WebCam Looker 3.5

WebCam Looker 3.5 provides you a friendly - user but powerful video surveillance system for monitoring and broadcasting images of your home/office to internet or mobile phone.

On movements inside or around of your property program immediately alarms (by sound, SMS, email with attached image, Skype, network messaging, external application execution, area blinking, uploading to ftp or web server). The precise motion detector can watch for different zones of any shape.

You also can record favorite TV-programs, make daylight snapshots, or monitor at evenings/weekend using scheduler. Stealthy monitor your computers screen shot and cameras as live-stream or review history of records by password from Internet using any Internet browser. Add to your images a text, time stamps, images or watermarks. Scale and rotate images.

It's easy for you to record video with sound and make snapshots by alarm or periodically and store them on disk either in cycle or until predefined disk space limit is reached.

Moreover, dynamic IP service allows you to find your computer from Internet. Dial up to Internet on demand.

Archive viewer with adjustable speed to review events faster/slower, export and remove functions.

Password protection. Unlimited number of sources.
Capture images from Web Cams, video and digital cameras (for highres images), Internet, files, TV-tuners and other video capture devices.

WebCam Looker can monitor and immediately alarm the areas around your car, courtyard, aquarium, baby cot, stove, and any other things that you like to protect from access.
Continuously monitor your store personnel and visitors, staff at office, baby nurse, child working at computer. You can view images from many live webcams via internet, mark with your text/images, archive/playback and retranslate them. You can record your flowers, then play the archive in fast mode to see how your flowers are growing.

You can simultaneously view images from different sources in real-time, including externally updated image files. If you have multiple computers with webcams, it can translate images from different computers and show/monitor/archive all of them in real-time from one computer, working alike the cameras are connected to that computer directly.
You can record your flowers, then playing the archive in fast mode to see how your flowers are growing.

With professional video-security functions, WebCam Looker is the very cost effective solution for your home or office.

WebCam Looker offers a motion control software with the functions of providing security through your webcam.

Turn your PC into a full functional Web server and publish images into Internet. You can create a whole web site or small home page with dynamically updating images.

Publish your images on personal, landscape, travel, weather or astronomical sites in real time. Used as a marketing tool - for example, for calculation of shop visitors.

WebCam Looker is the most cost effective solution for your home or office. It has all the functionality of professional video-security systems.

You don't need any special equipment. Any webcam is enough to transform your PC into supervision and safety system.

Fast to start - this solution can be setup and configured in seconds. Later, you can do more specific settings as you grow with your wishes.

Major Features:

1. Unlimited number of video sources

 The sources can be applied:

•  web cams, TV tuners, video cameras, video capture cards and devices connected through them;
•  multiport video capture cards;
•  digital cameras (allowing to publish high resolution images);
•  network IP cameras, including JPEG and MJPEG-video.
•  World Internet cameras and random slideshow;
•  local or network files;
•  image from the screen of a computer.
  

2. Movement detector

•  motion and motion absence detection.
•  rectangular and any shape areas supported, including zones around objects;
•  unlimited number of zones;
•  adjustable sensitivity for each zone;
•  separate list of event handlers (destinations) for each zone;
•  can be stopped/started automatically by scheduler or manually;
•  visualization of all movements at the main application's window;
•  immediately alarm by 12 types of destinations with recording into archive;
•  ability to react on finishing of the movement,
•  movement sustained for X number of seconds logic.
  

3. Multiple destination types

•  save static images into archive or a specified file (with optional mask);
•  save video into archive or file with automatically or manually selected compression and audio from any input
•  play sound file (useful on motion detection);
•  sending SMS messages via commercial or free gateways;
•  publishing at built-in Web server;
•  publishing at remote Web servers by HTTP upload (server-part filereceiver.php is provided. It supports authentication and history storage);
•  publishing at remote Web or FTP servers by FTP upload;
•  sending e-mail with attached image and text;
•  windows network messaging;
•  Skype message;
•  popup main window;
•  execution of programs with information on image path and motion detector state. This allows you to create your own applications or use any existing programs as event handlers of motion detected or use WebCam Looker as capture server for your other application.
  

4. Adjustable level of frame frequency

•  recording with maximal configurable frequency up to 30 frames per second. The minimum level of frequency is not limited;
•  adjustmentable frame rate for preview window.
  

 5. Marks of a photo of images
  Ability to add to at any specified place of images:

•  text
•  date / time
•  images (allowing picture in picture)
•  watermarks
•  scaling and rotation of images
  

6. Photo and video archives

•  storage of all motion detected events and of continuous snapshots or video;
•  view by categories: motion/continuous, photo/video, by course, by destination, by date and time;
•  direct play, pause, forward, backward, adjustable slow/faster speed;
•  record to disk either in cycle or until predefined disk space limit is reached;
•  open in editor or video player;
•  batch copy and remove any selected group of files;
•  adjustmentable limit of recording video files splitting;
•  remote access via internet.
  

7. Built-in Web server

•  allows to remotely view real-time images or live-view from any sources via Internet or cellphone (WAP is supported) with password;
•  allows to remotely view archive of history;
•  publish images as a destination of any source;
•  publish your own web site or home page at your computer for public.
  

  8. Dynamic IP services

•  allow to register your IP address at special dedicated server to be able to access your computer, even if it has no fixed (static) IP address;
•  allows to access your computer, even, it is inside firewall or gateway (has no external IP address).
  

  9. Internet Dialer

•  allow to dialup (connect to) the Internet only when motion detection or periodic event is occurred to send an information to Internet (sms, email, ftp upload, etc) and break connection on finished;
•  allow to keep permanent internet connection, with reconnecting if it is dropped, to access your computer (and build-in web server) anywhere from Internet.
  

10. Other features

•  wizard helping to configure this software in a few seconds;
•  flexible scheduler;
•  free fast mind game;
•  advanced settings of brightness/contrast/etc settings for video devices;
•  popup menu for quick saving video and images;
•  main window transparency and always on top modes;
•  optional automatic updates;
•  password protection of settings;
•  start on Windows boot.

Enhancements:

1. Multiple usability improvements.
2. Improvement of frozen stream restarting for IP cameras and LinkSys IP cameras compatibility.
3. Added commands execution on Startup: to mount network disks under AutoRun, etc.