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The Ultracapture project has been around or almost a year now, and it is still the best video surveillance software product available on the internet. It is even better than what private closed-source companies can provide as a video surveillance solution.

Many other projects developed by Lennox Technology are open source, Lencap is also an open source project. This is for several reasons:

1. Video capture equipment is always being developed, and the corresponding WDM drivers are changing. Users need the flexibility to make changes to Lencap to account for the change in WDM structure.... read more

BT878
BT848
SAA7113
SAA7110
TW9903

lencap
amcap
lencap.exe
amcap.exe
directshow
directx 9 sdk
video capture
video comression
IVideoWindow
IMediaControl
real-time compression
post compression
graphedit
VMR
Video Mixing Renderer
video capture pin
video preview pin
media player
video record

Watermark media player
I have been working on the watermark SDK sample for
mixing bitmaps over a movie screen. The sample has been improved on, and is available for download under this section. The sample demonstrates how to use a Video Mixing Renderer Filter connected to a render graph to show a blended bitmap over the movie.

The alpha blending values can be fully adjusted. The source is available for download as the file: water.zip.
Several modifications have been made:... read more

- Support for WDM, DirectShow - Digital Video, analogue video, Web Cam video, Digital camera video.
- FULL source code included - no crappy capture
closed source SDK libraries that inhibit your creativity
- Select the capture devices to use - use up to 4 simultaneously
- Select Audio and Video streams compression.
- Output compressed or uncompressed AVI, Windows Media content, WAVE and MPEG1Audio (MP3) formats.
- Capture directly to a file - usually 'C:\video' reserved directory.
- De-interlaced video and audio preview during capture. (May require a super-computer)
- Video preview/capture supports cropping.
- Use the audio source built into the video device or a different audio source.
- Support for closed captioning.
- Full support for TV tuners.
- Change TV channels.
- Change the video input sources including the TV Tuner, S-Video or composite video.
- Support for driver specific built-in configuration dialog boxes.
- Obtain full FPS statistics during capture.
- Support for video and audio processing
DirectShow or DirectX filters.
-Multiple capture modes:
Streaming video and audio.
-Use the Directshow still capture interface for Still images.
- Built-in dialogs allow you to easily configure the capture devices.
- Lencap can display TV Tuner, crossbars and video capture pins and audio capture properties
- Add up to 2 intermediate AX filters such as timestampers, de-interlacers and Neural network AI
FULL source code included for these AX filters (de-interlace filter comes from Dscaler)... read more

My apologies for not being able to post the source
code and application on this site - the sourceforge
file release system does not work. You can get the code and application from the links above.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/tpearson/lencapsource.zip

This document describes how to install a video surveillance system.

If you are a practical person with little or moderate
knowledge about electrical concepts, then you have
the ability to install your own cctv video system.

The world is currently in a state of panic about terrorism, and video surveillance measures in addition to other security devices are the most effective mechanism to ensure reasonable security.
A Lennox 4 port DVR card will plug into your
Windows XP based computer and provide the fundamental recording functionality for video surveillance. There are currently 390 Million Windows systems in operation worldwide - all
390 million are potentially compatible with Lennox Lencap software used in conjunction with the Lennox 4 port DVR card. This means that theoretically, up to 1.56 Billion CCD surveillance devices can be installed worldwide. The computers
are already there to do the recording, all that is required is the addition of the relevent optical recording equipment. 1.5 Billion cameras could ensure that a large area of the world gets covered and recorded geographically. On a practical level however it would be rather unfeasble to expect so many people to install their own video surveillance cameras.... read more

Whether you are a video surveillance end-user,
wholesaler or installer, Lencap is the ideal
video recording product for your needs.

Features:
Support for all WDM directshow video capture driver
Supports 4 capture channels (768 x 576)
No unrealistic specifications

Full open source:
Driver Code C++
Application Code C++
Filters C++
Interface card C++

If you are a software developer you can make your own modifications.... read more

You can choose a DVR card based on the following
chipset:

BT878
SAA7130
SAA7113
TW9903