Getting Started
  -- Accessing Webcam 123
from the Internet
  -- HTTP Server
  -- Video Settings
  -- My Info
  -- Captions
  -- Member URL
 FTP
 Broadcast
  -- Start broadcasting
  -- Publish
  -- Edit your webpage
  -- Embed Java applet

 FAQ

Webcam 1-2-3

HTTP Server (Web Server)

1. Webcam server name: Webcam 1-2-3 will detect and display your IP address(es) automatically. You may select an IP address from the list or type in a name/IP. If you connect to Internet via IP Masquerade, you can input your IP address, which is accessible from the external network. (Note: Your domain name or IP address must be accessible from the external network. Otherwise people in the external network won't be able to access to your Webcam 1-2-3 server.)

IP address such as 192.168.x.x, 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.x is not accessible from the Internet. If your IP address is 192.168.x.x or 10.0.0.x, please configure your firewall or router. Before you configure your firewall or router, please refer to the user's manual to check if they support IP Forwarding or Virtual server. Otherwise, you may not be able to access Webcam 1-2-3 from the Internet. For more information, please refer to Network Help.

2. Authorization required: If you wish to limit the access to your webcam page, please select this option, and then enter your desired User ID and password. When connecting to your webcam page, you will be prompted to enter User ID and password.

Webcam 1-2-3 Screen Shot


3. JPEG filename: Webcam 1-2-3 captures image and saves it in JPEG format. You may change the filename of the image. You can decide whether or not to generate the JPEG image file by check or uncheck the "Save JPEG image" check box. Note: Webcam 1-2-3 generates the JPEG image file when the web server (HTTP) is on no matter the check box is checked or not.

  • Webcam 1-2-3 HTML filename
    The filename for Webcam 1-2-3 generated HTML page.


  • Create log file
    Webcam 1-2-3 creates log file for you to track visitors of your website. The log file will be created in "C:\Program Files\Webcam\Webcam123" if you have installed the software under the directory. You may find the file by using windows Explorer and open Your-Computer-Name_Date.log with Notepad to view the log.

    The log file is compatible to the log format of Apache. You can use any W3C log compatible traffic analyzer to analyze the traffic.


  • Port
    The default port used by Webcam 1-2-3 is 80. You may choose other port if the default is being used by other software (e.g. Apache).


  • Path
    You may change the path of your HTML document folder.