Freeseer is a free and open source screencasting application. Its primary purpose is capturing or streaming video at conferences.

It's been successfully used to capture presentations, demos, training material, and other videos. It can easily handle very large conferences with many talks using varied hardware and operating systems.

It is one of a few such tools that can also record VGA output or video from external sources such as FireWire, USB, S-Video, or RCA.

Freeseer is written in Python, uses Qt4 for its GUI, and Gstreamer for video/audio processing.

Freeseer is based on open standards and supports royalty free audio and video codecs.

Curious why Freeseer exists? Read our history!

Read our documentation at http://freeseer.github.com/docs

Use this option if you just want to run Freeseer. If you plan on developing Freeseer, you would still need to fork and clone the repo.

Visit our downloads page at https://github.com/Freeseer/freeseer/downloads

Note: For the very latest but unstable version, you have to build from the experimental source (see developers section).

• Make

• Git

• Python 2.7+

• sqlite3

• PyQT development tools

• Passlib (for the Freeseer server tool)

• Xlib (for one of the Linux plugins)

  Ubuntu Linux:

   $ sudo apt-get install build-essential qt4-qmake pyqt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-sqlite python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-qt4-sql python2.7-dev python-feedparser python-setuptools python-xlib
   $ sudo easy_install yapsy==1.9.2 passlib
  

  Fedora Linux:

   $ sudo yum install git make PyQt4-devel python-feedparser.noarch python-setuptools
   $ sudo easy_install yapsy==1.9.2
  

  Windows:

  1. python-2.7.3(x86 or x64) + Python needs to be version 2.7.*
  2. setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.7 (download)
  3. GStreamer-WinBuilds-GPL-x86-Beta04-0.10.7(download)
  4. GStreamer-WinBuilds-SDK-GPL-x86-Beta04-0.10.7(download)
  5. PyQt-Py2.7-x86-gpl-4.8.5-1(x86) + Windows 32-bit packages are recommended (pygtk-all-in-one package does not have a 64-bit installer yet) + On Windows, add the following paths to your PATH variable : C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\bin
  6. these python eggs : pygtk, feedparser, yapsy
     • C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\easy_install.py feedparser
     • C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\easy_install.py pygtk
     • C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\easy_install.py yapsy==1.9.2

  Mac OS X:

  Coming soon!

Clone the project with git:

$ git clone git@github.com:Freeseer/freeseer.git  # Clones a copy of the master repo

$ cd freeseer
$ make

Once you have the prerequisite components you can run Freeseer using the following commands:

$ cd src
$ ./freeseer-record  # Recording tool
$ ./freeseer-config  # Configuration tool
$ ./freeseer-talkeditor  # Talk-list editor

See PACKAGE.txt for instructions.

Have a bug? Please create an issue here on GitHub!

https://github.com/Freeseer/freeseer/issues

Drop by our #freeseer channel on irc.freenode.net to get an instant response.

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#freeseer

Have a question? Ask on our mailing list!

freeseer@googlegroups.com

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