Video for Linux resources
This page was born in 1997 and was updated faithfully for a while, but has
been stale for far too long. You should head over to the
V4L-DVB wiki for current info.
Anything shown below is what's left of the original links which are still
working, although many of them are also very old and not very useful.
Last update pass (dropping dead links and updating those which have moved):
December 2023.
- DVR - Digital Video Recorder for Linux
- mplayer - Also supports v4l devices
- MythTV - Homebrew PVR project
- OpenPVR - Personal Video Recorder project
- shalVideo - TV recording/scheduling application
- tvtime - High quality TV viewer
- VideoLAN - Multimedia streamer; can capture from v4l
- WebVCR+ - Automatic TV show recording and management
- xawtv - Athena/Motif/Gtk TV application
- Zapping - TV viewer for the GNOME environment
- Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting) - SoftPhone / video conferencing / IM
- Gspy - A Gnome security camera
- Motion - Takes a snapshot when a change is detected
- Palantir - Multichannel (video, audio, data) interactive streaming solution
- ZoneMinder - Video motion detection and capture with user friendly web (PHP/MySQL) interface
- avifile - Can grab from v4l
- Camserv - Streams video through the web
- camsource - Modularized, multithreaded framegrabber architecture
- Cinelerra - Advanced compositing and editing system
- Coriander - IEEE 1394 camera controller - can export to V4L
- gv4l - GUI frontend for v4l functions of transcode
- LIVES - LiVES: LiVES is a Video Editing System
- MJPEG Tools - Tools for recording, editing and MPEG compression
- SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Can read from V4L devices
- Video4Linux Grab - Realtime recording software for KDE
- vgrabbj - Videostream grabber
- AniToolBox - Computer Aided Cartoon Creation program suite development
- ARToolKit - Software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications.
- EffecTV - Real-time video effects generator
- GePhex - Modular video effect framework
- nexTView - EPG decoder software
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