Recently, I’ve been working on streaming live video from IP cameras to a Flash player on a website. It sounds simple, but not so much, (if you’re in a hurry, skip to the solution).

Leopard’s QTKit capture classes free you from this restriction, allowing you to capture, simultaneously, from however many devices you happen to have available.

Capture Me is a flexible screen capture and recording utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window, several saving options, and resize ability.

CamStudio is an open source Windows-only screen recorder. There is also a command-line version, CamStudio CL and it has a lossless codec.

If you have ever delved into the deep caves of video encoding and transcoding you’ve probably come along FFmpeg, the ’swiss army knife’ of video encoding tools. Basically, FFmpeg is a command-line tool that allows you to convert virtually any video and audio format to another format.

FFmpeg x264 encoding guide. Encoding h.264 in FFmpeg