Hello everyone, I just managed to get everything finished and tested this week, and am finally proud to release the first public version of DVR-Scan (version 1.0).

The Windows builds include all dependencies, while the source distributions will work on all platforms that have Python, NumPy, and OpenCV installed. The code should work with all versions of Python/OpenCV; the Windows build comes integrated with Python 3.5/OpenCV 3.1.

This was created after a user of my first real open source project, PySceneDetect, contacted me and wanted to know if it was possible to detect movement within a static scene (rather than detecting scene cuts/changes), making this my second "real" project.

One major feature I'm working on implementing for the next release is the ability to use a transparent image as a mask so you can ignore some parts of the frame. That being said, even without masking I've achieved great results thus far, and there are plenty of other detection parameters you can tweak some other software doesn't usually include.

Any comments, suggestions, or feedback you might have is most welcome.