FramePort
View and record HDMI video directly inside VS Code
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FramePort brings live HDMI and USB video capture directly into VS Code. Preview your FPGA, Raspberry Pi, camera, or other compatible video source beside your code without switching to OBS. Adjust scaling, inspect individual pixels, capture screenshots, and record silent MP4 clips—all inside your editor. Built for hardware developers, makers, and anyone working with video capture devices. Currently available as a macOS public preview with FFmpeg.
PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: source code editors and extensions · 101 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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More like this: all 101 launches in source code editors and extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes VS Code webviews can directly access USB video capture cards via the browser MediaDevices API and handle display, canvas inspection, and recording natively.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 705 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #225 of 706 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- Prequel · ph · 2026-08-30 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Framelet · ph · 2026-10-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Framecast · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- 4K Screen Recorder · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files · hn · 2026-04-21 · 301 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Replix · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Yapcam · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- 9xSnap · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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