Vrecord is a bash-based CLI and GUI application for capturing analog and digital video signals to digital files, designed primarily for audiovisual archivists. It wraps ffmpeg-ma (a MediaArea fork of FFmpeg with Blackmagic DeckLink support) to capture from DeckLink devices, DV via FireWire, or audio-only inputs, and provides real-time monitoring through ffplay or mpv with configurable scopes (waveform, vectorscope, histograms, bit planes, etc.). The application generates preservation-oriented sidecar files including frame-level MD5 checksums, SCC closed caption files, QCTools XML reports, timecode logs, and optional access MP4 copies. Post-capture, it runs MediaConch policy checks, generates benchmark graphs with gnuplot, and can embed logs into Matroska containers. The codebase is monolithic, consisting of a single ~5000-line bash script (vrecord) that handles configuration (via gtkdialog), capture pipeline construction, and post-processing. Companion scripts include vtest for test signal output, vplay for playback with QC overlays, and cchex_to_display for real-time closed caption display. Dependencies are managed via Homebrew on macOS and Linux (including the AMIA Open Source tap). The project has been maintained for nearly a decade and is actively developed by a community of archivists and developers.