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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tibia Movie Player. Play and Record TibiaMovie .tmv movies.

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.

Coriander is a full-featured GUI for IEEE1394, IIDC-compliant digital cameras.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

TacitPixel is a scalable C++ framework for building application prototypes for interactive collaborative VR/AR applications. It provides a number of features that make prototyping fast and portable. TacitPixel is the successor of the TAP and Twisted Pair engines.

VidCapture is a video capture library for web cameras, focusing on ease of use for image processing projects. It may be used in commercial and non-commercial software.

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.