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FreeJ is a vision mixer: an instrument for realtime video manipulation used in the fields of dance teather, veejaying, medical visualisation and TV. Its development started in 2001 and continued actively through the years. FreeJ lets you interact with multiple layers of video, filtered by effect chains and then mixed together. Controllers can be scripted for keyboard, midi and joysticks, to manipulate images, movies, live cameras, particle generators, text scrollers, flash animations and more. It is written as a multi-threaded engine that runs efficiently on modern multi-core computers, where the resulting video mix can be shown on multiple and remote screens, encoded into a movie and streamed live to the internet. FreeJ can be controlled locally or remotely, also from multiple places at the same time; it can be automated via javascript to be operated via MIDI, Joysticks, wiimotes, mices and keyboards. FreeJ is also a library, fairly documented and usable in C++, with full bindings to python, while parsing scripts is done using spidermonkey or the mozjs interpreter in XUL. Screenshots Below are some examples of media produced with FreeJ, hopefully soon we won't need java or flash to show them on your browser. FreeJ is portable and 100% free and open source software (GNU GPL v3), it could be made a browser plugin and what not. First some images: Now a cool video done by VJ Jahruhn using FreeJ :) blip.tv accepts upload of videos done with FreeJ (ogg/theora), the mozilla embeded player shouldn't be flash, please contact us if you can help making a freej plugin for firefox ;) Here an example of live stream, when running: This player is java (itheora) offered as a frontend for live streams hosted by giss.tv

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