Web Cam Broadcasting

ABF Photo Camera is photo capture application, that allows you to easily take a real photo snapshot from your web cam or other capture device. You ll be able to see a video, take pictures and even take timer delayed snapshots. Easy to use, but only basic options and features.

WebCam Monitor is a video surveillance system, that works with your webcam device and allows you to monitor your home/office from a remote location. It features motion and noise detection, and can automatically trigger alerts if either is detected. Alert options include sound, email message, and screen flashing. You can monitor up to 4 cameras/microphones simultaneously, configure schedules to start/stop recording automatically, and more. Additional features include video streaming, FTP upload, and detailed log.

Active WebCam broadcast webcam images from your computer or through any FTP server. It can serve video with up to 20 frames per second, allowing visitors to view a live video stream. In addition, it can be used as a surveillance system. When the program detects motion in the monitored area, it can sound an alarm, e-mail you the captured images, start broadcasting or record a video. Additional features include text captions, date/time stamps, video recording, built-in scheduler and more. Active WebCam features an easy to use step-by-step wizard that will get your live web cam stream up and running in minutes. The program can use Video for Windows or DirectShow and supports multiple cameras (cycle).

Willing Webcam is a webcam publishing tool, that can upload images from your webcam to any Web site, stores to local disk, both in cycle or on demand. It can also broadcast live video from its own HTTP server and it comes equipped with a motion detection feature. You can overlay text, date and time stamps, and an additional watermark, as well as apply several live video effects. Willing Webcam also includes a photo album to organize your captured images and videos. The album organizes your collected files and allows you to view thumbnails and full images, and also play movies.

Security Monitor Pro is a professional video surveillance application with support for multiple webcams or IP cameras, of which each can be configured individually. It includes options for continuous recording as well as motion and noise detection. If the program senses activity from one of the cameras, it can alert you via email, sound and SMS message, and also automatically record the activity for a configurable period of time. Security Monitor Pro can also be used to view a live video stream via Windows Media Player from a remote location and/or to automatically upload recording to a remote FTP server.

WebcamMax enables you to add videos, screen capture, pictures, flash and effects to your webcam broadcast and stream it through any messenger, including ICQ, AIM, MSN, Camfrog, Skype, and many others. The program installs itself as a virtual camera driver and provides a control panel that allows you to easily choose from regular webcam broadcast or one of the many effect modes. The large library of real-time video effects include animated characters, transformation effects, video frames, background replacements and much more. You can quickly switch between effects or combine them for custom results. In addition to video effects, the program enables you to broadcast video files or DVDs (with support for PIP), stream real-time desktop activity, draw directly on your video broadcast using the Doodling feature, record video conversations, take snapshots and more. WebcamMax is very easy to use and can configure itself for all popular video messengers.

ScreenCamera enables you to stream your current desktop via webcam chats with MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, AOL and other video conferencing software. You can capture your entire desktop, a specific window or region or let the camera follow your mouse cursor. The program supports picture-in-picture broadcasting which allows you to keep your regular webcam running while streming your desktop activity the same time. In addition to desktop sharing, ScreenCamera can also be used as a virtual camera driver to share your webcam with multiple applications simultaneously.

WebCam-Control-Center enables you to easily add live Webcam images to your website. It's motion detection system and auto-capture makes it easy to monitor an area with your Webcam. Schedule its Email/FTP client to upload video captures to your website automatically every few seconds, or whenever motion is detected. Captured images can be converted to .jpg or .gif formats before uploading. It can even send you an email at motion detection or periodically, and attach the picture or AVI. You can also create AVI movies easily (with or without audio), and preview instantly as you activate your camera. Additionally, you can take pictures with your Webcam and Date stamp them or apply custom captions to the pictures.

