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Yawcam stands for Yet Another Webcam software and that's exactly what it is.More precisely Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in Java. The main ideas for Yawcam are to keep it simple and easy to use, but to include all the usual features.

ZoneMinder is a free video camera security application suite, designed for low cost DIY video security including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child or family member monitoring including nanny cam applications. It supports capture, analysis, recording, and monitoring of video data coming from cameras attached to a Linux system. Motion detection, emailed alerts and remote viewing are also supported.

ContaCam is a Free Video Surveillance software and Live Webcam solution for Windows.

XProtect® GoFree version of XProtect softwareXProtect Go is a free version of video surveillance software designed for small businesses.

Motion detection and webcam monitoring. Video surveillance with multiple IP cameras and video capture devices. For each video frame, if motion is detected, the Alarm event occurs, that returns a global motion ratio, depending of the number of cells in which motion has been detected, and the level of motion in each cell. A sensitivity grid is applied on video frames. You can adjust the sensitivity of the detection, and mask out areas of the camera view to avoid false alarms. When the camera captures video frames in a dark environment, it is possible that the electrical background noise of the CCD video cell creates fake motion detection events. It is possible to reduce the sensitivity of to the video noise by enabling the Reduce Video Noise option. When an alarm condition is detected, the program can sound an audible alarm, or send you an email with a photo. Automatically capture photos, or record video in compressed files. Webcam Motion Detector includes an advanced player that allows to play video clips, capture video frames and perform frame overlay. Each camera has its own individual monitoring and recording settings. All settings, such as alerts, photos, and video recordings can be turned on and off using the built-in scheduler. All monitoring and alert events are logged with date and time stamps. Each camera has its own scheduled on(off) times. Building upon the interface options introduced in Microsoft Outlook, scheduler includes event recurrence control and customizable Date Navigator. Access to all data is provided through a well encrypted password. Detected an intruder? Instantly play a sound of a dog barking and send yourself a framegrab directly to your mobile phone. Just as WMD can keep an eye on your home, it can do the same for your workplace. It can then start recording on motion detection and then automatically email or SMS you images of the people who have stolen your computer. Just hook up some webcams (or IP cameras) and leave program running. »

Sighthound Video detects people and moving objects in video streams for security and monitoring purposes. It runs on a PC or Mac, and uses off-the-shelf USB webcams or network (IP) cameras.

AMCap is a small yet fully functional video capture and preview application compatible with Microsoft DirectShow (formerly ActiveMovie, hence the name). It is based on the sample AMCap source code from the Microsoft DirectX 9 SDK

AtHome Video Streamer instantly turns your computer or smart devices into a video surveillance camera. Paired with the AtHome Camera app, you can access and control the security camera anywhere anytime.

Remote webcam/security monitoring free.

WebCam Monitor keeps watch over your home, office, or any location. This webcam surveillance software detects motion or noise, and triggers alerts that can record video and audio of the incident, notify you by e-mail or text message, or sound an audible alarm. It can also begin recording at pre-set intervals to maintain a record of events.

OpenCVR is an open source NVR that supports ONVIF ProfileS RTSP & MJPEG.

Video surveillance and motion capture software. Some key features are: unlimited cameras (including IP and USB cameras), motion detection, SMS and MMS and Email alerts, play sound file (useful on motion detection), adjustable sensitivity for each zone, record on detection, save video into archive or file with automatically or manually selected compression, record on schedule, registration of all events continuously by intervals or on motion detected, password protection, adding a text, time stamps, watermarks to your video. For each video frame, if motion is detected, the Alarm event occurs, that returns a global motion ratio, depending of the number of cells in which motion has been detected, and the level of motion in each cell. »

No matter whether you're at place of work, on a business trip or taking the time on your vacation, you still can keep an eye on your family and property at any time right from your mobile device.