Capturing Video Streams

libmpeg2 is a free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video streams. libmpeg2 is released under the terms of the GPL license. mpeg2dec mpeg2dec is a test program for libmpeg2. It decodes mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 video streams, and also includes a demultiplexer for mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 program... Platforms: *nix

h264bitstream project provides a complete set of functions to read and write video streams conforming to the ITU H264 (MPEG4-AVC) video standard. The main design goal is to provide a complete, fully standards-compliant library for reading and writing H264 bitstreams. Reading and writing headers... Platforms: *nix

StreamTuned plays and records audio and video streams using mplayer as backend. It also reads stream urls and related information from playlists, webpages or XML/RSS feeds. Streamtuned can act as Podcast client and allows for local and remote (webservice) access to the repositories containing... Platforms: *nix

Python application to browse, search, play and record shoutcast internet radio and TV (audio and video streams) TunaPie is a directory browser for internet radio and TV streams. At present, TunaPie project uses the shoutcast server, but compatibility with other services is planned. Tunapie... Platforms: *nix

Klear is a KDE application for recording video streams from your DVB device and watching TV with all advantages of digital television (like EPG, OSD, and so on). Klear project is developed for SWP lectured by Prof. Knabe at the TFH Berlin. We started in October 2004, so this program is... Platforms: *nix

P2P-Radio is a program that can distribute audio and video streams (MP3/Ogg Vorbis/NSV) over the Internet in a peer-to-peer manner. It is possible to create your own internet radio station with P2P-Radio! P2P-Radio is programmed in Java and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and many other systems.... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Java, BSD Solaris

Any Video Recorder is an easy-to-use yet powerful video-recording software, which supports recording video streams, online videos & TV shows, purchased or rental iTunes DRM videos, rental HD videos and DVD movies, etc. Want to watch all your favorite clips, video blogs, and music videos even... Platforms: Windows

AV DVD Player Morpher is a good call for home movies entertainment. With this one-stop video tool, you can play & morph audio - video streams in real-time, add effects to movies, convert video files to AVI & WMV, edit subtitles, capture images, record DVD audio, burn or erase VCD, and help design... Platforms: Windows

image2mpeg is a tool to convert digital photos (and any other images) into MPEG video streams, with transitions between the images. The photos may be accompanied with music (or any other audio stream). The resulting slideshows may be prepared for VCD, SVCD, or DVD playback in stand-alone... Platforms: *nix

RateXCalc is a simple tool for audio/video streams and media size/length cross calculation. With RateXCalc you can: - Evaluate the maximum video rate for a perfect fit in different media - Calculate the final production size for a given movie length and a/v rates - Jog the video rate with a... Platforms: *nix

ZBar is an open source software suite for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw intensity sensors. It supports many popular symbologies (types of bar codes) including EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code.... Platforms: *nix

python-v4l2capture is a slim and easy to use Python extension for capturing video with video4linux2. It supports libv4l to convert any image format to RGB. v4l2capture requires libv4l by default. You can compile v4l2capture without libv4l if you only want it to support video devices supporting... Platforms: *nix

LVE is a frame and GOP accurate editing of MPEG1/2 video files. Differnet mpeg formats are supported: program streams ("PS") including DVD conform vob format, single elemtary video streams ("ES"). multiplexed, packed elementary A/V streams ("PES"), often used by DVB recording software.... Platforms: *nix

Mediastreamer is library written in C that allows you to create and run audio and video streams. It is designed for any kind of voice over IP applications. It features RTP connectivity, audio codecs (Speex, iLBC, G711, GSM), video codecs (MPEG4, H263, Theora), I/O from soundcards, wav files,... Platforms: *nix

x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. The code is written by Laurent Aimar, Eric Petit(OS X), Min Chen (vfw/nasm), Justin Clay(vfw), Måns Rullgård and Loren Merritt from scratch. It is released under the terms of the GPL license. WARNING: x264 is still in early... Platforms: *nix

iMagneto is focused on the audio/video streams transmitted over the internet. iMagneto allows you to play and record your favorites streams as Web TV or Radio, ADSL TV and multimedia podcast. Platforms: Mac

If you have one or more IP cameras, then you also need software that is able to receive and display a video stream from these devices. Most likely you will also want to monitor access to the rooms in automatic mode. A modern security system should be able to detect movements using video frame... Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Windows Media Stream Recorder lets you record audio and video streams from the Internet directly to a CD or your hard drive.Windows Media Stream Recorder has various recording modes. In Browse mode you can record the videos you see on the web. The program detects the start, end and the name of... Platforms: Windows

Takes the contents of Windows on your Mac desktop and grabs them as continuous video streams, creating a virtual camera input for anything on your desktop. Now you can take multiple Skype callers, switch them in real-time and use them as input to any existing webcam-enabled application. Or take... Platforms: Mac

SharePlay allows you to play and manage frequently viewed video streams and podcasts on your Mac. It natively supports external screens (including video projectors) and automated, fullscreen playback. Here’s how it works: enter URLs to popular Platforms: Mac