Open Source Still Capture Software

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

CamDesk is a free, open source, desktop webcam widget, that was created as home surveillance application. Although others have used it for demonstrations even with CamStudio, and QuickTime Player for screen casting.

qStopMotion is a application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

Krut Computer Recorder is a screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make video tutorials or record games. It could also be used to record streaming video and audio.

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.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

Canon EOS class remote control utility for 300D, 350D, 30D, 20D and 5D. It is possible to control more of Canon cameras in the same time up to six cameras attached. Multican allows scripted remote control of multiple cameras.

An application for capturing images to generate timelapse videos, built on gPhoto2 and wxWidgets libraries.

A tool for finding missing or corrupt images in a sequence. Also generates basic statistics from Exif data. Targeting time-lapse and render-farm users when using post-processing tools such as After Effects.

Flash Extractor allows you to view, convert to, and extract from Flash files. It is essentially an elaborate combination of multiple open source libraries and applications. For details, please see: http://flashextractor.sourceforge.net/

Stop-motion movie production software for OS X. FrameByFrame enables you to create QuickTime movies from pictures taken with any camera/webcam connected to your Mac, including built-in iSight cameras.

SlickSlice is a bash script powered by ImageMagick and Mplayer tools that creates a timeline representation of a videofile - one big image with screenshot thumbnails taken at automatically set periods of time.

Using JVigilancia you can use a cheap webcam to remotely watch your home or business. You can instruct the program to perform several actions when movement is detected in the image, even to send you an e-mail at this moment with attached pictures.

A free WebCam image refresh/viewer program made in Flash ActionScript. A quick alternative and replacement to the now obsolete: AnfyCam, NetworkCam16, JavaCam, and other applet-based viewers that stopped working because of a JavaRE update in mid-2007.

This is the Solaris USB camera drivers project and it will first target on the OV511 cameras based on the Linux ov511 driver. NEW: USB Video Class on Solaris. See the project forum for updates!

VideoMonitor is a comprehensive webcam acquisition/publishing and motion capture utility for Windows. It supports FTP, HTTP, captioning, resampling, and various image filters.

Fully automated segmentation of moving objects from a stationary scene using pre-stored scene images. Needs no external parameters or settings; all parameters are derived internally from the pre-stored images. Implemented using OpenCV framework.

This Is a stop-motion animation tool for beginners and people that are thight on money.

Non-blocking C++ (GCC) CMUCam2+ & CMUCam Turret control library. Interfaces using USB to camera. Currently controls tilt, pan and frame capture. Easily exhanced/expanded for other functions.

This source code implements an hardware intervalometer for Nikon cameras. It interfaces the camera the same way as an ML-L3 infrared remote control but instead of having the single functionality of triggering the camera upon the press of the button, it also provides timed shooting for timelapse photography. This source code is accompanied with an application schematic diagram to help in the construction of a complete unit using the PIC12F683 microcontroller and this firmware.

Refactory based on CamStudio 2.51b1, the depended libraries are added.

dvd-homevideo is a project that I developed because take quite a bit of home video and I was looking for a simple, quick way to transform the video on my dv camcorder into a fully functional DVD including a menu with optional background image and music.

Flipbook is made to flip a sequence of images and allow you to study the resulting animation frame by frame. That's it, pure and simple. I will use Flipbook as the glue between my digital stills camera and a final animation. It will import JPEGs or PNGs

FrameShoot is a Windows program written in Python to create stop-motion animations with your webcam. Windows binaries and Python sources available.

Gawker creates time-lapse movies using an iSight/DV camera. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with two locations side-by-side.