Digital Video Recorder Software Reviews and Downloads

Open Video Capture

Capture video from Web cam, TV tuner card, digital video, digital camera and other capture devices. This software can set video compression codec and audio compression codec, output frame size and frame rate. It also snapshots pictures with the hotkey. It can set each capture device's properties, preview and record real-time video, watch TV if TV tuner is installed. It supports open compression system for video and audio.

Topaz Moment

Capture video frames and enhance them into clean sharp pictures with up to 4x resolution increase. Tired of noisy and blur frame grab from video? Topaz Moment uses the most advanced super-resolution technology to let you capture a video frame that is the cleanest, sharpest, and at highest resolution. This is your tool for capturing priceless moments and turning them into photo-quality mega-pixel prints!

ChrisTV Pro

Control your TV card and record from any video capture device. ChrisTV Professional supports all analog TV cards based on the BT8x8 chip set, Philips SAA713x chip set, Conexant CX2388x and all capture devices like Web cams, graphic cards with video-input and combo cards. It also has support for TV Cards with MPEG Hardware Encoding like Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 series, Leadtek PVR 2000, Pinnacle Deluxe.

LuxRiot DVR

This software is a digital video recording and remote surveillance software package. LuxRiot accepts video streams from network cameras from all major manufacturers including Axis, Mobotix, Pixord, SONY, JVC, Panasonic, IQinVision, Toshiba, Vivotek, D-Link, ComArt HiCap and XeCap series frame grabbers for analog CCTV cameras and any Direct Show compatible devices including webcams and USB cameras. This along with the LuxRiot client-server architecture allows to build heterogeneous scalable solutions sizing from a single camera to the thousands of cameras. LuxRiot accepts video streams from Network (IP) cameras from 38 manufacturers including all major manufacturers such as Axis, Arecont Vision, Pixord, SONY, JVC, Panasonic, IQinVision, Toshiba, VCenter (GadSpot), Vivotek (more than 240+ models supported), ComArt HiCap and XeCap series frame grabbers for analog CCTV cameras and any Direct Show compatible devices including Webcams and USB cameras. This along with the LuxRiot client-server architecture allows to build heterogeneous scalable solutions sizing from a single camera to the thousands of cameras.

WebCam Recorder

WebCam Recorder allows you to record web cams to hard disk. The program can record any webcam image displayed in a browser. You can watch your recordings as often as you like using the built in VCR like file player. It also features trick play (freeze frame, slow motion and reverse play) so you can have fun with your recordings. In addition, it features a video editor which can save stills to hard disk or extract the best bits from a recording.

Debut Video Capture Software

Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files and record virtually anything displayed on your screen. Includes the ability to record to .avi,.wmv,.asf,.mpg,.3gp,.mp4,.mov, automatically email your movies once recording has stopped, and to record for specific periods of time. Records audio with the video (optional). Multiple video and audio encoder settings. Ability to adjust resolution and framerate of the output video. Color settings for the output video can be changed.

Beyond TV

Beyond TV is personal television recorder that allows you to record your favorite TV shows on your computer. A program guide displays the current program schedule and provides one-touch TV recording. You can record, store and share your favorite shows from a central location, using the built-in server. Watch recorded shows and stream live TV to any device to any room in your home across wireless, ethernet or HPNA.

wipidoTV

With the wipidoTV tool you can record ingame videos of all your favorite games (via GDI, OpenGL , DirectX 8 or DirectX 9) and upload those AVI's to your wipidoTV profile at the product's web site. Hook up the tool to your favorite game and show your skills.

CTpvr

You can also pause live TV never missing a second of any show you watch. You can rewind or skip forward past commercials. The Electronic Program Guide allows you to find and schedule the shows you like. Now with the Media Center addition you view your Photos, Play Music, DVD's, Videos, Internet Music and FM Radio.

honestech VHS to DVD

Convert VHS video tapes into CD or DVD in real-time. The edit function enables you to make titles with effects, and cut and paste clips. The burning function enables you to save video clips in DVD or VCD format. You can set recording durations and create your own menus. CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW are supported.

AVS DV to DVD

Transfer video from DV and mini-DV camcorders to DVD or the computer hard drive. Select the scenes to be left and cut out the unnecessary ones even before you save the captured video. Create DVDs with menus or save it as MPEG-2 video on your computer. Split the video into chapters and add them to your menu. Create a menu using templates or make your own menu.

