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

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)

For compilation from source, you will need:



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.gz

Compile 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 scripts

And here you can find a Slackware package for LiVES.

Arch Linux

Packages can be obtained here

Fedora Core, Mandriva and SuSE

For Fedora Core, Mandriva and SuSE users, you can download RPMS from sourceforge.
Get LiVES at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads

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:
These are all optional.

Work in progress

Please see the code page.







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