Contaware.com

This Free Video Surveillance / Live Webcam software for Windows has an easy three steps Assistant:

1. Decide for the usage (security surveillance or live snapshot webcam)
2. Enter a friendly camera name, choose the web appearance & language
   (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Dutch)
3. Configure how long to keep the files on your hard disk

Take a look at the Assistant screenshot. For the experts there are dozens of additional configuration options, check the Settings screenshots.

With Version 3.9.0 (20th of December 2011)

• This is a stable release, download it from here
• Overall speed optimizations and memory page faults reduction, especially the motion detection engine is now less CPU intensive
• Motion detection configurable zones size
• New command to import/export motion detection zones
• External motion trigger file to support contact sensors and PIR detectors
• See the full ChangeLog

Features

• Support for all Windows versions from Windows 95 up to Windows 8
• The program is freeware and available in four languages: English, German, Italian and Russian
• CCTV Security Surveillance with motion detection and 24 hours digital video recording (DVR)
• Motion detection events presented as animated thumbnails in web browser, check the street demo and the home demo
• Motion detection actions like FTP upload, send email (SSL/TLS or STARTTLS support) with attached movement file or run an external program
• Live webcam with possibility of history tracking, see this live demo and select a past day
• Integrated web server with password protection (internet or intranet)
• Supports Webcams, WDM and DV devices and Network cameras (IP cameras)
• Unlimited parallel cameras setup
• Can be started as a windows service
• Audio storing with the 24 hours recording mode (no audio record on motion detection)
  
• Has all the FreeVimager features for snapshots editing and avi files recompression