Open Source C++ Video Capture Software

Do you need quick capture and encoding capabilities for video on your desktop? VirtualDub is a free, Open Source solution specifically designed for that purpose. VirtualDub might lack the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video in return. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.

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

CamStudio records screen and audio activity on your computer to create AVI video files and turns them into bandwidth-friendly, streaming Flash videos (SWF). CamStudio also lets you add screen captions or video annotations to your recordings through anti-aliased images, or by producing a Webcam movie of yourself (screen in screen) on your desktop. And CamStudio comes with its own lossless codec that produces crystal clear results with a much smaller filesize compared some popular codecs, like Microsoft Video 1. Additional options include cursor controls, the ability to record an entire screen or a portion of it, and selections for output quality. 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.

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.

This software writes short movies with your digital DSLR camera Canon (R) directly to computer. The camera must have LiveView feature to work, like in Canon EOS 450D for example. The Program has preview, Av, Tv and WB control.

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.

Dorgem is a webcam capture program for Windows

Virtual VCR is a DirectShow video capture application that allows you to capture Audio and Video to your hard drive in the AVI file format. Small DirectShow Video capture application designed to work with WDM drivers.

A webcam application. It supports video recording (avi uncompressed format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams.

A universal control panel for Video for Linux Two (V4L2) devices.

TV Scheduling service that allows timed captures of Digital TV to your hard drive using a digital tuner device. (DVB-T BDA)

Universal Video Capture driver for WinMe,Win2000,WinXP and Win98SE for Bt848/Bt878 based capture cards

Webcam application for windows, encoding streaming data with video and sound into Flash Live Video FLV using encoder ffMpeg for broadcasting live on the web .

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

QuickPlay brings you closer to the world, by connecting you with YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Share your favorite YouTube videos with all your friends on Facebook and Twitter, or just listen to some music.

Software for recording, editing and publishing demo and tutorial videos.

The avcap-library is a cross-API, cross-platform simple and easy to use C++ video capture library. It's aim is to provide a unified API (currently for Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X) to capture video from appropriate hardware.

A real-time recorder and compressor of audio and video input for the Windows platforms, using MFC, DirectX, FFMPEG and MPEG4IP. The program is capable of generating avi and mp4 files and streaming MPEG-4 audio and video via Apple Darwin Streaming Server.

Taksi is a video capture/screen capture tool for recording 3D graphics applications (such as games). It can capture almost any windows application using DirectX, OpenGL, or GDI and create an AVI file using any installed VFW codec or still frames in PNG.

Webcam, camera, scanner or other real-time video capture device FTP publishing. Webcam Publisher supports png, gif, jpg, and avi via FTP or the built in webserver. Overlay text, images, watetermarks, time stamps, and more. Multiple webcams are supported.

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/

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).

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

Do you worry if Fraps (or other computer video capture tool) is giving you accurate colors? Do you wish you had some kind of standard, recordable (DirectX 9) source with known colors? Well, you're in luck, that's just what this is. **NOTE: monitor calibration software is known to alter capture colors** See the first screenshot for a guide to what's in this test pattern. It also includes some rare & unusual utilities; see below.

Fwink is a webcam application for Windows. It takes still images from your camera and uploads them to an FTP server. You have the option to add effects to your images.