vidfilt: Fun with video streams

Features:

• Display live video streams
• Save live video streams to AVI files
• Capture video frames to JPEG files.
• Perform image processing filters to the live video
• Detect and only display/save-to-disk when motion occurs

It uses Direct Show to capture video, so you can use any webcam, capture board, or firewire camera that has Windows support. It uses Direct Draw to display the image on the screen quickly.

The saving to AVI feature works on filtered video, and uses Video for Windows so it's possible to save using any codec that you have installed with windows media player (yes, this also means you can save DiVX).

This started as a port of my Metgrab application to Win32, so if you are interested in a similar project for FreeBSD, check it out.

Download the binary here Download the source here

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