If you have webcam installed to your personal computer; you can make use of the webcam as security device to record the activities at home or in your office with the help of one free software.
ContaCam - Video Surveillance software
This Free Video Surveillance and Live Webcam software for Windows is extremely easy on system resources, and does not contain unnecessary bloat. It is fast, light, and versatile enough to meet all your security needs while still being very user friendly and able to run on even the most moderate systems.
An easy three steps Assistant is provided:
- Decide for the usage (security surveillance, live snapshot webcam or manual records / snapshots)
- Enter a friendly camera name, choose the web appearance & language
(English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Dutch) - Configure how long to keep the files on your hard disk
For the experts there are dozens of additional configuration options
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This is a stable release- Possibility to rotate the video source by 180°
- The Device Assistant dialog was not storing the changes to the registry (or INI file) when pressing OK. These settings were not lost because ContaCam saves everything to the registry (or INI file) when closing
Features
- Support for all Windows versions from Windows 95 up to Windows 8
- The program is freeware and available in four languages: English, German, Italian and Russian
- CCTV Security Surveillance with motion detection and 24 hours digital video recording (DVR)
- Motion detection events presented as animated thumbnails in web browser
- Motion detection actions like FTP upload, send email (SSL/TLS or STARTTLS support) with attached movement file or run an external program
- Live webcam with possibility of history tracking,
- Manual records and snapshots (video game captures, movie recording, ...)
- Integrated web server with password protection (internet or intranet)
- Supports Webcams, WDM and DV devices and Network cameras (IP cameras)
- Unlimited parallel cameras setup
- Can be started as a windows service
- Audio storing with the 24 hours recording mode (no audio record on motion detection)
- Has all the FreeVimager features for snapshots editing and avi files recompression
