Music visualization

Le Biniou is a music visualization / VJing tool

Le Biniou works with music, voice, ambient sounds, whatever acoustic source you choose.

When you run Le Biniou it gives an evolutionary rendering of the sound you are playing.

You are given two options to run Le Biniou: You can manage entirely the sequences and choose your own series of pictures from the default library, your colour scales, the kind of alteration you want to apply or you can let Le Biniou’s artificial intelligence run on its own.

Forget the old visualizations you are familiar with, discover a new multidimensional – spatial and chromatic – way of comprehending music and sounds for either artistic, recreational or didactic purposes.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Rendering and output:
    • Work with any number of plugins/layers at a time.
    • Display your final output fullscreen across a dedicated window.
    • Record any video stream directly to disk as MP4.
    • Capture any video image directly to disk as PNG.
    • Broadcast video streams as RTMP or HLS, or to a V4L2 loopback device.
  • Media playback:
    • Play any video type supported by FFmpeg.
    • Video rescaling using Libswscale.
  • Supported media types:
    • All image types supported by Image Magick.
    • Live cameras.
  • Connectivity and automation:
    • REST API and WebSocket communications powered by Ulfius.
  • Visual effects:
    • 100+ total plugins.
    • 40+ plugins reacting to sound.
    • Quickly save and restore effects presets.
    • Possibility to select favorite plugins.
  • Mixing and composition:
    • Per layer pixel operations.
    • Band-pass filter to apply ‘green screen’ transparency effect for e.g. videos or webcams.
    • Built-in preview window.
  • Audio acquisition:
    • Live:
      • JACKAudio.
      • PipeWire.
      • ALSA.
      • PulseAudio.
      • Open Sound System.
      • Sndio.

Website: biniou.lenain.info
Support: GitLab Code Repository
Developer: Olivier Girondel
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Le Biniou in action
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Le Biniou is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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