The main package can be downloaded from the FreeBSD ports area. You may need to manually apply patches to support the different video capture cards. Above is the nv main window. The Grabber menu item lets the user to choose from either the X screen capture mode or any from any of the video capture cards compiled into the program. The Encodings menu lets the user either the NV or CU SeeMe video encoding methods.
Panels menu item enables or disables which control panels are displayed.
The scrollable area shows the active video session as a small video screen. This session can be viewed in full size by clicking the mouse on this small video screen causes the full video image to be display. Above is the video window is the result of choosing a video session from the nv's main scroll region. By clicking the mouse on the full size video screen will toggle the control area starting at the Brightness slider and ending with the capture bar to appear and disappear. For most purposes, this control box will not be needed.