Gephex 0.4.3b built on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10

I haven't found a better graph-based VJ tool than Gephex to use in Linux or Windows (but haven't been looking much either), and it's not trivial to get it running on a modern Ubuntu system- but I've worked through all the compiler messages (with the big exception of leaving out ffmpeg) and have an archive of the results available for download.

Go here for details and a link to the download:

http://code.google.com/p/binarymillenium/wiki/Gephex64BitBuild

The reconfiguring may screw it up a little, otherwise let it install to my choice of directories and then move the bin and lib etc. files as appropriate.

I'm hoping there is a new and well-supported tool out there that can take the place of gephex- movid is not intended for VJ work but may be retrofittable.

Gephex 0.4.3 updated for Ubuntu 8.10

Since there hasn't been a better version of Gephex since 0.4.3 (though I haven't tried compiling the repository recently, last time was not successful), I've downloaded the source and hacked it until it built on Ubuntu 8.10 updated to today:

http://binarymillenium.googlecode.com/files/gephex-0.4.3updated.tgz

I haven't tested it all the way, especially the video input modules, but it probably works.

Most of the changes have to do with updates to gcc, where it treats classname::method in cpp files as errors, and some files needed to include stdlib.h or string.h that didn't before. Also some structure definition in libavcodec had to be messed with- the static declaration removed.

nasm, qt3 in the form libqt3-headers, and libxv-dev had to be installed (and other non-standard things for 8.10 that I already had installed for other purposes). For qt3, flags for the include, bin, and lib dir needed to be passed to configure.

I had to run configure in the ffmpeg library and disable mmx with the --disable-mmx flag, putting that flag in the top-level makefile didn't work. My configuration specific makefiles are in the tarball so you would definitely have to rerun configure to override them.

Next I'll be creating a new custom gephex module for my ARToolkit multimarker UI project.

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Update

I've tested this build more extensively, and have discovered that the Ubuntu visual effects that are on by default cause the gephex output window to flicker. To disable them go to System | Preferences | Appearance | Visual Effects and select none. It's possible I need to build gephex with OpenGL support and these options will co-exist better.

Also, my screencap frei0r module I've depended on extensively in the past updates extremely slowly on the laptop I'm using currently, it may be an ATI thing (I originally developed it on an Nvidia system).

Gephex

I created a couple of custom gephex modules (for 0.4.3):

Average

Find the average color or brightness of a framebuffer. (maybe add HSV next)

Slow motion

Play back snippets of framebuffer input in slow motion. The music is from ccmixter, William Berry's Time To Take Out The Trash.

The source code (GPLed of course) and windows dlls are provided in those zip files.
More custom effects are on the way.



New video showing off basic gephex effects:




...but none of those I just created. Maybe next time.