Transport
Frame step, jog, shuttle, pre-roll and tracking offset.
SMPTE / EBU timecodeVX–4 / Archival playback console
A player for old formats.
- Formats
- 48
- Years
- 1956–04
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Telemetry
- None
A free, open-source player for 48 old professional video formats, from 2-inch quad to Digital Betacam.
Deck A / Program
Harbour, Early Light
Source A
01:00:00:00
BETACAM SP
625/50i
VX–014
PROXY / 10-BIT
TRACKING +0.2
PLAY
Program monitor / 4:3
10-bit reference
VX–4 · 0482
01:00
01:03
01:07
1.00×
Tape time
01:00:00:00
25 fps · non-drop
Servo lock
PLAYING
Engine local
0 telemetry
TC locked
GPL-3.0 · VX 1.6.2
Archived with care
Fig. 01 The VX–4 screening console. Every control is local; every frame carries its source.
Playback and inspection
Built for the work.
Keeps the original raster, frame rate, colour and timecode. Every reel keeps its source, transfer and condition notes.
Monitoring
Waveform, vectorscope, RGB parade, false colour and safe-area guides.
10-bit monitoring pathSource notes
Inspection reports, checksums, transfer notes and deck history.
SHA-256 manifestsLocal by default
No accounts, cloud, licence keys or telemetry. Everything stays on this machine.
Offline by default
Monitoring path
FIG. 02 / REFERENCE CHAIN
01RF / HeadFM carrier
02TBCTime base
03DecodeProfile-aware
04ColourRec. 601 / 709
05Display10-bit reference
Head-switch blanking honoured
Chroma bandwidth mapped per profile
VX / 1.6.2
Formats
Formats and carriers.
48 professional video formats, organised by carrier, raster and era.
Format
Atlas
Rev. 06
Atlas
Rev. 06
Format details update with the player. Each entry records signal, deck and condition.
Read the profile schema1956 — 2004
A format timeline.
From 2-inch quadruplex in 1956 to HDCAM SR in 2003.
48 years of professional video
47 profiles in the atlas · 1 optical outlier
Open source / GPL-3.0
Free and open source.
VESTIGE is free software under GPL-3.0. No accounts, licence keys or telemetry. Download the source, build it, fork it.
The player should be built to last.
VESTIGE
v1.6.2
“Silver Halide”
- Released
- 14 Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0-only
- Source
- ≈ 87 KB
- Platforms
- macOS · Windows · Linux
$ git clone https://github.com/vestige-labs/vx-console.git
$ cd vx-console
$ make release
→ built vx 1.6.2 in 41.8s
→ 48 profiles · 0 telemetry · GPL-3.001
Free to use. No trial, no seat limits, no sales calls.
02
Open source. Format data, decode paths and UI are in one repository.
03
Yours to keep. Fork it, audit it, run it offline.
NO ACCOUNTS
NO LICENCE KEYS
NO TELEMETRY
GPL-3.0-ONLY · 2026