# Gems for capturing video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-for-capturing-video/56460 "2006-03-31T12:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kev_J)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-for-capturing-video/56460/1 "2006-03-31T12:26:05Z")
Hi, I’m looking into the possibility of using ruby to drive a video capture of an application in use. Does anyone know of any gems/libs that would be useful for this project? (unfortunately I’m stuck on windows) My thinking is that at the worst case I could use win32ole lib and drive a video capture program (snagit etc) through that, but I’m looking for something a little more rubyish 🙂 Any help greatly appreciated Thanks Kev ---
**Author:** ![Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kev\_J](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kev_J)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gems-for-capturing-video/56460/2 "2006-04-02T16:29:13Z")
Kev J. wrote: > Hi, > > I’m looking into the possibility of using ruby to drive a video capture > of an application in use. Does anyone know of any gems/libs that would > be useful for this project? (unfortunately I’m stuck on windows) > > My thinking is that at the worst case I could use win32ole lib and drive > a video capture program (snagit etc) through that, but I’m looking for > something a little more rubyish 🙂 > > Any help greatly appreciated > Thanks > Kev Bump… Me too. I have a system with a BT878 based 4 Port DVR card and associated WDM driver running on Win XP. Currently using py software Active Webcam but would like to capture shots directly from Ruby if possible. joe