📼 Find and extract motion events in videos.
Latest Release: v1.6 (October 15, 2023)
Website: dvr-scan.com
User Guide: dvr-scan.com/guide
Documentation: dvr-scan.com/docs
DVR-Scan is a command-line application that automatically detects motion events in video files (e.g. security camera footage). DVR-Scan looks for areas in footage containing motion, and saves each event to a separate video clip. DVR-Scan is free and open-source software, and works on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Quick Install
pip install dvr-scan[opencv] --upgrade
Windows builds are also available on the Downloads page.
Quickstart
Scan video.mp4 (separate clips for each event):
dvr-scan -i video.mp4
Select a region to scan using the region editor:
dvr-scan -i video.mp4 -r
Select a region to scan using command line (list of points as X Y):
dvr-scan -i video.mp4 -a 50 50 100 50 100 100 100 50
Draw boxes around motion:
dvr-scan -i video.mp4 -bb
Use ffmpeg to extract events:
dvr-scan -i video.mp4 -m ffmpeg
See the documentation for a complete list of all command-line and configuration file options which can be set. You can also type dvr-scan --help for an overview of command line options. Some program options can also be set using a config file.
Copyright © 2016-2023 Brandon Castellano. All rights reserved. Licensed under BSD 2-Clause (see the LICENSE file for details).