Freeseer

Freeseer

Freeseer 2.5.3 performing a test screencast on Ubuntu
Original author(s) FOSSLC
Developer(s) Thanh Ha, Andrew Ross
Initial release January 2010 (2010-01)
Stable release
3.0.0 / 30 August 2013 (2013-08-30)[1]
Development status Active
Written in Python
Operating system Linux, Windows (additional software needed), OS X (not fully supported)
Platform Qt4, GStreamer
Available in English, German, French, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese
Type Screencasting software
License GNU General Public License[2]
Website freeseer.readthedocs.org

Freeseer /ˈfriːsiːɑːr/ is a cross-platform screencasting application suite released as free and open source software. Freeseer is a project of the Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC), a not-for-profit organization.

Its primary purpose is conference recording and has been used at conferences like OSGeo's FOSS4G, FSOSS, and more.[3]

The software renders videos in an Ogg format. Its video source options are USB (e.g. internal/external webcam) or desktop. Freeseer consists of three different dependent programs: a recording tool (which is the main tool), a configuration tool, and a talk-list editor.

History

Since 2008, FOSSLC has been recording open source events around the world. To reduce recording costs, gain more control over the recordings, and achieve a more portable recording solution, FOSSLC began investigating alternatives and in-house options.[4]

In 2009, Freeseer was developed to make recording video extremely easy.[5] Its primary goal was to make recording large conferences with many talks possible on a frugal budget and ensure recordings are high quality. Freeseer began as a proof of concept when a command line hack using strictly open source components was used to record video from a vga2usb device and audio from a microphone.[6]

Freeseer is now actively under development by a small team. The project also receives many contributions from students via open source contribution programs such as Google Summer of Code,[7] Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects,[8] and Fedora Summer Coding.[9]

Features

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