Open source screen recording in Title/Summary

Open Source Backup

Open Source Backup is a back-up utility for Windows. The application's name has absolutely nothing to do with being an open source project, since the source code isn't available on the website at all. When I first opened this, I was rather surprised at how simple and straightforward it looked.

• Publisher: BackupMill.com
• Last updated: May 10th, 2009

Open Source Notebook

Free software, open source, online privacy, and free speech propaganda for a more geek friendly future! Users should update to version 1.1 to minimize numbers of DNS requests, and netwok traffic. Longer entry summaries in new feed too! The latest entries from Open Source Notebook on your desktop!

• Publisher: Opera widgets
• Home page: widgets.opera.com

MapGuide Open Source Release

MapGuide Open Source is a web-based platform that enables users to develop and deploy web mapping applications and geospatial web services. MapGuide features an interactive viewer that includes support for feature selection, property inspection, map tips, and operations such as buffer, select within, and measure.

• Publisher: Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• Home page: mapguide.osgeo.org
• Last updated: August 18th, 2011

Open source screen recording in Description

NVDA

NVDA is intended to bridge the gap between sighted people and those who have problems to read from the computer screen. The program uses speech synthesis to provide blind and other types of visually impaired people with an audio-based interface, parallel to the traditional graphical user interface.

• Publisher: Michael Curran
• Home page: www.nvda-project.org
• Last updated: November 2nd, 2022

Free Screen Video Capture by Topviewsoft

Very few screen-recording utilities are as straightforward and easy to use as Free Screen Video Capture by Topviewsoft. It can easily capture all the activity taking place on your desktop or in a section of it, allowing you to produce your own tutorials, gameplays, presentations, etc., with just a few mouse clicks. The resulting videos can be saved as AVI, MPEG4, or DivX files.

• Publisher: TopviewSoft Inc.
• Last updated: November 24th, 2010

Visual IRC

Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients, nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included script, with the result that the program's behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source code.

• Publisher: Jesse McGrew
• Home page: www.visualirc.net
• Last updated: March 11th, 2008

SmartPixel

If you happen to require a simple yet efficient screen recorder and editor, SmartPixel is an excellent option to consider. It can capture your webcam video and desktop activity, making it a stunning tool for creating tutorials and producing in-game recordings. Its editor will let you add creative effects to your videos, from static text, speech bubbles, and borders to animated scenes and pendants.

• Publisher: Beyond Magic Limited
• Home page: www.smartpixel.com
• Last updated: July 23rd, 2015

K!TV

K!TV is a video-capture application for watching TV on your computer. It taps into a video capture device plugged into your computer and displays the video feed on your screen. It also offers some key features that set this application apart from the mere video-capture software. For example, there are several window modes, including full-screen and a no-border modes.

• Publisher: K!
• Last updated: February 14th, 2008

Additional Open source screen recording selection

Open Source Computer Vision Library

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) is a library of programming functions for real time computer vision. The library has >2500 optimized algorithms. It is free for both academic and commercial use. Uses range from interactive art, to mine inspection, stitching maps on the web on through advanced robotics.

• Publisher: OpenCV
• Last updated: January 18th, 2012

StreamRecorder.NET

StreamRecorder.NET is a small, simple and handy application that helps you record online audio streams such as podcasts or the broadcast of Internet radio stations. It does that by providing a GUI for controlling the recording function of acknowledged tools like VLC, MPlayer, and others.

• Publisher: Ohad Schneider
• Home page: sourceforge.net
• Last updated: September 30th, 2013

CMake a cross-platform, open-source build system

Cmake is an addition to the awesome open source systems, which have been gaining high popularity these days. This application performs the crucial task of managing the build process, in a compiler independent fashion in an operating system. It comprises of many simple configuration files, which collectively form the standard build files for normal working.

• Publisher: Kitware
• Home page: www.cmake.org
• Last updated: April 8th, 2014

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement. It supports around 80 programming languages with syntax highlighting and code folding. It allows working with multiple open files in a single window, thanks to its tabbed editing interface.

• Publisher: Don HO
• Home page: notepad-plus-plus.org
• Last updated: April 5th, 2024

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Plays everything - files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed - MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

• Publisher: VideoLAN
• Home page: www.videolan.org
• Last updated: November 7th, 2023

Firefox

Firefox is the most popular open-source browser, featuring a multi-tabbed modern interface and a comprehensive platform with thousands of third-party add-ons. Firefox lets you browse the Internet securely without worrying about tracking cookies, and social networking trackers.

• Publisher: Mozilla
• Home page: www.mozilla.org
• Last updated: March 28th, 2024

GCC - Open Source Compiler for MSP430 Microcontrollers

This package comes with a debugger and open source C/C++ compiler toolchains for building and debugging embedded applications based on MSP430 microcontrollers. It can be used standalone from the command-line or selected for use within Code Composer Studio v6.0 or later.

• Publisher: Texas Instruments
• Last updated: September 30th, 2016

Open Broadcaster Software

This free program lets you broadcast using different sources, not only your webcam. For example, you can broadcast pre-recorded videos or slideshows, as well as stream games, audio- or image-only feed, besides of the traditional webcam-video streaming.

• Publisher: OpenBroadcasterSoftware
• Home page: obsproject.com
• Last updated: March 24th, 2024

GIMP

GIMP is a free versatile graphics manipulation package. Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it.GIMP features a great fullscreen mode allowing you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen estate.

• Publisher: The GIMP Team
• Home page: www.gimp.org
• Last updated: December 20th, 2023

7-Zip

Based on the LZ77 algorithm, both LZMA and LZMA2 compression techniques provide an excellent data compression ratio. 7-Zip uses these compression methods to create archives in the 7z format protected with AES-256 encryption, though it supports any compression, conversion, and encryption method.

• Publisher: Igor Pavlov
• Home page: www.7-zip.org
• Last updated: February 29th, 2024