Nageru is a live video mixer, based around the standard M/E workflow.
+Futatabi is a multicamera slow motion video server.
-Features:
+Nageru features:
- High performance on modest hardware (720p60 with two input streams
on my Thinkpad X240[1]); almost all pixel processing is done on the GPU.
- High output quality; Lanczos3 scaling, subpixel precision everywhere,
white balance adjustment, mix of 16- and 32-bit floating point
- for intermediate calculations, dithered output.
+ for intermediate calculations, dithered output, optional 10-bit input
+ and output support.
- Proper sound support: Syncing of multiple unrelated sources through
- high-quality resampling, freely selectable input, cue out for headphones,
- dynamic range compression, simple EQ (low-cut), level meters conforming
- to EBU R128.
+ high-quality resampling, multichannel mixing with separate effects
+ per-bus, cue out for headphones, dynamic range compression,
+ three-band graphical EQ (pluss a fixed low-cut), level meters conforming
+ to EBU R128, automation via MIDI controllers.
- Theme engine encapsulating the design demands of each individual
event; Lua code is responsible for setting up the pixel processing
pipelines, running transitions etc., so that the visual look is
consistent between operators.
+ - HTML rendering (through Chromium Embedded Framework), for high-quality
+ and flexible overlay or other graphics.
+
+ - Comprehensive monitoring through Prometheus metrics.
+
[1] For reference, that is: Core i7 4600U (dualcore 2.10GHz, clocks down
to 800 MHz after 30 seconds due to thermal constraints), Intel HD Graphics
4400 (ie., without the extra L4 cache from Iris Pro), single-channel DDR3 RAM
(so 12.8 GB/sec theoretical memory bandwidth, shared between CPU and GPU).
-Nageru is in beta stage. It currently needs:
+Nageru currently needs:
- An Intel processor with Intel Quick Sync, or otherwise some hardware
H.264 encoder exposed through VA-API. Note that you can use VA-API over
DRM instead of X11, to use a non-Intel GPU for rendering but still use
- Quick Sync (by giving e.g. “--va-display /dev/dri/renderD128”).
+ Quick Sync (Nageru does this automatically for you if needed).
- Two or more Blackmagic USB3 or PCI cards, either HDMI or SDI.
The PCI cards need Blackmagic's own drivers installed. The USB3 cards
- are driven through the “bmusb” driver embedded in bmusb/, using libusb-1.0.
- You want a recent kernel and libusb-1.0; see below.
+ are driven through the “bmusb” driver, using libusb-1.0. If you want
+ zerocopy USB, you need libusb 1.0.21 or newer, as well as a recent
+ kernel (4.6.0 or newer). Zerocopy USB helps not only for performance,
+ but also for stability. You need at least version 0.7.4.
- Movit, my GPU-based video filter library (https://movit.sesse.net).
- You will need at least version 1.3.1.
+ You will need at least version 1.5.2.
- Qt 5.5 or newer for the GUI.
+ - QCustomPlot for the histogram display in the frame analyzer.
+
- libmicrohttpd for the embedded web server.
- x264 for encoding high-quality video suitable for streaming to end users.
- - ffmpeg for muxing, and for encoding audio. You will need at least
- version 3.1.
+ - FFmpeg for muxing, and for encoding audio. You will need at least
+ version 4.0.
- Working OpenGL; Movit works with almost any modern OpenGL implementation.
Nageru has been tested with Intel on Mesa (you want 11.2 or newer, due
to critical stability bugfixes), and with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers.
- AMD's proprietary drivers (fglrx) are known not to work due to driver bugs;
- I am in contact with AMD to try to get this resolved.
+ The status of AMD's proprietary drivers is currently unknown.
- libzita-resampler, for resampling sound sources so that they are in sync
between sources, and also for oversampling for the peak meter.
- - Lua, for driving the theme engine.
+ - LuaJIT, for driving the theme engine. You will need at least version 2.1.
+ - libjpeg, for encoding MJPEG streams when VA-API JPEG support is not
+ available.
-If on Debian stretch or something similar, you can install everything you need
-with:
+ - Zita-resampler, for adjusting audio to be in sync with video.
+
+ - Protocol Buffers (protobuf), for storing various forms of settings and
+ state.