SupervisionCam turns your PC into a video surveillance system. It compares pictures from a video camera or from a local or Internet image file at intervals you define and starts optional activities when a movement is detected. Save the images as BMP or JPG, play a sound, send a message or mail, start a program or create a HTML page and upload this page including the images to a LAN or internet (FTP) server with optional dial-up support. SupervisionCam can also capture images in a defined time interval, so you can use it as WebCam too. The program offers a lot of features e.g. Fast viewer, support for more cameras, surveillance scheduler, static or dynamic motion detection threshold configuration, auto update over internet and much more.

webcamXP PRO allows you run a live streaming webcam without having to set up a web server on your computer. In addition, it offers motion detection with optional alerts, allowing you to monitor your home while you are away. The built-in webcamXP server can serve the webcam via Java, Java script or even Flash technology. You can also choose to automatically upload images to a remote FTP server instead (integrated FTP upload). The webpage that features your cam is fully customizable and even offers a built-in chat option, mp3 player, WinAmp live audio, online gallery and more. Additional features include password protection, user banning, overlay effects, detailed logging and visitor stats and more. The program supports up to 5 cameras on the same computer. Very well featured!

CoffeeCup WebCam allows you to add live Webcam images to your Web site, quickly and easily. Use the HTML wizard to create and upload your own page, or add a BuddyCam page to your existing Web site and chat online. With CoffeeCup WebCam, you can upload live images to several different servers at once, or upload images from several different cameras simultaneously. Visitors to your site don` t have to wait for Java applets to download to their computers in order to see your live images, because CoffeeCup WebCam runs the Java script itself. It also lets you create and save your own AVI movies, customize fonts for captions and date stamps, schedule your uploads, and much more. In addition, the program includes a full-featured, motion-detecting security cam. If something moves in the picture, it can alert you with an audible alarm, send you email with the images attached, and even upload the images to your Web site.

i-Catcher Sentry is a PC-video solution that provides a powerful, practical and economic alternative to dedicated CCTV security systems. Whenn i-Catcher Sentry is running, it uses your connected video device to constantly compare live images and when motion is detected, it automatically captures and saves the image to disk. The program offers sensitivity controls and user-defined masks, that let you eliminate spurious motion detections. Playback lets you review activity detected on any given day in a matter of minutes. Also included, are sophisticated alerting functions, that allow you to automatically send captured images by e-mail, or upload them to a Web site for remote viewing as soon as an alert (e.g detected motion) is triggered. Additional features include SMS message alerts , automated archiving of recorded images, auto-deletion and more. i-Catcher Sentry can operate in time lapse or web cam modes and be scheduled in advanced for selected days and times of the week.

at32 Comedy Webcam is a unique tray-based webcam application with some amazing (and often humorous) special effects. It offers automated FTP uploading to a server and can also act as a HTTP server on your local PC, so people can visit your webcam right on your local machine. In addition, you can also save the images to hard disk or archive them. What makes this program unique however, are over 50 post-processing effects including: superimposement screen (Blue Screen), overlays, captions, filters, transformations and more, that can be applied to your webcam image. at32 Comedy Webcam is free to use, however feature limited and includes a nag screen to encourage upgrade to a Pro version.

Cam Wizard enables you to turn your web cam into a motion detection system, that can capture video and automatically notify you when motion is detected. It can alert you via audio alarm, and/or immediately send the captured video to a specified email address. You can adjust the sensitivity of the motion detector, and also limit detection to a user defined area of the screen. Cam Wizard is easy to use with a simple interface.

CamUniversal is a centralized web cam monitoring solution that supports WebCams, NetCams (IP-Cams) and all other video devices, running with a Windows capture driver. It also includes network server/client functionality to send the video from all cameras from one server PC to all connected client PCs. In addition, it offers advanced motion detection, that can trigger various actions, including email notification when a motion is detected. CamUniversal allows you to monitor an unlimited number of cameras that can be viewed simultaneously. Additional features include a built-in webserver for live video viewing, scheduler, FTP upload, integrated media viewer, dial-up support and more.

