Software:Libvisual

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Short description: Abstraction library
Libvisual
Original author(s)Dennis Smit
Developer(s)Chong Kai Xiong et al.
Stable release
0.5.0 / March 18, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-03-18)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeAPI
LicenseLPGL-2.1-or-later
Websitelibvisual.org

Libvisual is an abstraction library that fits between applications and audio visualisation plugins.

Audio visualization plugins or programs that create visuals, depend on a player or something else; basically, there was no general framework that enabled application developers to easily access interesting audio visualization plugins. Libvisual wanted to change this by providing an interface towards plugins and applications; through this interface, applications can access plugins. Since the drawing is done by the application, it also enables the developer to draw the visual anywhere desired.

Currently libvisual is mainly focused on Unix-like systems including FreeBSD, Linux, and NetBSD.

The goal is to make libvisual a cross-platform audio visualisation framework.

Other examples of audio visualization programs are Winamp Advanced Visualization Studio and MilkDrop.

Libvisual is released under the LPGL-2.1-or-later and included in every major linux distribution.

Media Players that support libvisual:

Libraries supporting libvisual:

  • Gstreamer
  • Gmerlin

History

  • Libvisual 0.5.0 due by mid 2014
  • Libvisual 0.4.0 2006-03-20
  • Libvisual 0.2.0 2005-02-08
  • Libvisual 0.1.7 2004-10-14
  • Libvisual 0.1.6 2004-09-08
  • Libvisual 0.1.5 2004-06-28
  • Libvisual 0.1.4 2004-06-16
  • Libvisual 0.1.3 2004-05-27

See also

  • List of free software for audio

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