Introducing Gmerlin recorder

Gmerlin-recorder is a small application, which records audio and video from hardware devices. It was written as a more generic application, which should eventually replace camelot. See below for a screenshot:

As sources, we support:

• Audio devices via OSS, Alsa, Esound, Pulseaudio and Jack
  
• Webcams via V4L and V4L2
  
• X11 grabbing
  

For monitoring you see the video image in the recorder window. For the audio you have a vumeter. With recorded streams you can do lots of stuff:

• Filter the streams using gmerlin A/V filters
  
• Write the streams to files using gmerlin encoder plugins
  
• Send the encoded stream to an icecast server (will be described in detail in another blog post)
  
• Save snapshots to images either manually or automatically
  

With all these features combined in the right way, you can use gmerlin-recorder for a large number of applications:

• Make vlogs with your webcam and a microphone
  
• Digitize analog music
  
• Make a video tutorial for your application
  
• Start your broadcasting station
  
• Send music from your stereo to your WLAN radio
  
• Make stop-motion movies
  
• ...
  

Until the recorder can fully replace camelot, we need the following features, which are not there yet:

• Fullscreen video display
  
• Forwarding of the video stream via vloopback