LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It uses commonly available tools , so it should work on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix.

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet has many advanced features. LiVES is part editor, part VJ tool. It will run under Linux, BSD and UNIX. See http://lives.sourcefourge.net.

Prior to lasering, live lasers are generated with data applied to the lettercopy to check for accuracy.

pl. of Life.

Alive; living; with life.

In some games this measures how long you have left to play. The number of lives or a life meter gives you an idea of how many mistakes you can make before needing to restart from given areas.