Open Source Windows Video Capture Software

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

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.

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.

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.

WebCam Eye-Tracker. GazeRecorder automatically records using ordinary webcams, where people look and what they engage with on their computer screens. In comparison with conventional eye tracking - that uses specialized technology and invites respondents to labs – GazeRecoreder is able to track people’s eyes with their own computers at home. Multiple state-of-the-art tracking algorithms communicate to identify the face, key features, eyes, iris and movements in 3D, allowing for the most accurate tracking possible, even when people move, lighting changes or the face is partially obstructed. You can also check out: GazePointer, which lets you move mouse cursor using your eyes. https://sourceforge.net/projects/gazepointer/ GazeRecorder Online Insight Platform: https://app.gazerecorder.com GazeCloudAPI real-time eye tracking API: https://api.gazerecorder.com Read more: https://gazerecorder.com

.NET c# directshow lib, capture and playback using c# and directshow

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.

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.

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.

iSpy uses your USB webcams, IP cams, capture cards, desktops and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services. Media is recorded directly to H264 mp4 files or AVI files. iSpy can stream live and recorded video over the local network, over the web using the ispyconnect portal and to mobile devices and third party software (like gadgets and MediaPortal). iSpy also includes a server project that lets you connect to USB webcams and microphones running on other computers. iSpyConnect provides subscription based SMS, MMS, Email, YouTube uploads and Remote Access. LAN usage of iSpyConnect is free.

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.

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

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.

DSPack is a set of Components and class to write Multimedia Applications using MS Direct Show and DirectX technologies. DSPack 2.3 is designed to work with DirectX 9 on Win9X, ME, 2000, and Windows XP operating systems using Delphi 5,6,7 and BCB6.

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

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

(Hidden-Capture, HC) -HC is a tool which allows you to find out what other users do on your computer in your absence. It is primary designed to be hidden and monitoring the computer activity. Hidden and auto capture from desktop, work area, active window or elements under cursor at a predefined time interval with many security and optional settings. از فعالیت کسانی که بدون اجازه شما از رایانه تان استفاده می کنند عکسبرداری کنید یک برنامه عکسبرداری کوچک و در دسترس عکسبرداری مخفی و خودکار از رومیزی (دسکتاپ)، فضای کاری، پنجره فعال یا پنجره ی زیر نشانگر موس عکسبرداری خودکار از منبعی که شما می خواهید در فاصله زمانی از پیش تعیین شده

PromptCast is a dead-simple teleprompter intended for use when recording webcam video and/or screencasts. Put your webcam under your monitor and position PromptCast right above it to make your recordings easier and give them that professional touch.

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.

A Windows NT/2K driver for ZR36067/57 based cards (i.e. Iomega Buz). A supplemental MJPEG codec can be found at the Media XW project.

This perl script downloads as many videos from Youtube as you want. It reads a text file containing the all of the urls to the video(s). You can use it to easily download 1 video or 100 videos.

The Wis-Go7007 is a Driver for the Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U. ConvertX is a USB-Box that digitized analog videos. The operation is simple: You can take the command line or the GUI (Gogo Mini). For more information download the "readme.txt".