CamUniversal

CamUniversal - Is the ultimate solution for all of your video demands.
It supports WebCams, NetCams (IP-Cams) and all video devices which are working with an up to date driver for Windows. Additional it includes a Network Server Client functionality to send the video from all cameras from one server PC to all connected client PCs (RemoteCam) and it includes a Webserver for direct access of all camera videos per simple HTTP request!

From CamUniversals point of view the cameras are divided into 3 groups.

	NetCams (IP-Cams) which are accessible through their IP-address. These are cameras within your LAN, WAN or from the Internet. CamUniversal supports Netcams running in the still picture mode and Netcams which are streaming their video in the motion-JPEG (MJPEG) and in the MPEG-4 format!
	WebCams and additional video devices like TV Tuner, grabber/capture cards, etc.. These cameras are mostly direct connected to the PC via USB, parallel port or built-in. If you are using several USB devices parallel, please know, that the USB bandwidth is the limit. Use active USB hubs in critical cases!
	RemoteCams - These are all cameras which are receiving their video from a further instance of CamUniversal (CamLAN or CamPermanent). With the integrated Video Network it is possible to send and receive the video from all cameras which are running at a further instance of CamUniversal. All cameras of the first two categories could be a RemoteCam. So you could view all webcams connected to PC1 on all PCs connected to your network.

CamUniversal combines the functionality from our other products WebCam-Control-Center, CamSurveillance, CamLAN and adds additional functionality!

Motion Detector
For professional and privat surveillance purposes there is a built-in motion detector available which has numerous functions.

• select which areas of the video picture are tested for motion
• select in which time range, on which days, in which intervals etc. the detector should work
• create several jobs for the motion detector which works with different settings by day, by night, weekdays, on the weekend
• select the functions which should be activated at detection of motion:
• email sending (with many options)
• FTP files uploading (with many options)
• video recording
• external program execution
• picture capturing (with many options)
• sound playing
• protocol generation
• displaying the video window fullscreen
• showing the video window (if it was hidden)

• which runs from 8:00 to 11:00 and captures every 10 sec. a picture,
• additional create a job which FTP uploads all pictures and files from a selectable directory every day at 11:30
• additional create a job which FTP uploads every 60sec. a picture to your homepage
• additional create a job which records a video every Monday at 9:00 with a length of 5min.
• additional create a job which sends the last captured picture by email every day
• additional create a job which creates a new directory every day at 10:00 and moves all today captured pictures to it
• and much more ...
  

For each camera there could be unlimited jobs and each job has his own settings and functions!

All cameras and all functions are working simultaneous! The motion detector runs parallel to the scheduler.
Easily could the video picture of all cameras be uploaded in intervals to a webpage and additional all cameras within a company's LAN could work as a surveillance system!

Picture Capture
All pictures could be captured in different formats ( JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF ).
The picture resolution could be the original resolution or a custom resolution.
The picture could be colored, grayscale, black & white, with time, date or text output, with an overly logo image, with transparency or not. The picture filename could be built from a custom selected text, the current time, the current date and/or a number!

Video Record
CamUniversal uses the DirectShow component of DirectX for the video recording. So you could use all in your system installed video and audio codecs and all installed video and audio devices for the video recording.
Additional CamUniversal supports a timestamp into the video. This timestamp could be the current time/date a usertext and additional a logo bitmap.

Introduction to DirectShow
Microsoft® DirectShow® is an architecture for streaming media on the Microsoft Windows® platform. DirectShow provides for high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including Advanced Systems Format (ASF), Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI), MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), and WAV sound files. It supports capture from digital and analog devices based on the Windows Driver Model (WDM) or Video for Windows. DirectShow is integrated with other DirectX technologies. It automatically detects and uses video and audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.

Video Network
The video network is used to transfer the camera picture from all video client PCs to the video server and backwards. You have to run at least two instances of CamUniversal (CamLAN or CamPermanent) on two PCs to use the video network.

AVI Creator
With the integrated AVI Creator you can generate videos from single images. For example you can capture single images from your camera every 30sec. through the whole day and create a video from all images showing the day in fast motion. Or you can observe the sky, capture an image every minute and generate a video showing the movement of the clouds!

Webserver
With the integrated Webserver all camera videos are accessible through a direct HTTP request. So you could very easily build a webpage where all your camera videos are viewable from the Internet or your home/company LAN (Sample). Additional the webserver enables the possibility to control the program from remote. You could start/stop the camera preview, the motion detector, the scheduler, the video recording and capture a picture. For each camera separately! Additional you could start all programs which are installed on your system from remote through the webserver.

Media Viewer
With the integrated Media Viewer you could view the captured pictures and videos from your harddrive. You could delete files, create and delete directories.

Multiple languages are supported
english german spanish french italian turkish polish danish chinese norwegian
Additional languages follows from time to time!

System Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

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