AVS Capture Wizard

Transfer video from VHS, TV tuners, DVB cards, miniDV and WEB cameras to hard drive in AVI, MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 formats or create movie DVDs. Friendly wizard-styled interface of AVS Capture Wizard enables you to perform a lot of operations without any difficulties. AVS Capture Wizard is a part of AVS4YOU package. Register once and work with all 27 tools from the www.AVS4YOU.com. Subscribe for $29/year or $59/lifetime

TVedia media center

TVedia is the next generation networked Media Center PC software. For only $34.95, TVedia turns your ordinary Windows PC into a feature packed media center with stunning graphics and powerful media library management functions. Using TVedia, you can access content on digital media server; you can play online photo slideshow on Flickr, stream online radio from Live365, or stream online video from YouTube, Google Video, or Metacafe. Not even Microsoft's Windows Media Center edition can do this, not to mention that you don't need to purchase a new Media Center PC.

Argus Surveillance DVR

The program has been designed as universal software for security hybrid platforms working simultaneously with wireless and wired IP cameras, TV-boards, capture cards, power-line, and USB cameras. It has web interface with the same look and functionality on the local and remote computers. Users have full control of the program through network that surveillance computer can be operated with no monitor, keyboard, and mouse connected.

STOIK Capturer

STOIK Capturer can capture input from a video device such as a connected DV recorder through IEEE 1394 FireWire, a webcam or TV Tuner card, and save the output in AVI (using codec of your choice) or WMV format. It can optionally use a temporary file to avoid drop frames during recompression, and automatically split the output into common media sizes. Other features include playback control (as supported by device), as well as output of DV Avi to a DV recorder. No documentation.

FastCap Mini

FastCap game recorder will not laggard down your PC even when you record at high frames per second (FPS). You can see the game FPS during recording. FastCap's audio and video is fully sync. Intelligent Pause. FastCap game recorder is also unique in its Intelligent Pause feature. You can Pause recording if you do not want to record the junk video. FastCapPro also supports real time video and audio encoding and elective video resolutions.

DemoRec

DemoRec is a new, powerful, advanced screen recording system designed to be user-friendly and simple-to-use. It can be used to create video demonstrations and tutorials for your programs. It allows you to capture your computer screen activity into standard AVI video files or a sequences of images. You can create AVI movies using any video codec installed on your computer.

Replay AV

Replay A/V is the most powerful way to capture all kinds of Streaming Video and Audio, including Radio Shows, Online TV Broadcasts, video clips, audio archives, and Podcasts. You can record clips instantaneously, or schedule recordings to happen automatically later. Plus, the integrated Replay Media Guide lets you pick Radio Shows, Radio Stations, TV Stations and Podcasts to record with a single click. Also captures Sirius and XM Radio online.

Yahoo! Go

Yahoo! Go is a DVR and media center software (Digital Video Recording) that allows you to record and manage TV programs, view photos from your local PC or online communities (Yahoo!, Flickr), listen to your music collection and more. It also integrates several Yahoo! features that allow you to access music videos, box office movie reviews, local showtimes and trailers, search for videos, and listen to LAUNCHcast radio stations. Currently supported TV Tuner cards: ATI TV Wonder Elite, ATI HDTV Wonder, AverMedia UltraTV 1500 MCE, Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 , NVidia Dual TVmce. Yahoo! Go for TV is currently available inside the U.S. only

EPGcenter

EPGcenter is a windows program which provides you with an electronic program guide on your PC. For new users it will provide out of the box EPG information without having to setup anything. You may define your own favorites which will allow you to display an alert whenever your favorite program starts. EPGcenter supports XMLTV files.

Showshifter

This program allows you to record TV programs with a range of quality settings. It supports DivX and includes DivX profiles in the ShowShifter recompression mode so that users with slower CPUs can record in MJPEG and then recompress the file into a smaller DivX format

Visual Hindsight Professional Edition

Monitor your home or business over the Internet with Visual Hindsight. It is a remote network camera surveillance and recording tool for private or commercial use. You can monitor convenience stores, gas stations, day care centers, retirement facilities, hospitals, laboratories, commercial property or private homes.

BT Video Wizard

This program allows you to record video in compressed WMV format. The program records direct to file with no intermediate conversions. It has a video e-mail feature and a video Web page feature. It can upload videos and the Web pages that are created to a Web server.

