Open Source Capture Software

GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license.

Open Camera is an Open Source Camera app for Android(TM) phones and tablets. * Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera * Get it on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/ * Or you can download the APK/source directly, see "Files" above. Android, Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC.

Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. This project is now part of the Media Player Classic - Home Cinema project, at https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/

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.

Thumbnail me is a free and open source thumbnails generator built on movie thumbnailer. Thumbnail me is coded in C++ and uses the Qt 4.8.0 library. This software is actually available on Windows Xp / 2k3 / 2k8 / Vista / 7 x86/x64 and Linux x86/x64. Source Code : 3.5 (Never released) : https://github.com/kwent/thumbnailme 3.0 (Current version) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumbnailme/files/Sources/thumbnailme_3.0_Windows_Sources.zip/download Source Documentation : http://www.thumbnailme.com/doc

You-Get is a small command-line utility for downloading media (video, audio and images) from the Web when there are no other means to do so. It can download video and audio files from such popular web sites as YouTube, Twitter, Niconico, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram and a whole lot more. You-Get is a great option for when you want to enjoy your favorite videos, audio or images from the internet without having to open any web browsers or get interrupted by ads. It’s also a good choice for when you want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code from running on your computer.

SmartCam - Smart Phone Web Camera - Turns a camera phone (S60, WinMo6.x, Android, Samsung Bada) with bluetooth or WiFi into a handy webcam ready to use with your PC

NOTE: Project migrated to GitHub in Dec 2020! See https://github.com/Enselic/recordmydesktop recordMyDesktop is a program that captures audio-video data of a linux desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobstrusive as possible by proccessing only regions of the screen that have changed

Dorgem is a webcam capture program for Windows

A video thumbnail generator based on FFMPEG.

macam is focused on developing webcam support for Mac OS X. We are trying to incorporate many different camera types. If you want a camera to work on OSX, join in! We need help with testing cameras (there are soooo many). Please visit the Web Site fi

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.

****************************************************** !!! This Tool is moving to Github !!! ****************************************************** Manage your UltraVNC connection files (Extension: ".vnc") with this tool. Features: Browsing, editing, importing exporting, establish connections (through VNC, SSH, Telnet, PsExec, ...). All connection files are stored in one central place per user.

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.

xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam.

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.

Superseded by the GSPCA driver in the mainline kernel. Development now at http://linuxtv.org/ [Formerly: Linux device driver for SPCA50X based USB cameras (Intel PC Camera Pro)]

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.

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

(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

LinPHA is an easy to use, multilingual, flexible photo/image archive/album/gallery written in PHP. It uses a SQL database to store information about your pictures. It comes with a HTML based installer, so you don't need experience in setting up SQL

Coriander is a full-featured GUI for IEEE1394, IIDC-compliant digital cameras.

We have moved to https://forja.rediris.es/projects/csl-longomatch/

MiniMonitor is a lightweight Windows application designed for monitoring capture cards and microphones with minimal system impact. Ideal for Elgato and other capture devices, it detects connected video and audio inputs, tests microphones, and provides real-time video and audio playback. Users can select devices through a simple GUI, toggle Fullscreen display, and quickly check functionality without heavy software overhead. Built with Python, OpenCV, PyAudio, and Tkinter, MiniMonitor is perfect for streamers, content creators, and anyone needing low-latency monitoring of capture cards and audio sources.

Fwink is a webcam application for Windows. It takes still images from your camera and uploads them to an FTP server. You have the option to add effects to your images.