[gephex-devel] Hello! and a question or two

[Jay Thompson]

Hey everyone! Thought I should introduce myself. I'm Jay aka  
digitalhillbilly. I'm a geek livin in one of the last frontier towns  
in Canada - Cumberland, BC. I've been playing with computer A/V for  
the last 15 years at a few artist run centres in Vancouver doing tech  
for live performance art, music and installations. Everything was  
based on commercial apps and as time passed restrictions in use as  
well as getting tired of being just a user have peaked my interest in  
FOSS for the last couple years. I'm not a great programmer but am  
learning - being said, I'm happy to help out in whatever small ways I  
can.

I'll be providing video projections for an outdoor music festival  
here in mid August ( http://www.cumberlandvillageworks.com/ 
festival/ ) and want to do something a little cooler than just a  
bunch of video clips. I found quite a few apps over the last few  
weeks and Gephex stands out. Been playing with it now for a couple  
weeks on my XP machine and it's the way I want to go. Bought a nice  
new C2D to run the show and loaded Ubuntu on it. Ubuntu because I'm  
not the only person that will be using it and it's the least geeky of  
all linux flavours.

The event has quite a mix of music so I'm building up graphs with  
psychedelic ravey imagery, Australian aboriginal art styles,  
mandalas, Indian imagry and artwork as well as nature textures and  
Canadiana, coal miners and unions and some good 'ol burlesque style  
imagery. I have about 12 hours to fill. lol!

I have a number of issues I'm working through and am making progress  
but one in particular I'm having trouble with I was hoping someone  
could give a bit of advice. In XP using a live video feed via 1394  
was no problem - the capture source module found the signal no  
problem. However, it's not so in linux. the module is looking at v4l  
for the video source but, of course, there is nothing there. I've  
been going down a few roads (yuv2mpeg, a frei0r screen capture  
plugin, a couple others) and could use a bit of help on which is the  
best route.

Thanks!
jt
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