Exsate DV Capture Live

Exsate DV Capture Live enables you to capture and convert DV video from your camcorder via a IEEE-1394 Firewire connection. While the program is capturing the video, it automatically converts it to AVI or WMV format in real-time and saves it to your hard drive. You can optionally imprint the DV time stamp into the captured video and choose to have it appear once a day, once an hour or with every scene. Furthermore, you can choose to capture to a single or multiple files, append to existing projects, and operate all playback functions of your DV camcorder. Exsate DV Capture Live does not offer any editing functionalities, but if you just want to capture and convert your tapes to digital format, this program offers all the functionality you`ll need.

AssureCam Desktop

16 Camera, S-Video, Desktop DVR and Security Software. Allows for up to 10fps recording to AVI with variable storage capacity and setup. Each Camera can be configured independently and can record to a maximum file size of your choosing. Can work as a 16 camera DVR if setup properly. Works on Windows PC Operating Systems with Argus Video cards only! This release is free of charge!

SnappySoft

SnappySoft records video from a variety of analog audio-video and TV tuner capture devices with real-time MPEG compression. It supports all TV tuner cards shipped with Microsoft Media Center XP, as well as most of the capture devices manufactured by Emuzed Inc. Users can select between a number of preset capture templates that are optimized for further VCD, SVCD, DVD authoring with third-party authoring tools. Users can also fine-tune capture and compression settings, scan for TV channels and play back captured files.

DVD To Wav Recorder

Record DVD audio to a WAV file with DVD To Wav Recorder. The program can play DVDs with a built-in DVD player. After you open the DVD, set the start time and the end time, and the program will record any section of the DVD you want.

CamStudio

Record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and turn them into streaming Flash videos, SWFs, with Cam Studio. The program can add high-quality, anti-aliased screen captions to your recordings, and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can personalize your videos by including a Web cam movie of yourself, picture-in-picture, over your desktop. It comes with its own lossless codec that produces results with a small file size. You have total control over the output of your video: you can choose to use custom cursors, to record the whole screen or just a section of it and can reduce or increase the quality of the recording depending on your requirements.

VideoMage Producer

Superimpose and manipulate graphic images over real-time video received from any webcam or digital video camera. Graphic images can be superimposed on the real-time video stream and can be manipulated in a variety of ways such as fading, resizing and moving. You can also draw on top of the video image with a telestrator effect. VideoMage Producer provides control over compression settings used for recording the captured video in both AVI and WMV format. The exact timing of all applied graphic effects is maintained and can be saved for future video capture sessions. Editing tools allow saved sessions to be adapted to changing requirements. VideoMage Producer allows you to take a snapshot of the video image at any time, including the applied graphics and effects.

WebShifter

Web based and WAP enabled scheduler for TV and satellite recording software, PVR software and HTPC software.

DVX

This software is a video encoding program with a wide range of supported source and target formats.

neoTV

Record TV directly to DVD disc or hard drive with this application. It includes the Titan-TV Electronic Program Guide. The quality settings allow you to record up to 90 minutes of high quality D1 video, 3 hours of standard play video and over 5 hours of extended play video. You can also use the Fit To Disc option to automatically calculate the space available and adjust the quality to fit the recording onto the disc.

SageTV

With this program you get complete PVR functionality to pause live TV, rewind, fast-forward, and conveniently record your shows for playback on your monitor or TV. It includes an integrated programming guide that provides a favorites manager, one-touch recording, search functionality and intelligent recording and scheduling. It also provides complete media center functionality to access your music, video and photo collections and playback DVDs.

WM Recorder

This program provides a method to capture streaming Windows Media Video or audio content to a file on your PC. It's appropriate for music videos, news feeds, streaming music, radio broadcasts, adult and subscription content, and corporate Webcasts.

Visual Hindsight Home Edition

Monitor your home or business over the Internet with this remote network camera surveillance and

SplitCAM

This virtual video capture driver allows you to connect several applications to a single video capture source. It splits the video stream coming from the source and provides it to other client applications. You can connect up to 64 clients through a single video source.

Easy Video Capture

This software is a utility for recording your screen activities into AVI video in real time. It supports recording video, audio and the cursor. You can use it to record DVD, RM or VCD into AVI files. You can also use it to make slide-show training videos. You may change the options for recording, add text to video, record video with audio, choose to record mouse cursor or not, and blink the area border when recording.

Myhtpc

This software is a customizable, menu-driven front end that lets you launch external programs and any type of media stored on your computer.

WinVDR Video Disk Recorder PRO

This real time video capture program can directly record to MPEG-4, Divx, AVI and WMV video formats. It has a cubic filter for every frame of video stream to highly improve the quality. Capture speed is enhanced through the use of MMX/SSE assemble code in kernel arithmetic.