido-plugins since these are standardized ... ? I don't know if LiVes could still find them then unless with some ugly hack like symlinks ... ofcourse one could post a request to their mailinglist for this if needed ...

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#3 2004-12-06 19:48:56

Michel
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Heya,

I addded support for the multi_encoder. I think that the only export-possibility that is missing at the moment, is the export to swf.

Hope you like it,

Michel

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#4 2004-12-06 20:03:10

Michel
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Heya,

Ok, I did something wrong that crashed lives ... I think it is my own fault:

in the preferences I selected "png" as the default image format, but I didn't change anything in the "mogrify"-file ... so I suppose it is my own fault. When I changed it back to jpeg, lives didn't crash anymore when loading a file.

I also discovered, how you can get a list of the available audio-codecs that can be used in combination with your choosen video-codec/encoder.

First select the encoder and video-codec. Press "apply". Now, you can view your available audio-codecs. I suppose, you have to press "apply" again and then press "ok".

Michel

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#5 2004-12-07 16:54:22

robot5x
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

this looks really interesting - just compiled the new version out today. Haven't had a lot of time to play around it with it, but if it does everything it says it does I'll be using it a lot!

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#6 2004-12-08 00:58:48

Michel
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Heya,

seems there was an update today/yesterday (to 0.9.1) ...

I would advise everyone to look at the BUGS-file that you can find in the tar-ball, so you know what kind of problems you could expect.

Michel

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#7 2006-12-12 22:40:02

kamagurka
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Is this thing anywhere in any repository by now? 'Cause I sure can't find it...


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#8 2006-12-12 22:58:56

auditek747
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

It's in the AUR.

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#9 2006-12-12 23:29:06

kamagurka
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

auditek747 wrote:

It's in the AUR.

That's a no, then? Man, installing something from UNSUPPORTED sure looks like a lot of work. Oh well.


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#10 2006-12-13 01:09:24

auditek747
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

I won't pretend to know what I'm doing, as I'm fairly new to
Arch, but it's not hard.
First of all, make sure you install "fakeroot" (pacman -Sy fakeroot)
Then, on the AUR page for "LiVES", there is:
Tarball :: Files :: PKGBUILD
And below that the dependencies are listed. They can probably be had
from the normal repositories. Get them if you don't have them.
Next, download the Tarball and extract it somewhere. This will
create the directory "lives". Enter this dir and as a regular user,
do:
makepkg
This will download the source and build a package like this:
lives-0.9.8_pre2-1.pkg.tar.gz
If you've gotten no errors, su to root and install with:
pacman -A lives-0.9.8_pre2-1.pkg.tar.gz

Notes:

Be sure to build as regular user

If the download won't start, ctrl/c to abort and do makepkg again.

I don't know what to do with the left over files and build dir.
I've just been sh*t-canning them.

Removal would be:
pacman -R lives-0.9.8_pre2

Please keep in mind that everything I've told you is probably
wrong so... Good Luck smile

P.S.
Have you used LiVES before?

minus:
Very slow to start
Painfully slow to import clips and render effects.

plus:
Very stable
Lot's of effects

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#11 2006-12-13 01:52:11

XVampireX
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

just makepkg -s will fetch all dependencies for you and continue installing smile

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#12 2006-12-13 02:08:28

auditek747
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

XVampireX wrote:

just makepkg -s will fetch all dependencies for you and continue installing smile

Touche'   Mon Fre're

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#13 2006-12-13 16:23:46

kamagurka
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Re: [updated] LiVES video editor

Sweet, thanks.


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