Happy Holidays!
Or, as my firewall reported this morning:
Dec 25 04:39:18 firewall kernel: [1054241.000084] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
...
Dec 25 04:40:10 firewall kernel: [1054292.072173] raid1: sdb2: redirecting sector 3490144 to another mirror
I guess I’m getting my firewall a new hard drive for Christmas. :)
Run “gstreamer-properties“, click the “Video” tab, change Default Input Plugin to “Custom”, and add this Pipeline:
v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! vertigotv ! ffmpegcolorspace
Now when Empathy video-chatting with a friend, you can give them a headache!
Or give yourself a headache by trying it directly from the command line:
gst-launch v4l2src ! ffmpegcolorspace ! vertigotv ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
Feel free to replace “vertigotv” with any other or more of the video effects listed in “gst-inspect effectv“.
Here’s me with edgetv ! vertigotv:

As quickly pointed out by Rick, don’t install random software that isn’t in the official distribution archive unless you really know what you’re doing (and copy/pasting commands from a website doesn’t count). You’re just asking to be made part of a botnet.