CamLAN is a simple client/server web cam application that allows a CamLAN client to connect to the web cam from the local network or across the Internet (IP address). The clients can specify the size of the display and the server administrator can monitor connected clients and disconnect them if needed. You can also configure the port to use for the server, the image quality and transmission interval. The CamLAN can run in the system tray. Trial version only displays the upper half of the image.

HT WebCam is a web cam application, that allows you to keep a watchful eye on your home or office, or any place you want to monitor. It offers a motion detection mode, which captures and saves video as soon as it detects a motion within the monitored area. Once recorded, the surveillance videos are stored for later replay. You can also choose to be notified via email, or sound an audible alert. In addition, the program offers a scheduled recording mode, that allows you to record for a specified length on a particular date (with optional recurrence), and a web based interface to access the web cam display from a browser.

CamZoomer allows you to turn your ordinary web cam device into a virtual pan and zoom camera with 8x digital zoom. Of course the software is not able to physically turn or move your web cam, however it takes advantage of the fact that most USB web cams support rather large resolution (640x480), which is usually not used to it`s full extend for Internet broadcasting. CamZoomer sits between your web cam and software and automatically captures the images at the highest resolution supported by the camera, and uses the extra capture area to emulate panning and tilting of the camera. In addition, CamZoomer can be used as a splitter, allowing you to connect multiple applications to the same device.

SecuExpress turns your webcam into a video surveillance device that monitors your home or office and includes motion detection and alert options. The program includes a video server and a web interface that allow you to access the live feed from a any browser, a remote PC, Microsoft PDA or SmartPhone. It can alert you of detected motion via email, and automatically upload a snapshot to an FTP server or run a program of your choice. SecuExpress is easy to install and includes applications that can be installed directly to your supported mobile device. Other features include a video capture library and customizable motion detection sensitivity and area.

Video2Webcam enables you to broadcast video clips via popular webcam applications and messengers (even if you do not have a web cam). The program installs as a virtual video driver that can be integrated with any web cam application (Live Messenger, Skype, ICQ, Yahoo, YouTube etc.) by selecting the Video2Webcam entry as the active input source. You can add multiple video clips to a playlist and optionally loop through them. The program supports all popular video formats with the help of K-Lite Mega Codec (included) as well as CD/DVD video.

BroadCam is a streaming video server that can stream live or pre-recorded video from your PC. It automatically handles the audio and video stream compression, player format negotiation, bandwidth adjustment. All you have to do is select the capture device (for live streams) or video files to be broadcasted and the program will do the rest. It will also generate a page with all the links publish your video streams. BroadCam runs as Windows service.

StickerCam is an add-on for webcam enabled applications that allows you to insert stickers, frames, text overlays and other effects into your video chat conversations. You can choose from a variety of sticker categories and simply drag the item into place to insert it into your live webcam broadcast. You can also use the program to broadcast previously recorded .avi files, or to record an ongoing video chat session. Other features include options to apply digital zoom and panning as well as several special effects. StickerCam works with most video messengers, including Live Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! and others.

TinCam is a web cam utility that enables you to post web cam images online, record video, run a streaming web cam server and more. It supports automated capture, as well as motion detection and on-demand capture. Despite the very simplistic interface, the program has several useful features tugged away under the hood, which include text and image overlay options, email notification (with picture attachment), support for multiple web cams, scheduled captures, integrated FTP upload and more.

ConquerCam is an easy to use application for grabbing images from your web cam, preparing them with various effects and uploading them to your web site. You are able to customize ConquerCam in several ways, e.g. select how often you want to grab and upload images, which overlay effects you want to use (many of the standard Adobe PhotoShop effects are available), number and type of captions to put on your grabbed image and more. The program also comes with a built in image server, that allows you to connect to your PC by using http://yourIP:port. Additional features include image overlay, FTP logging, automatic dial-up, proxy support and more.