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.
Also check out the
linux-video mailing list archives
for current activity.
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.
- 3com HomeConnect PC Digital WebCam driver
- Bt8x8 video capture driver for Solaris - Uses the V4L API
- bttv2 - V4L2 driver for Bt8x8 based video capture cards
- CPiA webcam driver
- FAST AV Master driver
- Fuji Film FinePix PC CAM mode V4L driver
- GATOS km - v4l interface for Mach64, Rage128 and Radeon cards
- Hauppauge WinTV PVR Linux driver
- IBM C-it USB Camera Driver for Linux
- i2c-Bus for Linux
- Iomega Buz
- ivtv - Linux iTVC15/16 and CX23415/16 Driver, Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250/350, more
- Linux driver for SE401 based USB webcams
- Linux OVCam driver - USB capture devices (OV511, OV518+)
- Linux UVC driver and tools
- Philips USB Webcam Driver for Linux
- Pinnacle/Miro DC30 driver
- PixelView driver
- PowerMac PlanB video input driver
- QuickCam Express
- RamCam Video4Linux driver
- RivaTV project - For nVidia cards with the video-in feature
- SiS graphics chipsets and Linux/XFree86 - v4l/Xv support
- SPCA50X USB Camera Linux Driver - Sunplus chipsets
- Unified Zoran driver - Supports Pinnacle/Miro DC10, DC10+, DC30, DC30+, Iomega Buz, Linux Media Labs LML33, LML33R10.
- Unofficial homepage for Matrox Marvel/Rainbow Runner G-Series for Linux stuff
- Voodoo3 3500 TV
- Zoran based framegrabbers
- zr364xx - Aiptek PocketDV 3300 / Maxell Maxcam PRO DV3
- DVR - Digital Video Recorder for Linux
- Freevo - Open-source digital video jukebox
- 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
- camE - Rewrite of the xawtv webcam app
- Camorama - Gtk/GNOME 2 webcam software
- CamStream - C++/Qt collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices
- GnomeMeeting - Linux H.323 compatible client for the Gnome desktop
- Gspy - A Gnome security camera
- Linux Motion Detection - Watches a video device for activity
- 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
- FreeJ - Realtime video manipulation on multiple video layers with filters
- gv4l - GUI frontend for v4l functions of transcode
- HasciiCam - Captures frames and renders them in HTML refreshed ASCII via aalib
- LIVES - LiVES: LiVES is a Video Editing System
- MJPEG Tools - Tools for recording, editing and MPEG compression
- MPEG4IP - Standards-based system for encoding, streaming, and playing MPEG-4 encoded audio and video
- SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) Can read from V4L devices
- vgrabber - ppm frame grabber
- 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
- GStreamer - Streaming media framework
- Improv - Image Processing for Robot Vision
- Linux VeeJay - Visual 'music' instrument
- nexTView - EPG decoder software
- setv4l - Simple command line program for changing the picture settings of a video 4 linux device
- fmio - Console radio card control (including V4L radio cards)
- fmtools - Utilities for v4l radio cards
- Gnomeradio - FM radio tuner for the GNOME desktop (version 1 and 2)
- GQradio - Part of GQmpeg
- OZradio - Graphical radio and recording controller
- radiok - Graphical radio card interface for KDE 3
- rdsd - Radio Data System daemon and library
- xfce-goodies - Includes "xfce4-radio-plugin"
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