HornetsEye is a Ruby real-time computer vision extension. It offers interfaces to do image- and video-I/O with ImageMagick/Magick++, Xine, firewire digital camera (DC1394), and video for linux (V4L).

For more information about HornetsEye have a look at the project homepage: http://hornetseye.sourceforge.net/

The new version of HornetsEye offers integration of X-Video into Qt4-QtRuby. This allows to write a media-player for GNU/Linux completely in Ruby. HornetsEye now also has an API to capture video frames using MPlayer which runs under both GNU/Linux and Windows.

You can download the most recent release of HornetsEye at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=200958