Open Source Linux Video Capture Software

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

OBS Studio, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. Stream on Windows, Mac or Linux. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform Twitch.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Videoder is a tool that allows you to search for any video you want using a personalized search engine that combs through different streaming video services like YouTube, Vimeo, and others, so that you can then download them directly to your Android device.

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.

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

Plugins for 'DGS cuberevo/ABCOM ipbox 9000hd' digital receiver. Plugins are for DGS software.

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

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

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.

The v4lgrab project is a realtime capturing software for a Video4Linux device into an AVI file.

TV-Viewer is a frontend to watch and record TV. Designed for analog TV-cards working with ivtv, pvrusb2 or cx18 driver and others with a build-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. The Gui is written in Tk, so it does not rely on a special desktop environment.

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.

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

Myron (webcamxtra) brings native-implemented, cross-platform computer vision to Processing and Macromedia Director, allowing inexpensive commercial USB cameras to control just about anything. Keep computer vision easy and inexpensive for the people!

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

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.

This project is an easy to use web interface to record TV shows to your hard drive. It is an improved version of webvcr which adds xmltv support, nvrec support, favorites, an improved schedule viewer, and much more.