Open Source C Video Capture Software

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

libdc1394 is a library that provides a high level programming interface for application developers who wish to control and capture streams from IEEE 1394 based cameras that conform to the 1394-based Digital Camera Specifications (also known as the IIDC or DCAM Specifications). libdc1394 also supports some USB cameras that are IIDC compliant. Besides capture and control, libdc1394 provides a full set of colour space conversion functions (including RAW decoding), vendor specific functions and direct camera register access. Keywords: ieee1394, IIDC, DCAM, firewire, USB, machine vision, computer vision, video capture, library

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 .

tvpvrd - (TV Personal Video Recorder Daemon). A Unix server/daemon to make scheduled recordings of TV broadcasts using one or multiple Video capture cards with optional automatic transcoding (using ffmpeg)

This project develops video conferencing and VoIP applications for Mac OS X. XMeeting is based on the work of the OpenH323 project which provides the libraries for H.323 and SIP support.

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

A collection of tools and scripts for processing images and video from attached USB and FireWire webcams on Mac OS X. To start things off, there is a command-line tool for capturing webcam images.

libvidcap is a cross-platform library for capturing video from webcams and other video capture devices.

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.

Stantor is a SCADA for home automation/domotic project. It drives : k8061-K8055(USB), K8000(I2C), Arduino Mega and Uno, X10, 1-Wire, electricity meters, Webcam (motion), infrared remote controls. It uses WEB browser, smartphone, xHTML, SOAP, Websocket, HTML5 Apache, mySQL, PHP, javascript and Ajax. Stantor allows control of electrical equipments like boilers, shutters, lamps, pumps, etc...connected to the 220V/110 VAC. Gathering information of various kinds such as temperature, light, switches, position sensors is provided by Stantor permanently in real time. Through the use of management system MySQL database, Stantor offers automation features customizable tasks. In particular it allows cyclical, calendar and planned tasks, but it can alert when an outbreak event (mail,sms,..).It also has the ability to launch computer program for specific uses.

VCR is a non-interactive text-console video recorder for video4linux supported capture cards. It can real-time encode video using popular Windows codecs like DivX ;-) etc.

TV software package for viewing TV, Teletext (TTX), Electronic Programme Guide (EPG), recording movies and hearing radio with BT8x8 based TV cards on the Windows plattform.