EffecTV: an old-school real-time video effect processor.

History

• EffecTV celebrates its 20th anniversary. (2021/2/14)
  • This web site has been renewed.
  • Repository has been moved to GitHub.
  • New development branch that supports modern Linux environment has been published.
• EffecTV runs on ARM-Linux, a Turkish engineer reported. (2006/8/16)

  Ali Utku Selen, a Turkish engineer, reported that he succeeded to run EffecTV on an ARM based board. "(snipped) everything works on a Intel (XScale) PXA 270 arm processor with arm-linux 2.4.20 and gcc 3.3.2" he reported. Besides he proposed "In fact I believe you should replace architecture requirements from first page with "Try and See" :)". Thanks Ali!

• a bug fix patch released. (2006/2/16)

  Please download a bug fix patch for the latest release effectv-0.3.11. This patch fixes a memory problem of TimeDistortion.

• version 0.3.11 has been released. (2006/2/14)
  • New effects:DisplayWall, BlueScreenTV, ColourfulStreak, TimeDistortion, EdgeBlurTV
  • Visual appearance of ShagadelicTV and OpTV become resolution independent.
  • Now it is able to change the video input channel at runtime. (ALT+0-9)
  • Video capturing becomes robust. Even if it failed to grab a image, it retry every second instead of the red screen of death.
  • Some bug fixes and code cleanings.
• version 0.3.10 has been released. (2005/2/14)
  • New effects: OpTV, NervousHalf and SloFastTV.
  • Light flickering effect has been added to AgingTV.
  • Key usage added.
• version 0.3.9 has been released. (2004/1/13)
  • New effects: MatrixTV, PUPTV and ChameleonTV.
  • API of effect module has been simplified.
  • The supported version of vloopback has been changed from 0.90 to 0.91. Older version is no longer supported.
  • 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.
  • Some new features have been added to FireTV, BurningTV, RadioacTV and SparkTV.
  • PuzzleTV's block sliding effect becomes smooth.
  • Many bug fixes.
• BackStage Branch 20030214 has been released. (2003/2/14)

  St. Valentine's day gift from EffecTV is BackStage Branch snapshot! It includes GUI, OpenGL effects, preset system, etc. Please note that this release is early development stage.

• version 0.3.8 has been released. (2002/10/5)
  • New effects: BrokenTV and WarholTV.
  • The default v4l device file was changed from "/dev/video" to "/dev/video0".
  • The supported version of vloopback was changed from 0.83 to 0.90. Version 0.83 is still supported, but it is not recommended.
  • YUV422P and YUV420P format converter has been added to vloopback support.
  • vloopback support has been approved. FFmpeg has been supported.
• version 0.3.7 has been released. (2002/8/9)
  • New effects: LensTVand DiffTV.
  • Added new mode to NervousTV.
  • Some bug fixes.
• BackStage Branch 20020615 has been released. (2002/6/18)

  After a long interval, new BackStage Branch release is now available. It contains a lot of new experimental features - OpenGL, plugin mechanism, and of course, new effects. Some code are still out of date, but we'll fix them as soon as possible.

• version 0.3.6 has been released. (2002/4/18)
  • New effect: RandomDotStereoTV.
  • NemoTV has been removed.
  • Video input tuning feature has been added.
• NemoTV has been removed because of copyright violation. (2002/4/18)

  The original effect of NemoTV is "Time Stretcher" developed by Bill Spinhoven, and is showed in the NemoMuseum in the Netherlands. We received a mail from Bill, and he claims that NemoTV violates his right. We decided to remove NemoTV from EffecTV.

• version 0.3.5 is released. (2002/4/1)
  • New effect: RndmTV, RevTV and NemoTV.
  • Some bugfixes.
• version 0.3.4 is released. (2002/2/14)
  • New effect: DeinterlaceTV and nervousTV.
  • Added 3 new mode to RadioacTV.
  • EffecTV 1st Anniversary and St. Valentine's Day special for DotTV.
  • Horizontal flipping crash bug was fixed.
• version 0.3.3 is released. (2001/11/1)
  • New effect: VertigoTV.
  • EffecTV now supports PlayStation2 Linux Kit!
  • New option -palette was added for some USB devices.
• version 0.3.2 is released. (2001/9/27)
  • New effects: DiceTV, RippleTV and CycleTV.
  • More YUV based format support(for video input) was added.
  • Some bugfixes, optimizations and visual enhancements.
• version 0.3.1 is released. (2001/7/9)
  • YUV pixel format support was added.
  • Many bugfixes. More V4L devices now work.
• version 0.3.0 is released. (2001/6/10)
  • New effects: NoiseTV, AgingTV, LifeTV, SparkTV, HolographicTV, WarpTV and TransformTV.
  • Capturing size and screen size now can be set freely. New option -size, -geometry, -scale were added. -double and -hireso were removed.
  • Various pixel formats of captured image were supported.
  • Autoplay mode was added. (EXPERIMENTAL)
  • Video loop back support was enhanced (EXPERIMENTAL). EffecTV now can be chained!
  • Horizontal flipping mode was added (press TAB key).
  • Fullscreen mode toggle key (ALT+Enter) was added.
  • Frequency table for South Africa was added.
  • Many bug fixes.
• version 0.2.0 is released. (2001/3/27)
  • New effects: EdgeTV and ShagadelicTV.
  • Some effects are fixed up to work with USB cam.
  • Video loop back device is supported. You can record or broadcast the images from EffecTV now.
• version 0.1.6 is released. (2001/3/21)
  • New effect: SpiralTV(by Sam Mertens)
  • TV tuning is now supported.(by Matthias Kleinmann)
  • Names of BaltanTV and StreakTV are exchanged. Sorry for confusion.
• version 0.1.5 is released. (2001/3/6)
  • New effect: SimuraTV
• version 0.1.4 is released. (2001/2/20)
  • Many bugfixes: wrong file name, wrong error messages, wrong initialization,...
  • double buffering mode works fine.
• version 0.1.3 is released. (2001/2/18)
  • New effect: PuzzleTV and PredatorTV.
  • New option: -norm for changing video norm.
  • Fixed a bug in Makefile.
• version 0.1.2 is released. (2001/2/15)
  • New effect: MosaicTV
• version 0.1.1 is released. (2001/2/14)