CowLog Open source software for coding behaviors from digital video
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Open source software for coding behaviors from digital video CowLog is a software for recording behaviors from digital video developed in the Research Center for Animal Welfare and Department of Agrotechnology in the University of Helsinki. We created CowLog, because we wanted a free easy to use program for coding digital video.CowLog is lightweight software, which tracks the time code from video files, and records the time with the coded behavior to a data file. The program reads all common digital video formats and works also on older computers. The recommended operating system for CowLog is Ubuntu Linux 8.04, and it has also been tested on FreeBSD 7.0.The program consists of a graphical front end made with Kommander 1.3 and it uses the MPlayer media player running in slave mode to show the video files and read the time code. A set of underlying shell and Gawk scripts are used to pass commands between the graphical user interface and MPlayer.CowLog comes with an additional analysis part, which is R package Animal for elementary analyses of the data files. With the analysis program the user can calculate the frequencies, bout durations and total durations of the coded behaviors for both states and events. Animal is distribured via CRAN.Do not hesitate to contact us if you run into problems when using CowLog or simply want to let us know that you are using the software! Requirements: · Python · PyQt What's New in This Release: · The program has been completely rewritten from 1.0 and implements only a few new features and bug fixes. However, the new code base enables implementing new features, such as project configuration, in future versions. Additionally this is the first release that operates in Linux, Mac and Windows because MPlayer is now controlled with Python.

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