LiVES - LiVES is a Video Editing System
The LiVES software is a volunteer project. Please help keep the project going by making a donation here.
Downloads
Requirements to run LiVES
Windows and Mac (Intel) users
Windows and Mac (Intel) users can try out LiVES by downloading and burning a dyne:bolic bootable CD, and then installing the LiVES module. See here for more information.GNU/Linux, BSD and UNIX
- x86 800MHZ+ (recommended) or PPC (spec unknown) or amd64 (any). 2GHz+ Pentium/AMD for real time effects.
- 256MB+ memory for encoding (recommended 512 MB+)
- 5 - 10+ GB disk space as a minimum (more is better)
- GNU/Linux 2.x, BSD, openMosix or Solaris (OpenSolaris 2009.06 or higher) (also compiles under IRIX)
See below for sourcecode and links to binaries.
OSX Leopard
LiVES will compile and run under OSX Leopard; however it has not been well tested due to a lack of test hardware.There is a note here from a user who has successfully compiled LiVES 1.1.6 under OSX 10.5.
It would be great if somebody could send me a .dmg file for others to download !
Software requirements (GNU/Linux)
- mplayer 0.90rc1+ compiled with jpeg/png support (version 1.0pre8+ recommended)
- ImageMagick 5+
- perl 5+
- gtk+ 2.10+
- libjpeg62
- gdk-pixbuf-loaders
- sox with libsox-fmt-all
- python 2.3.4+ (recommended)
- SDL (recommended)
- mencoder 1.0-pre5+ (recommended)
- libmjpeg-tools (recommended)
- libtheora (recommended)
- libjack/jackit (recommended)
- xmms (optional)
- cdda2wav (optional)
For compilation from source, you will need:
- GNU automake 1.7 or higher
- GNU autoconf 2.57 or higher
- GNU gettext 0.12.1 or higher
- GNU libtool 1.5.22 or higher
- libgtk2.0-dev 2.10 or higher
Latest development version: 1.1.6 for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems (released 15 November 2009)
Download : Source
README - how to install
Changes - See CHANGELOG for more details.
Release Notes
None.Latest stable version: 1.0.6 for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems (released 15 November 2009)
Download : Source
README - how to install
Changes - See CHANGELOG for more details.
Release Notes
None.Checksums
LiVES 1.x.6: Signed sha1 and sha256 checksums.LiVES 1.x.5: Signed sha1 and sha256 checksums.
LiVES 1.x.4: Signed sha1 and sha256 checksums.
LiVES 1.x.3: Signed sha1 and sha256 checksums.
See the contact page to verify the gpg fingerprint.
Frei0r Support
These releases contain (optional) support for Frei0r effects. You can use these by: downloading Frei0r effects from http://www.piksel.no/frei0r/snapshot/frei0r-latest.tar.gzCompile and install frei0r before compiling LiVES. Frei0r effects can be bound to keys in LiVES using the realtime effects window (ctrl-v).
For more information on frei0r, see: http://www.piksel.org/frei0r
Binaries (some versions may not be current)
Debian
LiVES is in the official debian repositories, so:aptitude install lives
should just work. Alternately you can use a graphical package manager like synaptic to download and install LiVES.
Note: if you have getdeb packages installed, you will need to remove these before updating from the official debian repositories.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu packages are available from getdeb.net. These packages are recommended for ubuntu users.There are also "official" packages for ubuntu, however these are *broken* due to a bug in the ubuntu build system. Any further comments about this should be left there.
Ubuntu Studio
Ubuntu Studio packages are available from ubuntufromscratch. However these are also affected by the ubuntu build bug noted above.Gentoo
For Gentoo users, there are ebuilds for x86, ppc and amd64. Just type "emerge lives" (without the quotes).Slackware
Slackbuild scriptsAnd here you can find a Slackware package for LiVES.
Arch Linux
Packages can be obtained hereFedora Core, Mandriva and SuSE
For Fedora Core, Mandriva and SuSE users, you can download RPMS from sourceforge.Thanks to Scott Barninger !
Note: Mandriva seems to be also including LiVES again officially as of 2010.0.
Custom Scripts for LiVES!
Once you have succesfully installed LiVES, you might want to customise it. LiVES now uses scriptable plugins to create custom effects and tools. Add-ons can be downloaded/installed from here.Extras
multi_encoder is now the recommended encoder for LiVES, it has its own requirements here.To use all the other encoder plugins, you need:
- mencoder (part of mplayer)
- transcode
- ffmpeg
- libdv2-apps or libdv (encodedv)
- sswf (for the new swf encoder)
- mjpegtools (for mpeg1/2,vcd,svcd,dvd)
- ghostscript (for pdf encoding)
- x264
- Matroska
Work in progress
Please see the code page.LiVES website © Copyright Gabriel "Salsaman" Finch.
Site maintained by Salsaman and VJ pixel.
All images on this site are used with permission of their owners.

