BORIS is a free and open-source software, and is released under the GNU General Public License.
The current version of BORIS is 7.13.8
An experimental release of the future main release of BORIS (v.8.6.5) is available for Linux and Windows.
The VLC media player was replaced by the MPV Media Player. Great improvements were made thanks to this, see version 8 for the details.
The user guide is available at https://boris.readthedocs.io . Feel free to contact me if you want to improve it.
Remember that it is EXTREMELY important to do regular backups of your project files to prevent the lost of data. Software can be reinstalled but your data could quite possibly be lost for ever.
Please acknowledge and cite the use of this software and its authors when results are used in publications or published elsewhere:
Friard, O. and Gamba, M. (2016), BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations. Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1325–1330.
If you find this software useful, please send me a nice postcard of the place where do you live.
Please note that the projects created with v. 7 will NOT be compatible with versions older than v. 7
See the revision history for details: https://github.com/olivierfriard/BORIS/wiki/BORIS-revision-history
All files are signed with GPG you can verify their integrity using my PGP public key.
All previous versions of BORIS are available in the BORIS releases archive or in the BORIS archive for versions prior to 2.99. Please note that the backward compatibility of a BORIS project is not guaranteed!
You can download video samples to test BORIS on your system:
See the how to report a bug page.
For suggestion and feature request please use the GitHub repository or eventually send me an e-mail.
BORIS is developed entirely with open source software.