Web Cam Broadcasting

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 and bandwidth adjustment. All you have to do is select the capture device (for live streams) or video files to be broadcast and the program will do the rest. It will also generate a page with all prepared links to publish your video streams. BroadCam can run as Windows service. A professional version is available that allows you to inset a custom banner into the stream.

HSSVSS is a monition detection system that can be used for video surveillance of your home or office. It displays full-screen video from your web cam or other capture device and offers a customizable detection zone and sensitivity levels to fine-tune the motion detection. If the program senses a motion, it automatically captures an image, adds a time stamp and saves it to a local folder and/or remote FTP server. Unfortunately it does not offer any additional alert features or actions to be triggered by a detection so it is mostly useful for passive monitoring. Other features include a thumbnail mode, emailing of reports (manually) and support for up to 2 cameras.

Secure Cam is a motion detecting web cam surveillance software that can automatically capture a series of images whenever motion is detected in the monitored area. You can adjust the detection sensitivity, automatically archive captured still images and playback the images in sequence with the supplied viewer application. Secure Cam can monitor and display up to 99 cameras and automatically organizes captures based on the device. Other features include support for multiplexing, time stamps, text overlay and more. The program works with webcams, as well as DVR cards.

Yawcam (Yet Another Webcam Software) is a web cam software that allows you to an image or streaming video of your web cam capture. You can choose to use the built-in web server, or integrated FTP upload to send images to a remote server. In addition, the streaming server allows you to broadcast live video with optional text overlays, timestamp and more. The interface is plain, simple and somewhat slow (Java), but the program works well and is easy to use.

U-Broadcast is a video broadcast server that can be used to stream video from your webcam to Windows Media Player 9 (or newer). The viewer can connect to the video stream via your IP address and view it in (almost) real-time. In addition to broadcasting, the program can also be used to capture video to a file, and optionally upload it to an FTP server. Additional features include support for video codecs (DivX etc.) if installed on your PC, as well as command line options for scheduling, and a built-in TV-tuner viewer.

WheresJames Webcam Publisher allows you to publish images or video from a web cam to the web. It includes various tools to enhance the image, including support for overlays, text captions (custom font and color), watermarks, time and date stamping, transparency, and translucency. Other advanced features include Chroma-Key effects, motion detection, auto-emailing, video effects and more. You can even publish screenshots of your Windows desktop or integrate them into your captured images. WheresJames Webcam Publisher comes with a built-in HTML creator, that lets you create a simple web cam page from templates as well as an FTP upload tool. A setup wizard makes getting started fast and easy.

Webcam Timershot is a Microsoft XP PowerToy, that lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.