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- Price: Free to try (Nag screen); $29.00 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: July 29, 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 10.9 adds support for Airlink101 SkyIPCam500 camera.
What's new in this version:
Version 10.9 adds support for Airlink101 SkyIPCam500 camera.
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Version: Active WebCam 10.9
"Softare is not bad! It workded with my AXIS cameras."
Pros: Big plus - it is not expenisve. And you can even buy it cheaper with discount coupon: ACTW-WJ3K-HAPR
Cons: But tech. support answers are too generic.
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Version: Active WebCam 10.9
Pros: So easy to use I didn't need to consult the help file. Great features! Can be run as a service. You can enable Watchdog service to monitor main program, and restart the app and/or the computer if need be. Multiple ways of viewing camera over network.
Cons: Not so impressed with registration options. 3 versions of the product are available: $29, $45, or $89. The two lowest versions don't have the Watchdog service available. With all features of $89 version available with nag screen, why buy/register?
Summary: It ran very stable (albiet around 80% CPU usage) in background on IBM Thinkcentre Intel Pentium4 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, & onboard video. Only using 1 webcam at this time. Had some issues with low frame rates (around 4-7fps) and choppy audio at 640x... read more >>
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