Open Source BSD Video Capture Software

Matroska is an open standard audio/video container format. Visit our homepage at http://www.matroska.org

Mjpeg tools is a suite of programs which support video capture, editing, playback, and compression to MPEG of MJPEG video. Edit, play and compression software is hardware independent. Capture supports MJPEG hardware (Buz,DC10+ etc). and V4l2 devices.

Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and digital video recorder for Linux. It supports DVB-C(2), DVB-T(2), DVB-S(2), ATSC, SAT>IP, HDHomeRun and IPTV inputs, as well as HTTP, HTSP (own protocol) and SAT>IP outputs.

AcidRip is an automated front end for MPlayer/Mencoder written in Perl, using Gtk2::Perl for a graphical interface. Makes encoding a DVD just one button click!

See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/media/pci/ivtv and https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ivtv Old sites were http://ivtvdriver.org/ and http://ivtv.writeme.ch/ Old description: The primary goal of this project is to provide an Open Source driver for the Hauppauge 250/350 series of MPEG video capture cards and other cards based on the iCompression iTVC15.

NOTE: Project migrated to GitHub in Dec 2020! See https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

PortMedia was created to develop and share cross-platform, open-source I/O libraries for digital media including MIDI, video, and audio. Only a few things were released under the PortMedia umbrella. These are now hosted by the github.com/Portmidi/ project, where you can find the lastest versions of PortMidi, portsmf (Standard MIDI File support and more), and see github.com/rbdannenberg/scorealign for MIDI and/or Audio score alignment.

A fast closed captions extractor for MPEG and H264 files. Supports DVD, HDTV transport streams, Replay TV. Use this to create .srt (subtitles) files for your TV captures, have transcripts so you can edit subtitles, etc. This project has moved to its own domain: https://www.ccextractor.org Files in sourceforge are left for archival purposes, but new releases will be available from ccextractor.org.

TaniDVR is a CLI tool for managing and capturing video from Linux-based OEM surveillance DVRs which use DVR-IP protocol (p: 37777/TCP). It has been tested with Intelbras DVRs and is expected to work with brands such as DVR365, Q-See, GWave and other.

Camsource is a modularized and multithreaded daemon to provide various clients with frames grabbed from a video4linux device. It uses a plugin system to make it possble to use the captured image stream for different purposes at the same time.

xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam.

thoggen is a DVD backup program based on GStreamer/Gtk+. It encodes into ogg/theora video files, but additional formats (avi, matroska + mpeg4/xvid/mp2/mp3) are planned for the future. thoggen aims to provide a clean and easy to use interface.

Flash Extractor allows you to view, convert to, and extract from Flash files. It is essentially an elaborate combination of multiple open source libraries and applications. For details, please see: http://flashextractor.sourceforge.net/

Superseded by the GSPCA driver in the mainline kernel. Development now at http://linuxtv.org/ [Formerly: Linux device driver for SPCA50X based USB cameras (Intel PC Camera Pro)]

tvtime is a realtime video deinterlacer. It displays video at full 59.94fps for NTSC or 50fps for PAL for high visual quality and smoothness of motion.

The Integrating Vision Toolkit (IVT) is a powerful and fast C++ computer vision library with an easy-to-use object-oriented architecture. It offers its own multi-platform GUI toolkit. OpenCV is integrated optionally. Website: http://ivt.sourceforge.net

The VideoWhisper Video Recorder allows site users to record webcam videos easily from website pages, including high definition recordings. This can be use on various sites to implement online features like: + video sharing, on demand video content + video messaging, video email + video content on member profiles, video teasers, video questionnaires + video comments for online posts and items, video discussions, video forums Video Recorder application key features + 100% web based webcam recording + Record, Stop, Preview, Approve, Discard and Retry + HD h264 support (customizable quality settings) + FLV that can be played over RTMP / HTTP + RTMP player included (& more integrations) + iPhone, iPad playback with HTML5 (conversion required) + JPEG high quality snapshots PHP Webcam Recorder : + Record from Webcam + Preview + Browse Videos + JwPlayer support + JPG Snapshots + HTML5 video conversion for iPhone, iPad, iPod

FFmpeg is an audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.

Professional digital video archiving system solution, developed and used by the Austrian national audio/video archive, designed to handle vast amounts of video content from ingest to long-term storage, including analysis, transcoding and metadata.

Port of the linux sms1xxx (siano) driver for FreeBSD >= 7.x. It is based on Raaf's dvbusb driver and currently supports the 'Terratec Cinergy Piranha' and 'Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick' USB sticks.

Python application to scan DataMatrix barcodes using webcam. Uses libdmtx as backend decoder and pyGTK for display. Intended as a conference badge scanning application, but flexible enough to allow other applications.

A Linux USB driver for 3Com's HomeConnect(tm) WebCam

This is a Java wrapper for Ffmpeg. The JMF (Java Media Framework) plugins system lets one use JMStudio or other application to play H.263/rfc2190 streams. Support for H.263+ and MPEG-4 is currently under test, please contact us for further information.

Video4Linux Webcam app -- Uses Imlib2 to libfame for multiple image output formats and 'time-lapse' MPEG video recordings. Has a host of other neat options, too...

shalVideo is a Video Record Programming for KDE 3. It uses mencoder an atd for the grabbing feature, and v4l driver for tv.