- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: May 12, 2008
- 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
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. The program performs simultaneous recording and broadcasting from 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 10.6 adds support of NC4000 and GS4000 cameras.
What's new in this version:
Version 10.6 adds support of NC4000 and GS4000 cameras.
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User reviews of Active WebCam 10.6
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Version: Active WebCam 10.6
Pros: Appears well featured, until you find that you have to upgrade to the pro version, then oh no you have to upgrade to the deluxe version if you want to do that...
Cons: Webcam image locks up for no reason, only thing you can do is restart the software! Every time you want to use a feature you need to upgrade to the next version up. Motion detection is a complete waste of time, either doesn't detect it or locks up. Total waste of money!! Leave well alone!! Oh yes, the GUI looks rubbish as well
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Version: Active WebCam 10.6
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Version: Active WebCam 10.6
Pros: Nothing
Cons: 2 weeks into the trial version I decided to stop using it. Not only is it a huge resource hog, but the program generates a lot of warnings and pop up message errors . Of course that could be specific to my computer, so I'm not going to give it a bad review just for that. However, the videos (when they're working) are very inefficient. After only a few days I have over 4 GB stored on my computer, if I'm gonna watch all of that I might as well just sit there and monitor everything myself. Also, to access your videos remotely you have to pay a monthly fee.
For an alternative try this site:
justrecorded.com
It takes pictures, not videos, but for me itâ??s perfect because I don't want to spend hours every day looking through video clips. The images are stored online so I won't have to constantly delete them from my computer. Best of all its completely free. No trial versions and no gimmicks to try and get you to pay for a web server.
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