Open Source Still Capture Software

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

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.

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.

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.

Various plug-ins and extensions to the SageTV, SageRecorder and SageClient applications from Frey Technologies (www.sage.tv)

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.

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/

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

HyperEngine-AV, Arboretum Systems' award winning video editing software is now free, complete with full source code. Users can capture, arrange, edit and process video, audio and text in a free-form, trackless document, to create movies and slide shows

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.

VideoTools is software for video surveillance that can record, analyse and replay images from webcams and network cameras. It can use direcly-attached webcams or network cameras that provide JPEG or H.264 video streams over HTTP or RTP. VideoTools runs on Linux and BSD Unix.

This is a J2ME implementation of barcode capture and recognition for EAN barcodes using a cellphone camera. It is a port of ReadBarC to J2ME, with improvements in processing speed to compensate for the slower Java and the addition of EAN barcode support.

A modular and user expandable motion detection tool which works with (USB) webcams and IP cameras. Includes an automatic motion heat map mechanism for masking out areas of continuous motion.

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.

Software and HDL code for Elphel reconfigurable network cameras

Webcam periodic frame grabber. This is a command-line application that uses OpenCV for grabbing frame and saving them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.