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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

QuickTimeTcl is an extension package to Tcl/Tk that runs on Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, and Windows. It provides a high level interface to QuickTime from Tcl for both application development and scripting from console.

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.

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.

TubeKit is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers. It allows one to build one's own crawler that can crawl YouTube based on a set of seed queries and collect up to 17 different attributes.

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

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/

Tano Player is an open-source cross-platform IP TV player. It is combining Qt and Videolan libraries for simple usage. Git: http://github.com/ntadej/tano Issues Tracker: https://github.com/ntadej/tano/issues

A set of tools/code to facilitate communicating to the Hava and Vulkano network streaming video devices (http://myhava.com and http://myvulkano.com). Long term goal to create MythTV hooks (Linux) but some bits are useful elsewhere. Hope to utilize any official Vulkano SDK for Linux one is ever released. Note my Hava died in May 2013 so there will likely be no more updates for Hava devices. I bought a Vulkano to replace it and hope to have similar functionality for it soon.

A Linux subsystem supporting IEEE 1394 (aka FireWire aka i.Link). Included in Linux since 2.3.40 and available as a patch for Linux 2.2.

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.

(Media Tester) Is a Multicast Monitoring Tool This project used to Monitor Multicast Streams, Bit rate, Alarms, Reports, Video Recording, http://media-tester.sourceforge.net

A simple-minded image capture program for USB webcams based on the OmniVision Technologies OV511/OV511+ bridge chip attached to an OV7610 CCD imager.

dem2video is a hyperfast standalone console converter between Quake demos and video streams. It's based on Quake source code.

Veejay is a visual instrument and real-time video sampler. It allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling).

vgrabbj is used to grab single images from a video4linux device (e.g. webcam) and store it in a file (jpg/png).