# Processing Foundation's Video Library & Video Capture on Linux

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundations-video-library-video-capture-on-linux/21983>\
**Category:** Libraries\
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundations-video-library-video-capture-on-linux/21983 "2020-06-19T01:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![villares](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/villares/32/3166_2.png) [@villares](https://discourse.processing.org/u/villares)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundations-video-library-video-capture-on-linux/21983/1 "2020-06-19T01:03:07Z")

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I was showing some students the wonderful `AsciiVideo` example that comes with the Processing IDE and it didn’t work on Linux.

I remember having this problem a few years ago and reading about a GStreamer 1.0 so I found this: [https://github.com/processing/processing-video/pull/84](https://github.com/processing/processing-video/pull/84)

Downloading the zip file, from the pull request above, video capture came back to life again, hurray! 🙂

Now, what can we do so the the library people download from the IDE works on Linux again? 🤔

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**Author:** ![monkstone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/monkstone/32/64_2.png) [@monkstone](https://discourse.processing.org/u/monkstone)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundations-video-library-video-capture-on-linux/21983/2 "2020-06-19T05:02:21Z")

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@villares, the GLVideo library has been superseded by the latest beta version of the [processing video library](https://github.com/processing/processing-video/releases/tag/r6-v2.0-beta4). But that was released almost year a go and there seems to be little progress on that front since. Note that you may need to adjust the sketches to work with the beta version of [video library](https://discourse.processing.org/t/video-capture-on-raspberrypi4-with-manjaro-arm/21523). But now it seems there may be issues with Mojave MacOS with this version. It seems to me that linux has never been a priority with the processing foundation, and progress on the video library is non existent.

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**Author:** ![villares](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/villares/32/3166_2.png) [@villares](https://discourse.processing.org/u/villares)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-foundations-video-library-video-capture-on-linux/21983/3 "2020-06-19T11:07:56Z")

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Thank you so much, @monkstone, for your reply and additional information! I really think I should be doing more ‘outreach’ work to attract skillful Linux people to the community.

Now that you mention MacOS I have a few students on MacOS Catalina who can’t even run Processing Python mode, it is a sad state. I feel bad I don’t have the time & skills to contribute with these issues.