NDI Recorder
A 24/7 NDI network video recorder in two Python files. Zero dependencies, no build step.
MIT
Windows / Python 3.8+
v1.0.1
A 24/7 network video recorder in two Python files, zero dependencies, and no build step.
NVR software is normally a 400 MB installer, a background service, a web stack, a database, a licensing server, a tray icon with a gradient in it, and an annual renewal. It records a camera to a disk. That is the entire job description. Recording a video stream to a disk is a problem the computer industry solved before most of us were born, and somehow it now ships with a EULA.
This does the same job in about a thousand lines of Python that call two things you already have installed.
There is no pip install step. Not "minimal dependencies," not "just a few packages." Zero. The imports are all standard library. There is no compiler, no toolchain, no node_modules, no Docker image, no Rust rewrite, no config DSL, no plugin architecture, and no opinion about how you should organize your life.
The trick is that all the hard parts were already sitting on your hard drive:
The full documentation is in the README.