Open Source Video Capture Software

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

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.

This is a Java wrapper for Ffmpeg. The JMF (Java Media Framework) plugins system lets one use JMStudio or other application to play H.263/rfc2190 streams. Support for H.263+ and MPEG-4 is currently under test, please contact us for further information.

Flazr is a Java implementation of protocols such as RTMP used for multimedia streaming. The Flazr project includes a streaming media server and related utilities.

This project develops video conferencing and VoIP applications for Mac OS X. XMeeting is based on the work of the OpenH323 project which provides the libraries for H.323 and SIP support.

mCamera is a client-server webcam for people who can't or just don't want to use webserver for sharing their webcam pictures. The client part compiles and works in windows too.

This emulator (VBS script) is a software video recorder with automatic control of the free space on the disk space to logging and cyclic capture of video streams in MPG format from sources such as the IP (network) camera, desktop, WEB-camera or any other DirectShow-device your OS. At the end of the emulator merges all video content in a single file with thinning frames for fast viewing. Capabilities: 1. Cyclical checking free space on a given disk. 2. If there is a place on the disk, run at a specified time interval to be converted into a predetermined format through FFMPEG in stealth mode flux trapping - Network media stream c IP-camera; Or desktop screen; Or DirectShow-device (WEB-camera, tuner, the same network camera through DS.JPEG filter). 3. If disk space is not enough, the oldest file is deleted the specified format to reach space. 4. Upon completion of the script made bonding media in a decimation of frames for subsequent rapid viewing. 5. Completion of the script...

ArCoLIVE provides a set of open source component-based toolkit for multimedia applications such as chat room, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) conversation, virtual white-board, audio/video conferencing, control connection containers, screen capture and file sharing.

(A WebWorm Crashed my website!! :( )BlueWalk is a small software for Symbian, it is the first automatic system for personal communication, that allows to communicate with the people around you. It will give you a new way of using phone.

This is a video chat program that allows users to join rooms and quick message each other to start either one on one or one on more video chat conversations.

DCAM WebCam Server w/ Personal Web Server (PWS) makes it easy to capture live streaming video and broadcast it on your web page. DCAM also has a built in HTTP personal web server (PWS) for those without a web host.

Flashvid contains two components - a Flash Video Publisher (suitable for recording live webcam video and audio) and a Flash Video Subscriber. They are designed to be integrated into other web sites, rather than to be used inside another Flash Project.

A utility for browsing and saving the URL's from Yahoo! Launch video streams.

Link2Cam is a PC application and a directshow pushsource filter, written in Delphi, that allows the use of Linksys IP Cameras with IM softwares such as Skype or MSN Messenger

Get Live RTMP Java Publisher at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and free downloads from the largest Open Source applications and software directory. Live RTMP Java Publisher is a library to share your desktop to the RED5 server

Mars Eva Computing Environment is a JMF, JINI project that is used to provide a collaborative mission planning & execution environment for furture teams on Mars. This effort is part of a simulation for the Mars Society of Australia.

Myron (webcamxtra) brings native-implemented, cross-platform computer vision to Processing and Macromedia Director, allowing inexpensive commercial USB cameras to control just about anything. Keep computer vision easy and inexpensive for the people!

This project aims to create a full blown netcast management and production suite to allow users to create broadcast quality audio/video content. The suite will handle all the functions from audio/video feeds to overlaying graphics and recording.

Omnimeeting is a multiplatform C++ videoconference program that can do live cam/audio streaming using RTSP protocol.It can recv/send a 360 degrees omnidirectional video and do a face detecting/tracking.It has APIs to convert/send omnidirectional images.

Example how to use Python and GStreamer to show, record and play back streams from IP surveillance cameras.

Console application which records audio/video streams from Sanyo HD cameras. It utilizes DirectShow filters which are installed when accessing the camera with web browser for the first time.

TimCam - A simple graphical WebCam program written in Java using the JMF (therefore usable on Microsoft Windows and Linux). Main objective is to capture pictures on an interval, and intelligently upload to a ftp site specified.

This is a video/audio/chat conferencing application that enables two users located at remote computers on a LAN, WAN or the internet to communicate with each others.

Webcam control panel for SONIX sn9c20x bridge and microdia driver. Add additional controls of v/h flip, auto exposure control, fast shoots via button of camera, turn on and off led's, flash, type of palette.

A "bitwise precision tool" bitrate calculator using MS-EXCELL programming. The results are used for DVD Video to audio-video streams. It helps compute VIDEO- & AUDIO-Bitrates, aspect ratio, screen size, choose audio format cbr. Has units MB,pixel,d:h:m:s, kbps, etc