- git submodule update --init
- apt install qtbase5-dev qt5-default pkg-config libmicrohttpd-dev \
- libusb-1.0-0-dev liblua5.2-dev libzita-resampler-dev libva-dev \
- libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev \
- libmovit-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libx264-dev
+ - Meson, for building.
-Exceptions as of June 2016:
+ - Optional: CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), for HTML graphics.
+ If you build without CEF, the HTMLInput class will not be available from
+ the theme. You can get binary downloads of CEF from
- - You need libusb 1.0.21 or newer (not yet released; you will need to
- use git) if you want zerocopy USB. Zerocopy USB helps not only for
- performance, but also for stability.
+ http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html
- - Nageru depends on an avformat API for marking block boundaries in the
- muxed byte stream that didn't enter ffmpeg before version 3.1.
+ Simply download the right build for your platform (the “minimal” build
+ is fine) and add -Dcef_dir=<path>/cef_binary_X.XXXX.XXXX.XXXXXXXX_linux64
+ on the meson command line (substituting X with the real version as required).
+Futatabi also needs:
+
+ - A fast GPU with OpenGL 4.5 support (GTX 1080 or similar recommended for
+ best quality at HD resolutions, although 950 should work).
+
+ - SQLite, for storing state.
+
+
+If on Debian buster or something similar, you can install everything you need
+with:
+
+ apt install qtbase5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev qt5-default libqcustomplot-dev \
+ pkg-config libmicrohttpd-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libluajit-5.1-dev \
+ libzita-resampler-dev libva-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev \
+ libswscale-dev libavresample-dev libmovit-dev libegl1-mesa-dev \
+ libasound2-dev libx264-dev libbmusb-dev protobuf-compiler \
+ libprotobuf-dev libsqlite3-dev meson libjpeg-dev
+
+Exceptions as of December 2018:
+
+ - Debian does not carry CEF (but it is optional). You can get experimental
+ (and not security-supported) CEF Debian packages built for unstable at
+ http://storage.sesse.net/cef/, and then configure Nageru with
+
+ meson obj -Dcef_dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cef -Dcef_build_type=system -Dcef_no_icudtl=true
+
The patches/ directory contains a patch that helps zita-resampler performance.
It is meant for upstream, but was not in at the time Nageru was released.
It is taken to be by Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com> (ie., my ex-work
email), and under the same license as zita-resampler itself.
-To start it, just hook up your equipment, type “make” and then “./nageru”.
+Nageru and Futatabi use Meson to build. For a default build (building both),
+type
+
+ meson obj && cd obj && ninja
+
+To start Nageru, just hook up your equipment, and then type “./nageru”.
+For Futatabi documentation, please see https://nageru.sesse.net/doc/.
+
It is strongly recommended to have the rights to run at real-time priority;
it will make the USB3 threads do so, which will make them a lot more stable.
(A reasonable hack for testing is probably just to run it as root using sudo,
If you have a fast CPU (typically a quadcore desktop; most laptops will spend
most of their CPU on running Nageru itself), you can use x264 for the outgoing
stream instead of Quick Sync; it is much better quality for the same bitrate,
-and also has proper bitrate controls. Simple add --http-x264-video on the
+and also has proper bitrate controls. Simply add --http-x264-video on the
command line. (You may also need to add something like "--x264-preset veryfast",
since the default "medium" preset might be too CPU-intensive, but YMMV.)
The stream saved to disk will still be the Quick Sync-encoded stream, as it is
to throw or cast. (I also later learned that it could mean to face defeat or
give up, but that's not the intended meaning.)
+The name “Futatabi” comes from the Japanese adverb 再び (futatabi), which means
+“again” or “for the second time”.
+
Nageru's home page is at https://nageru.sesse.net/, where you can also find
-contact information and link to the latest version.
+contact information, full documentation and link to the latest version.
Legalese: TL;DR: Everything is GPLv3-or-newer compatible, and see
-Intel's copyright license at h264encode.h.
+Intel's copyright license at quicksync_encoder.h.
Nageru is Copyright (C) 2015 Steinar H. Gunderson <steinar+nageru@gunderson.no>.
Portions Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>.
Portions Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org>.
Portions Copyright (c) 2007-2013 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
+Portions Copyright (C) 2019 Yngve Molnes.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-Portions of h264encode.h and h264encode.cpp:
+Portions of quicksync_encoder.h and quicksync_encoder.cpp:
Copyright (c) 2007-2013 Intel Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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