EFFECTV(1)
NAME
effectv - real-time video effector
SYNOPSIS
effectv [options...] [effect name]
DESCRIPTION
EffecTV is a real-time video effector. You can enjoy movies, TV programs and any other video stream through the many amazing effects. Run
EffecTV and push Up/Down arrow key to change the effect.
EffecTV accepts options and an effect name. In most cases you need not
to set any options and name. You may specify a device file name and a
channel number to see the input source you want.
EffecTV can be launched from any effect you want. Put an effect name
after the command name ("effectv") or option(s). It's case-insensitive,
and a trailing "TV" can be omitted.
OPTIONS
-help Show usage (help) information.
- -device FILE
- Use device FILE for video4linux (default is /dev/video0).
- -channel NUMBER
- Channel number of video source (default is 0).
- -norm NORM
- Set video norm (default is ntsc). One of ntsc, pal, secam, palnc, pal-m, pal-n, ntsc-jp.
- -freqtab FREQTAB
- Set frequency table. One of us-bcast, us-cable, us-cable-hrc, japan-bcast, japan-cable, europe-west, europe-east, italy, newzealand, australia, ireland, france, china-bcast, southafrica, argentina, canada-cable, australia-optus.
- -fullscreen
- Enable fullscreen mode.
- -hardware
- Use direct video memory(if possible).
- -doublebuffer
- Enable double buffering mode (if possible).
- -fps Show frames/sec.
- -size WxH
- Set the size of capturing image to WxH pixels. (default 320x240)
- -geometry WxH
- Set the size of screen to WxH pixels.
- -scale NUMBER
- Set the scaling. When the capturing size is set, the screen size is scaled by NUMBER.
- -autoplay FRAMES
- Changes effects automatically every FRAMES.
- -palette
{rgb24,rgb565,rgb555,yuv422,yuv422p,yuv420p,yuv411p,yuv410p,grey} - Set the palette of capturing device. It is detected automatically by default.
- -vloopback FILE
- Use device FILE for output of vloopback device.
KEYS
- Up/Down
- Change effect.
- Right/Left
- Change TV channel.
- Space Capture a background image(for FireTV, BurningTV, etc.). Change
- mode(for SpiralTV, TransFormTV).
- ALT+ENTER
- Fullscreen mode(toggle).
- TAB Flip images horizontally.
- Escape Quit
- ALT+0-9
- Change video input channel (0-9).
- F1/F2 Increase/decrease brightness of video input.
- F3/F4 Increase/decrease hue.
- F5/F6 Increase/decrease color balance.
- F7/F8 Increase/decrease contrast.
- F12 Show this key usage.
- More details for each effects are described in documents package. You should download effectv-docs.tar.gz found at EffecTV web page.
EFFECTS
- QuarkTV
- Dissolves moving objects.
- FireTV Clips incoming objects and burns it.
- BurningTV
- Burns incoming objects.
- RadioacTV
- Brightens moving objects and blurs it.
- StreakTV
- Makes 8 afterimages.
- BaltanTV
- Makes afterimages longer.
- 1DTV Grabs a horizontal line from video every 1/30 sec.
- DotTV Converts the picture into a set of dots.
- MosaicTV
- Censors incoming objects.
- PuzzleTV
- Scrambles the picture.
- PredatorTV
- Makes incoming objects invisible visibly.
- SpiralTV
- Spiraling effect.
- SimuraTV
- Color distortion and image mirroring.
- EdgeTV Detects edge and display it like good old computer way.
- ShagadelicTV
- Go back to swinging '60s!
- NoiseTV
- Makes incoming objects noisy.
- AgingTV
- Film-aging effect.
- LifeTV Conway's life game with video input interaction.
- TransFormTV
- Performs positional translations on images.
- SparkTV
- Spark effect.
- warpTV Goo'ing effect.
- HolographicTV
- Holographic vision seen in Star Wars.
- cycleTV
- Color cycling effect.
- RippleTV
- Ripple mark effect.
- DiceTV A 'dicing' effect.
- VertigoTV
- Alpha blending with zoomed and rotated images.
- DeinterlaceTV
- Deinterlacing video images.
- nervousTV
- Realtime frame shuffling effect.
- RndmTV Gives you a noisy picture in color or B/W.
- RevTV Waveform monitor effect.
- RandomDotStereoTV
- Makes random dot stereo stream from video input.
- LensTV Old school demo lens effect.
- DiffTV Hilights interframe differences.
- BrokenTV
- Simulates broken TV.
- WarholTV
- Hommage to Andy Warhol.
- MatrixTV
- A Matrix like effect.
- PUPTV Comes from "Partial UPdate", certain part of image is updated at
- a frame.
- ChameleonTV
- Still object will be disappearing.
- OpTV Optical art meets real-time video effect.
- NervousHalf
- A half of the screen delays or be nervous.
- SloFastTV
- Non-linear time TV.
- DisplayWall
- Full of small displays with a distorted perspective view.
- BlueScreenTV
- Blue sceen effect: changes scene background.
- ColourfulStreak
- Streak effect with color.
- TimeDistortion
- Scratch the surface and playback old images.
- EdgeBlurTV
- Extract edge, and make blur.
AUTHOR
The core of EffecTV was developed by FUKUCHI Kentaro
<fukuchi@users.sourceforge.net>. See the file CREWS for full list of
developers.