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veejay 1.5.5 is out now! veejay-1.5.5 ChangeLog: fixed problem of setting playback speed while paused MIDI channel/parameter numbers in reloaded can be used as sample IDs where 0 = current playing.

The issue is raised every now and then: “How do I plug in my (USB WebCam/Digital Camera/Exotic Hardware) to veejay?” Currently, Veejay does not support decompressing digital video ( firewire) directly from the camera ( like on windows and mac). … Continue reading →

Instead of videofiles, veejay can use images as source Working: jpeg png bmp gdk-pixbuf supports at least jpeg png Possibly also: wbmp wmf ani bmp gif ico pcx pnm ras tga xmb xpm tiff svg Outputting images: Making screenshots (scales … Continue reading →

1. Video formats and containers A video file consists out of TWO seperate elements: * container * codec The container holds the digitally encoded data and the codec is capable of decoding/encoding this digitally encoded data. Veejay supports the AVI … Continue reading →

sendVIMS is an external for Pure Data. with sendVIMS, you can send VIMS messages directly to veejay, and receive the complete status back. With a little patching and trial&error you could easily built a custom interface for a performance or … Continue reading →

Veejay has a caching mechanism that loads (compressed) images from disk into RAM. Frames furthest away from the currently played position will be discarded first when the cache size limit is reached. By default, this limit is set to 30% … Continue reading →

Veejay can (down)mix from multiple sources Method 1/2. Mixing plain samples To mix ‘plain’ samples, i.e samples with no FX you can simply add a video effect to the current sample , click it in the FX chain and select … Continue reading →

Veejay can load both FreeFrame and Frei0r plugins. By default, veejay loads no plugins. You must create a file and enter the location of the plugins you want to load. Bad plugins can cause veejay to crash, test all your … Continue reading →

Veejay plays audio through Jack You must start the jack server prior to starting Veejay: $ jackd $ veejay video-file.avi If the audio samplerate differs (Jack plays 48Khz, veejay plays 44.1Khz), you need to setup jack in the proper samplerate. … Continue reading →

If you have started veejay with one or more video file(s) (thus not with $ veejay -d ), you can easily create new samples; First, Veejay must be running in plain mode Then, you can press the In and Out … Continue reading →

Reloaded 1.0 supports MIDI devices through ALSA To use your MIDI device with Reloaded, you need to use aconnect or aconnectgui to connect the MIDI device to Reloaded. To see all input devices (your MIDI devices) $ aconnect -i And … Continue reading →

You can support this project by buying something from the Veejay shop For now, I would definately go with the mug