video-capture-v1-public

Video capture and archiving program.

Runtime requirements:

• Linux kernel 2.6 or higher
• Video4linux2 compatible capture devices (the older Linux 2.4-ish video4linux interface is not supported)
• 1GHz processor or faster, dual core recommended
• 256MB of RAM or higher
• X-Windows (XFree86 or X.org) with SHM and Xv extension libraries
• GTK+ 2.23 or higher
• Glib, pango, freetype
• FFMPEG 2.5.x or higher
• FFMPEG must have been compiled with support for libx264 (open source H.264 encoder)

Also recommended:

• X-Windows installion with stable drivers and YUV overlay support
• 800x600 or higher display
• Plenty of hard disk space

As of 2011/11/30 some keyboard shortcuts have been implemented to assist in using the program:

Left/Right Arrow Keys ................. Single-step through the AVI Spacebar .............................. Toggle between Play/Pause or begin playback Escape ................................ Stop playback ',' and '.' keys ...................... Slow down/Speed up and possibly reverse playback. These keys also have < and > markings on them. 1, 2, 3, and 4 ........................ Switch to input 1, 2, 3, or 4 Shift+I ............................... Switch to IP input Shift+F ............................... Switch to File input Ctrl+O ................................ Select capture file for File input

What is currently implemented:

• video capture, live feed display, and recording to an AVI file when recording activated
• loading/saving configuration (videocap.ini)
• IP input configuration dialog
• Client-server communication
• The use of the X-Windows SHM extension (shared memory segment bitmap transfer)
• The use of the X-Windows XVideo extension to enable use of the hardware YUV overlay
  typically present on modern VGA graphics chipsets.
• Scrubbing through the captured file

Yet to do:

• IP input decoding and display (MPEG transport stream). TS code is in place, not yet
  fully functional.
• File -> Convert menu command. I understand one of the things to implement was a
  "convert to other format" option.
• IP input metadata reception and decoding (partially written, not yet stable and complete).