Software Map

Camsource is a modularized and multithreaded daemon for grabbing image frames from a video4linux device. It uses a simple yet powerful plugin system, which allows it to use the same grabbed images for multiple purposes at the same time. It features image filter plugins, which can be daisychained in the XML config file to modify the image before passing them to other plugins. Included plugins provide compatibility with camserv (multipart jpeg streams) and webcam_server, a local snapshot file writing module, and an FTP upload module, as well as basic image filtering (resizing, flipping, and rotating).

Gecko Multimedia System is a complete media solution,
able to play almost all media types and supporting
scheduled TV recording from online TV guides. It is
intended to replace your VCR, DVD, MP3, and CD player with one single software unit.

xvidcap is a screen capture application enabling
you to capture videos from your XFree86 desktop
for illustration or documentation purposes. It is
intended to be a standards-based alternative to
tools like Lotus ScreenCam.

Kvdr lets you watch the output of VDR on a monitor
in X11.

ETV is a personal video recorder (PVR) especially
suited for European use. It can schedule by hand
or according to rules based on XMLTV. It can also
time-shift. The recorder runs on Linux, and the
scheduler and frontend on either Linux or Windows.
Its GUI is designed to be used with a remote on a
TV screen.

Mumudvb is a program that redistributes streams from DVB on a network using multicast or HTTP unicast. Its main feature is to multicast a whole DVB transponder by assigning each channel a different multicast Group. It can operate Conditional Access Modules (CAM), and therefore works with encrypted streams. It has very low CPU and memory usage.

KMencoder is a frontend for Mplayer/Mencoder.

ttyrec is a tty recorder. Recorded data can be played back with the included ttyplay command. It can record emacs -nw, vi, lynx, or any programs running on tty.

furious_tv is a PVR backend that uses an SQLite
database to hold XMLTV listings data. Using that
data, it can automatically execute commands to
record TV shows off of a capture device (multiple
capture devices are supported). If Shuriken is
installed, furious_tv can also automatically power
the system on/off for recordings to save power.

mplayer-tools is a CLI tool collection for MPlayer with a GUI frontend.You can record and timeshift from your TV tuner. It also remembers movies and positions to resume a movie easily. It has support for movie series, play history, playlist in the GUI, and many useful options.

Linux Video Surveillance (eLViS) provides a user interface for watching motion frames captured by the motion program as JPEG files. It has VCR-like controls, rewind, stop, play, and fast forward. It lets you view up to four motion threads (camera sources) and has a simple configuration panel.

Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394
digital video camera interactively. It features
SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and
Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for
consumer grade DV cameras.