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Active WebCam
Software Manual
The following manual contains instructions for use of your Active WebCam software.
Most common support questions can be answered using this manual.
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Release Date: November 28, 2008
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Active WebCam
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 .................................................................................................................................... 6
About Active WebCam................................................................................................................................ 6
System Requirements................................................................................................................................. 7
Installing the program................................................................................................................................. 7
Uninstalling the program ................................................................................................................................................. 7
Connecting Devices.................................................................................................................................... 8
Installing Capture Card or Frame Grabber...................................................................................................................... 8
USB Camera ................................................................................................................................................................... 9
IP Camera ....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Program's Folder Structure ........................................................................................................................ 9
Loading the Program ................................................................................................................................ 10
About the Program's Window .................................................................................................................. 10
Tips for the Program's Window................................................................................................................ 11
Program Options....................................................................................................................................... 11
Logs .............................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Watchdog...................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Checking for Upgrade............................................................................................................................... 14
CHAPTER 2 .................................................................................................................................. 15
Setting up Session.................................................................................................................................... 15
Setting up Camera .................................................................................................................................... 15
Camera Setting dialog box ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Local Video and Audio devices ..................................................................................................................................... 16
Network Cameras ......................................................................................................................................................... 16
Remote Cameras .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Cycle through local video devices ................................................................................................................................. 18
Setting Quality of Recording and Broadcasting...................................................................................... 18
Video Quality................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Sound Quality................................................................................................................................................................ 19
Scale, Crop, and Rotate Image ................................................................................................................. 19
Scale Image .................................................................................................................................................................. 19
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Crop Image ................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Rotate Image ................................................................................................................................................................ 19
Captions on Image.....................................................................................................................................20
Text Captions................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Time formatting macros ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Special wildcards: ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Image Captions............................................................................................................................................................. 22
Rectangles .................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Broadcasting..............................................................................................................................................22
Stream to Web Server................................................................................................................................................... 23
Remote Access............................................................................................................................................................. 24
Remote Access using own HTTP Server...................................................................................................................... 25
Upload Images to FTP server ....................................................................................................................................... 27
FTP parameters ............................................................................................................................................................ 27
Saving Frames into other Folder................................................................................................................................... 28
Watching Broadcasting .............................................................................................................................29
Web Page Creation Wizard........................................................................................................................................... 29
HTML code to show camera on own web page ............................................................................................................ 30
Java Applet Parameters................................................................................................................................................ 31
Displaying Still Images on Web Page ........................................................................................................................... 32
Watching camera on PDA or Cell Phone ...................................................................................................................... 32
Motion Detection........................................................................................................................................32
Motion Detection Parameters........................................................................................................................................ 33
Motion Actions .............................................................................................................................................................. 34
Schedule Events ........................................................................................................................................37
Recording Video ........................................................................................................................................38
Recording Video Clip .................................................................................................................................................... 38
Customizing Recording ................................................................................................................................................. 38
Live Recording .............................................................................................................................................................. 39
Archive Recording......................................................................................................................................................... 39
How to play back video files from within Web Page...................................................................................................... 40
Creating Archive of Snapshots...................................................................................................................................... 41
Managing Program from Command-line...................................................................................................42
PY Software Web Services ........................................................................................................................43
Streaming Video through Web Server .......................................................................................................................... 44
Dynamic IP Service....................................................................................................................................................... 44
Dial-Up Internet Connection......................................................................................................................45
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Computer's IP Address............................................................................................................................. 45
Video Conversion ..................................................................................................................................... 46
CHAPTER 3 .................................................................................................................................. 48
Questions and Answers ........................................................................................................................... 48
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