HOWTO.plugins.md

Video Plugins FX

Veejay contain more than 160 built-in FX, many unique and original FX filters.
But you can have more !

Plugin-packs available with veejay

There are several plugin-packs available with veejay:

• lvdcrop ; a couple of crop filters and a port of frei0r's scale0tilt
• lvdshared ; a couple of plugins that implement a producer/consumer mechanism for shared video resources
• lvdgmic ; a couple of GMIC based filters, although slow in processing they are quite amazing
• lvdasciiart ; let's do ascii ! ported from ffmpeg ASCII filter writen by Alexander Tumin

To compile and install a plugin-pack:

$ cd veejay-source/plugin-packs/lvdgmic
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure && make

How veejay will find installed plugins ?

By default, veejay looks in the following commmon locations to find plugins:

• /usr/local/lib
• /usr/lib/
• /usr/local/lib64
• /usr/lib64
• /usr/local/lib/frei0r-1
• /usr/lib/frei0r-1
• /usr/lib64/frei0r-1

You can list more locations in $HOME/.veejay/plugins.cfg
Create a file to tell veejay where to find plugins:

$ mkdir ~/.veejay
$ vi ~/.veejay/plugins.cfg

Apart from the differences due to your OS, the contents of the file can look like:

/usr/local/lib/freeframe

Veejay will pick up the plugins configured in the plugins.cfg file the next time you start it.

Plugins default values

You can change the default parameter values by editing the files in $HOME/.veejay/frei0r/ and $HOME/.veejay/livido/