vimix

Live Video Mixing

vimix performs graphical mixing and blending of several movie clips and computer generated graphics, with image processing effects in real-time.

Its intuitive and hands-on user interface gives direct control on image opacity and shape for producing live graphics during concerts and VJ-ing sessions.

The output image is typically projected full-screen on an external monitor or a projector, and can be streamed live (SRT, Shmdata) or recorded (without audio).

vimix is the successor for GLMixer - https://sourceforge.net/projects/glmixer/

License

GPL-3.0-or-later See LICENSE

Install vimix

Check the Quick Installation Guide

Linux

Download and install a released flatpak package

flatpak install --user vimix

NB: Building your flatpak package is an option for testing the latest beta version from git ; instructions are here.

Download and install a released snap package (slower release frequency)

snap install vimix

Install the stable debian package (slower release frequency)

sudo apt install vimix

Mac OSX

Download and open a release package from https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix/releases

NB: You'll need to accept the exception in OSX security preference.

Build vimix

Clone

git clone --recursive https://github.com/brunoherbelin/vimix.git

This will create the directory 'vimix', download the latest version of vimix code, and (recursively) clone all the internal git dependencies.

Compile

First time after git clone:

mkdir vimix-build
cd vimix-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../vimix
cmake --build .

This will create the directory 'vimix-build', configure the program for build, and compile vimix. If successful, the compilation will have produced the executable vimix in the src directory. You can run vimix with ./src/vimix :

 ...
 [100%] Built target vimix
 ./src/vimix

Update clone and re-compile

Run these commands from the vimix-build directory if you did 'Clone' and 'Compile' previously and only want to get the latest update and rebuild.

git -C ../vimix/ pull
cmake --build .

This will pull the latest commit from git and recompile.

Try the Beta branch

Run this commands from the vimix-build directory before runing 'Update clone and re-compile above'

git -C ../vimix/ checkout beta

It should say;

branch 'beta' set up to track 'origin/beta'.
Switched to a new branch 'beta'

Dependencies

Compiling tools:

• gcc
• make
• cmake
• git

Libraries:

• gstreamer
• gst-plugins (libav, base, good, bad & ugly)
• libglfw3
• libicu (icu-i18n icu-uc icu-io)

Optionnal:

• glm
• stb
• TinyXML2
• AbletonLink
• Shmdata

Install Dependencies

Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential cmake libpng-dev libglfw3-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev gstreamer1.0-libav libicu-dev libgtk-3-dev 

Optionnal:

apt-get install libglm-dev libstb-dev libtinyxml2-dev ableton-link-dev 

Follow these instructions to install Shmdata.

git clone https://gitlab.com/sat-metalab/shmdata.git
mkdir shmdata-build
cd shmdata-build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DWITH_PYTHON=0 -DWITH_SDCRASH=0 -DWITH_SDFLOW=0 ../shmdata-build
cmake --build . --target package
sudo dpkg -i ./libshmdata_1.3*_amd64.deb

OSX with Brew

brew install cmake libpng glfw gstreamer icu4c