amotl / vlctwist

VLM (VideoLAN Manager) configuration for twisting videos with VLC media player

vlctwist

About

Overlay videos with alpha compositing and rotation using VLM from VLC.

Getting started

Create and activate isolated python environment:

aptitude install python-virtualenv    # optional
virtualenv --no-site-packages .venv
. .venv/bin/activate

Install prerequisites:

easy_install pip              # optional
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop

Standalone / client:

vlctwist --help
./vlctwist_example.sh

Daemon:

vlctwistd --help
vlctwistd

Issues

Debian:

# The required version of setuptools (>=0.6c9) is not available
easy_install -U setuptools

Ubuntu:

# zt.graphics.alpha   : INFO    : Create alpha mask image with size (320, 240)
# wsgiservice.resource: ERROR   : An exception occured while handling the request: encoder zip not available

# 1. setup dependencies
aptitude install libjpeg libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev

# 2. Install PIL with Jpeg support on Ubuntu Oneiric 64bit
# http://jj.isgeek.net/2011/09/install-pil-with-jpeg-support-on-ubuntu-oneiric-64bits/

ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib
pip install --upgrade PIL

Development

Code style checks:

pip install pep8
pep8 --repeat src/