Open Source Unix Shell Video Capture Software

Gv4l is a Gui v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. It can record in both encoded format, such as DivX, or in raw format.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

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.

Professional digital video archiving system solution, developed and used by the Austrian national audio/video archive, designed to handle vast amounts of video content from ingest to long-term storage, including analysis, transcoding and metadata.

XdTV allows you to watch, record & stream TV. It interacts with AleVT & Nxtvepg & supports the bttv, bktr & dvb APIs. It contains some deinterlacing filters and record video with various containers (AVI, MPEG, OGG..) and many codecs (FFMpeg, XviD, Ogg..)

ChronicTV is a collection of shell and php scripts that manages ffmpeg and xawtv to create a web based TV studio. You can stream live content, archived movies, change channels, and inputs on capture card. PostNuke module included.

Traffic Sucks. CamGet is a bash script to download images from area traffic camera websites (such as http://www.dpwt.com). This script also adds timestamps to each image, converts image to desired format, and attempts to 'normalize' each image.

This project aims to have a suite of scripts and GUI for capturing, converting and burning DV movies to CD (dvzeec) or DVD (dvzeec-dvd).

TV_ENCODE! is a textual front end for MEncoder which allows the user to record live TV from NTSC, PAL, ATSC (or any future form) to industry standard MPEG-4 Video with MP3 Audio (DivX Compatible). Support for multiple capture sources.

Digital TV Recorder - PVR. ViMS - Video Mnemonic System. Schedule your TV-recordings remote, using a web-interface. Never miss a show even if you forgot to set the timer before you left your house, you just need webaccess to your ViMS-server.

Yet Another set of MEncoder Scripts; a source package of highly configurable, easy to use, and effective scripts for ripping DVD / VCD video (or transcoding other formats) to industry standard MPEG4 video format with MP3 audio (DivX Compatible).

capturetv is a simple bash script which simplifies the process of capturing TV via MEncoder. The script also optionally calculates the optimal bitrate depending on how many minutes you want to burn to CD and burns it.

furious_tv is a set of tools to take XMLTV TV listings and enable a UNIX system to automatically record programs off of a TV card. It is written in C and uses a SAX parser for maximum speed and efficiency. ftv_gnome is the GNOME interface to the PVR.

Unmaintained and deprecated. Set of shell scripts to make a TV recording with lavrec using webvcrplus (or something else), making it easy to do unattended capturing in HQ MJPEG and converting it to HQ mpeg-4.

Graphic interface of movgrab script. Realized featuring Matteo Seclì http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gD7_3Mghlo

Bash script for doing timeshift TV (pause, fast forward and rewind while watching TV) using limited resources. Developed for analog capture devices compatible with v4l2, including digital television hybrid cards (Not all v4l2 devices are checked, tested with bttv, saa7134, TV hybrid cards cx88 and USB em28xx). You can also try the server side (same script) that works like a timeshift provider of captured files for a local network. Usage: Install transcode* and xawtv, configure OSS sound capture (if you use pulseaudio then install oss-compat [deb] and libasound2-plugins [deb] or alsa-plugins-pulse [rpm] packages) and enable "repeat playlist" on your video player, then: ./timeshift.sh [OPTION1 value] [OPTION2 value] ... ./timeshift.sh -h for help *Be sure transcode is compiled with a working import_v4l2.so plugin.

Udrec_suite provides a networked video recorder for the dbox 2 under neutrino. It is targeted to be easily installed, configured and executed under Linux and is fully transparent to the user infront of the dbox. Includes dvdwizard for DVD-generation

virtPresenter is a lecture recording framework, which automates the production and distribution of a lecture recording. The framework consist of independent parts for recording, post-production, management, distribution and playback of the recordings.

wVDR is a smart Video Disk Recorder using "vcr" by Bram Avontuur. It features programming the schedule by wishes (e.g. "every movie with actor XY") in addition to conventional "channel, start time and duration"

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.

The main objetive for the xivtv project is to provide an easy gui to use the ivtv driver based tools.

This is a simple but powerful bash script to create stop motion and time-lapse videos from an Internet URL or an attached video device (see examples). Simply point it at an image source, set the capture frequency, and starting recording stillframes. You can view your stillframes as a video, or convert to a true video format at any point. Bad frames can be browsed/removed with the operating system file browser.