Frameworks Stop Motion

Frameworks controls a webcam to capture frames one by one to create stop-motion animation.

It ouputs (PNG format) files like this:

frame_0001.png
frame_0002.png

… etc.

Missing Features

Frameworks lacks any editing, exporting, and audio features.

Features

Frameworks supports:

• video4linux2 webcams
• camera controls
• frame averaging or image stacking to reduce noise (using naive post processing)
• onion skinning
• continuous preview (continuous playback of most recently captured frames)

Building

major dependencies:

• gtk4
• linux kernel headers with <linux/videodev2.h>
• meson

A build environment may be setup by running nix develop, or more simply using direnv: echo "use nix" > .envrc.

# one time setup
$ meson setup build

# compile
$ meson compile -C build

# run
$ build/frameworks

History

Frameworks was originally based on gqcam 0.9 by Cory Lueninghoener.

Download

ChangeLog

•	27	Apr	2026	Frameworks 0.4.0	sha256sum: 405a9a708002edf79b5460e4557b80c02288277c9aa0e327933acd914d7abff7
•	27	Feb	2007	Frameworks 0.3.7	sha256sum: bf069ea0701c0d86485aa75bd7dc367acdc2efbb9a7aa425110b8cf473dd7f08
•	03	Dec	2004	Frameworks 0.3.6	sha256sum: dc69053f5417ad43d55a07bd5e6c9eedcbc4b7f5e83d5414ecb126420f822fe2
•	12	Jul	2004	Frameworks 0.3.5	sha256sum: 10c9df0e929d819568882c3529f9cabbe09d8562b2dd8220c676d3878c6b98c2
•	19	Dec	2003	Frameworks 0.3.4	sha256sum: 00443209f0d7cc0fe71b8e096a8eaa8ca7e819756a3ab9c5e87f4f3d7258ba9b

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