- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 19, 2005
- Total Downloads: 2,903,782
- Downloads last week: 1,162
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 109 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on December 07, 2008
Ease of use is the hallmark of the surveillance app Active WebCam, which lets you monitor multiple cams and record footage for later use.
A wizard guides you through the camera setup process, after which you can send video with audio to any computer on your network that has app installed, soundless video to HTTP users, or screen caps to FTP users. You can set access permissions for users and groups, as well as the number of visitors allowed. Active WebCam also can e-mail you footage when a camera detects motion, perfect for monitoring that sleeping tyke.
The Tools menu lets you create a Web page with custom fonts and colors where you can post videos and stills. There's also a versatile video conversion tool to change captured video into AVI or MPEG format. The process took up all our CPU cycles--as the bottom utilization bar kindly displayed--but otherwise the app's footprint is small.
Aside from the helpful wizards, each menu window contains a brief explanation of what each feature does and a link to the Help topic. With surprisingly little effort and half a dozen cams, most users could create a decent surveillance system with Active WebCam.
Publisher's description
From PY Software :Active WebCam captures images up to 30 frames per second from any video device including USB and analog cameras, TV boards, capture cards, frame grabbers, camcorders, and network IP cameras. The program broadcasts captured content from your computer or uploads it to an FTP server. Broadcasting can be viewed using any Internet browser; no plug-ins or downloads are required. The program performs simultaneous recording and broadcasting from an unlimited number of cameras.
Your camera(s) can be used as part of a surveillance system. When the program detects motion in the monitored area, it sounds an alarm, e-mails you captured images, starts broadcasting, or records video. Live broadcasting as well as recording can be password protected, so all video and audio are scrambled and cannot be watched without a valid password. Version 5.5 adds ability to capture audio from Toshiba IP cameras.
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User reviews of Active WebCam 5.5
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Active WebCam 5.5
"Very Buggy. Easy to Use. Nice Functionality"
Pros: Very nice interface and features. I've had a hard time in the past finding streaming video programs that would work with my Canon ZR25 digital camcorder. WebCam handled it well.
Cons: Sadly, Active WebCam appeared rather buggy. The program crashed repeatedly, sometimes leaving zombie processes, other times not. I'm not sure the source of the problems. Could be its interaction with my computer. Might be inherent flaws in the program.
I was running this on an Windows XP Pro computer, 2.0 Ghz AMD, 512 MB RAM.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Active WebCam 5.5
"Problem getting to work and uninstall"
Pros: Great user interface but could not get the webcam to function properly.
Cons: Tried to uninstall and it made internet explorer highly unstable. Thanks to system restore I was able to recover.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Active WebCam 5.5
"ver 5.4 and Trendnet Cameras"
Pros: Great program, lots of features.
Cons: Software worked great with my webcam. Decided to upgrade to an internet IP camera. Went through the list of ones they claimed were compatible, and chose the Trendnet IP200 (good value). Great camera, but unfortunately does not work with the software. Spoke with both tech support from trendnet (who say not compatible) and active webcam and cannot get it to work. Not sure why they say it is compatible when it is not. Anyway.. program works great, just isn't compatible with the trendnet ip200. Make sure your camera works first.
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