brunoherbelin / vimix

Live Video Mixer
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Status of / Versioning of Vimix with Linux/Ubuntu #67

Closed DarrellJonsson closed 3 months ago

DarrellJonsson commented 1 year ago

I'm still actively using GLMixer, having almost 7 years of sessions built with it, and continuously using for live events.

As I understand it GLMixer on Ubuntu is only compatible through Ubuntu version 19.10, which leaves my primary video art workhorse limited to 19.10 indefinitely.

I would like to simultaneously work with both Vimix and GLMixer and have a couple of questions.

Please advise

brunoherbelin commented 1 year ago

Hey! I hope vimix can soon become a better replacement to GLMixer for you :) !!

Is Vimix being maintained as a Snap application compatible with Ubuntu 19.10 ?

Yes, snap of vimix currently works with the Core 18.04 of snap ; this means it can definitely be installed on Ubuntu 19.10

What version of Ubuntu is Vimix currently maintained on.

I am running Ubuntu 22.10 for development. I however use basic libraries that do not evolve much. When using features that are from new versions, I try to keep backward compatibility.

For example : the snap is on a core from Ubuntu 18.04; there gstreamer is a very old version; thus some new codec will not work, or the SRT network streaming protocol did not exist at the time ; these features will not be available, but overall vimix will work.

The better alternative is to compile your flatpak on your own system : flatpak is available since Ubuntu 18.04, so building your own pre-release flatpak of vimix should be working!

alexmyczko commented 1 year ago

Well there's also the official packages copied from Debian in Ubuntu: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=vimix (just uploaded 0.8.0 to Debian experimental)