...Best of all, CamStudio is easy to use and navigate, plus it includes a built-in Help file.
Official release builds: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/stable
Source Tree: http://p.sf.net/camstudio/mercurial
Patches sent to the dev mailing list.
Consider joining the CamStudio project by emailing one of the admins.
Java API for controling 1394 Digital Cameras (based on libdc1394: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdc1394/ for Linux, and on: CMU 1394 DC http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~iwan/1394/ for Win32). On Top of the library comes a RCP plugin and a JMF capture dev