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Webcam Watchdog -  Ideal Remote Monitoring Solution for home and business
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With Watchdog you can record video over a long period of time and monitoring a remote location over the Internet. You can setup Watchdog to initiate video recording when there's a motion detected. Watchdog can also alert you by emailing you the captured image and play the alarm sound.

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Watchdog v4.0 (Online only) $49
Watchdog v4.0 supports one camera only. For multiple camera solution, please click here.

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Create high quality video and audio for live streaming

Watchdog provides unmatched compression ratio for realtime streaming but also ensures the best quality for your video. (Watchdog 4.0 only) (*2)

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Enhanced digital video recording

Watchdog offers enhanced digital video recording with crystal clear picture quality. By utilizing Microsoft Windows Media™ technology, Watchdog achieves up to 1800:1 compression ratio but also ensures the best quality for your video.
  • Auto deletes the oldest video file for you to recycle the hard disk space.
  • Playback video and monitor remotely while recording video.
  • Supports various compression ratio that best suit your needs.
  • Recording mode: Normal, Schedule or Motion Detection recording
  • Recording video format: Windows Media™
  • Records audio with video
Motion detection (**)

  • Supports setting up multiple areas for motion detection.
  • Supports prealarm recording.
  • Mark the motion detected areas to see the moving object easily.


  • motion detection


  • Trigger the following actions when motion is detected.

    • Email notification with captured images
    • Play an alarm sound to deter the intruder.
    • Create alarm log to record the date and time when motion is detected.
    • Launch external program.

Running Watchdog as a Windows Service

Watchdog can be run as a Windows service and becomes invisible to the user of the computer. An ideal solution for POS/ATM and situations that require fully automation on digital video surveillance.

Supports digital watermark

Watchdog can add digital watermark to the recordings to assure the video files are authentic. Allows you to authenticate a video file later to examine whether any tampering has occurred.


Access your video files remotely

Watchdog's built-in web server enables you to retrieve your video archives remotely from Webcam Watchdog server.

Video signal loss detection

Watchdog can alert you when it detects there is no signal from the camera. For example, Watchdog can alert you by email when camera's video cable or power cable is cut. (Please note USB cameras are not supported. However, this feature may work with most of the USB video capture boxes.)

Remote viewing

  • Supports remote viewing with IE.
  • Search video archive by data and time with streaming video playback. (no need to wait until entire video file being downloaded to start playing back.)
  • Allow adjusting Brightness and Contrast on remote viewing.
  • Allow turning color image to black and white on remote viewing.
  • Allow saving frames.
  • Supports zoom to 150%, 200% and full screen on remote viewing.
Remote viewing with IE
Playback recordings with Windows Media™ Player
No need to export video. You can also playback recordings with Windows Media™ Player.
Playback recordings with Windows Media™ Player


Authentication

Watchdog allows you to set up a username and password to control the access to your video. It denies network access to visitors who do not have a valid username and password. (*3)

Uploads images to your web site

Watchdog not only can be used as a web server; it also uploads images captured by your webcam to your web site.

Remote backup

You can have Watchdog stores as many pictures as you wish.

Redirect service for people with dynamic IPs (e.g. dialup users)

A special web address is reserved for you once you register Watchdog. For example, if your username is "10001", your Internet address is www.webcam123.com/icast.asp?user=10001. Therefore, users can access your Webcam Watchdog server easily. You can also click here and enter your member ID to access your webcam. (*4)

Supports digital watermark

NetCamCenter can add digital watermark to the recordings to assure the video files are authentic. Allows you to authenticate a video file later to examine whether any tampering has occurred.

Keep tracks of who accessed Webcam Watchdog remotely

Watchdog creates log files to track who accessed to your Webcam Watchdog. The log file records the time, date and IP address in which Watchdog are accessed from.

Captions

You can also put timestamp or text string on top of your video with this caption feature.

Software requirements
  • Microsoft Windows XP, 2003, Vista (32-bit), 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, Enterprise (32-bit) operating system
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
  • Service Pack 2 for Windows XP
  • DirectX 9 or above
  • Windows Media™ Player 10 or above for Windows XP.
Hardware requirements
  • Pentium III 700 MHz CPU
  • 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
  • A capture device which supports WDM driver, such as a USB camera, or one channel video capture card
  • Windows compatible sound card
  • 20 GB hard drive recommended for video recording
  • Internet connection is required for remote access
Remote Viewing Requirements
  • Windows Media™ Player 9 (Windows Media™ Player 10 recommended)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
  • Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, 7


This product requires computer professional with sufficient network and video skills to install.

Note:

1. This product is intended to be installed by video and network professional. You can always download and try it by yourself first. However, it is recommended you find a local software consultant to help you on installing and using this product if you are not comfortable configuring the video and network settings (e.g. router, firewall and proxy).

2. If your computer is behind a firewall or sharing the same IP address with a router, please make sure the hardware supports virtual server or IP forwarding. You need to open 2 ports for web server and Windows Media streaming.

3. Authentication is not available if accessed directly by Windows Media Player and Windows Media Server.

4. If your computer is behind a firewall or sharing the same IP address with a router, please make sure the hardware supports virtual server or IP forwarding. Please note redirect service, as "redirect" means, it redirects the traffic to your PC, it is a service to help you find your PC's IP address. IT IS NOT A WEB HOSTING SERVICE. NONE OF YOUR IMAGE/VIDEO ARE STORED ON OUR SERVER.

5. The software supports up to 30 frames/second on local computer. However, the actual frame rate depends on the speed of your computer hardware. The actual frame rate over the Internet/Intranet depends on many factors, mostly the network bandwidth and the traffic status. Unless cost is not a factor, do NOT expect you will see 30 frames/second TV quality video over the Internet.





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