Wechselspieler 0.8.1 review

Wechselspieler is a tool for mapping movement and changes in an video stream to MIDI events Wechselspieler is an artistic tool to

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Thomas Kule?a

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Wechselspieler is a tool for mapping movement and changes in an video stream to MIDI events

Wechselspieler is an artistic tool to transform movement information coming from a file or camera based video stream into sound in realtime using the MIDI protocol. It features an easy to use GUI for defining/editing the image region to MIDI mappings.

Here are some key features of "Wechselspieler":
Runs on GNU/Linux.
Video image binarisation with color thresholds and difference images.
Multi object video tracking.
Video input from S-Video, Composite, TV, local and remote file streams.
MIDI protocol output via "Note On/Off" and "Controller Change" events. All MIDI parameters can be customized.
Control of all parameters for trigger regions and image binarisation while program is active.
Flexible image processing customizing through the GStreamer media processing framework.
Session management support. On start up the program automatically restores the state before you last quitted it.
Graphical user interface compliant to the GNOME user interface guidelines.
Binary packages for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 distribution.
OSC protocol support for integration with PD, SuperCollider 3, Max/MSP and others.

Requirements:
gtkmm 2.0.x
libxml++ 1.0.x
gstreamer 0.8.x
libglademm 2.4
ALSA
liblo
gnome-icon-theme

What's New in This Release:
The last release introduced some bugs. The Video4Linux input selection didn't work and the automatic rasterisation of the video input area was broken.

This is fixed now.