Rules of Thumb

- Veejay is the server
- Reloaded is the client
- Sayvims is the console mini-client
- You can interact with the server directly (SDL mouse and keyboard)
- Veejay’s console output logs your actions

system docs


$ reloaded -h
$ veejay -h
$ man veejay
$ veejay -u

Various ways to launch the server

In dummy mode (just a stream with black video, hit the color wheel in the Stream pad
to change its color)

$ veejay -d

To open your Video4Linux device, you can do something like

$ echo "240:0 1;" | sayVIMS

Or you can use reloaded, click GVeejay in the Menu, Stream -> New, and doubleclick
your capture device.

To start veejay with a videofile (preferred), you can do something like

$ veejay -v mjpeg-video-file.avi

Solo’ing the server

All the keybindings in veejay depend on SDL; if you move your mouse over to the
SDL windows to focus it you can interact directly with the output.

KP= Numeric KeyPad, check numlock.

Create new sample from your entire video file and play it by pressing:
KP1, Left Bracket, KP3, Right Bracket , F1

If you press ‘KP divide’ , veejay will return to plain video mode so you can create more clips. If you press ‘ESC’ , veejay will switch from playing streams to playing clips or vice versa

Press F1 to F12 to select a clip,
Press 1 to 9 to select a bank (1 = clips 1 to 12, 2 = clips 12 to 24, etc )

Once you are playing a clip/stream, simply press ‘Cursor UP’ , ‘ENTER’
If you add a video effect, try pressing ‘-’ and ‘=’ to select another channel and ‘/’ to
toggle between clip/stream sources

Veejay supports chaining of effects since day 0, a number of keys have some importance

‘-’ ,’=’ and ‘/’
‘END’ for enabling/disabling the chain
‘KP -’ for selecting the previous entry
‘KP +’ for selecting the next entry
‘ENTER’ for adding an effect from the list to the chain
‘DEL’ for removing an effect from the chain

Also, you can press ‘HOME’ to see clip or stream information. Try the keys ‘A’ to ‘L’ to increase/decrease playback speed, Press ALT + ‘A’ to ‘L’ to increase/decrease
slow motion speed.

Some keyboard bindings
Description SDL key In plain english
Set the starting position of a new sample SDLK_LEFTBRACKET Left bracket
Set ending position and create a new sample SDLK_RIGHTBRACKET Right bracket
Select and play sample 1 SDLK_F1 F1
Set playback speed to 3 SDLK_d d
Change looptype SDLK_KP_MULTIPLY asterix on numeric keypad
Play backward SDLK_KP_4 Cursor left on numeric keypad
Play forward SDLK_KP_6 Cursor right on numeric keypad
Skip 1 second SDLK_KP_8 Cursor up on numeric keypad
Switch playmode to Plain SDLK_KP_DIVIDE Divide on numeric keypad
Print information about sample SDLK_HOME Home

All keys are listed in

$ man veejay