Introduction H264 WebCam H264 WebCam is a 32-channel h264 remote video surveillance software for Windows. It can capture images at up to 30 fps from IP camera, USB camera, Capture card, TV board, and PTZ control and preset many IP cameras! It can help you to create web page for broadcasting live audio and video stream on Internet. This webcam software has an advanced video motion detection algorithm along with various alert functions including Email, FTP, and sound.
Recording Format H264WebCam can be configured to use various video recording formats as well. Some of the supported formats are - AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, SWF, ASF and WMV. Supported Device 1, USB Cameras which support DirectShow standard. 2, TV boards which support DirectShow standard. 3, Capture cards which support DirectShow standard. You need to install WDM driver. 4, Network IP Camera : • 01) 4XEM : WLPTS, WPTS, WFDI, W45, W90, EVS100, 4X-IP7xxx, 4X-PT71xx, 4X-PZ71xx, 4X-FD71xx, 4X-IZ71xx.
AV5105, AV5100, AV3105, AV3100, AV2105, AV2100, AV1305, AV1300, AV8360, AV8180, AV3130 . • 09) Asante : Voyager I, Voyager II . • 10) Asoni : CAM647, CAM638, CAM636, CAM630, CAM629, CAM628, CAM627, CAM624, CAM620, CAM619, CAM616, CAM614, CAM613, CAM450, CAM436, CAM435, CAM428, CAM422, CAM419, CAM417, CAM416,CAM415,CAM413 . • 11) Astak : Mole ip camera . • 12) Aviosys : IP Kamera 9070, IP Kamera 9070-CS, IP Kamera 9070-IR, IP Kamera 9060 Series .
• 23) Digicom : IP Camera 100W, IP Camera 300W, IP Camera 400W . • 24) D-Link : DCS-7110, DCS-6620, DCS-6110, DCS-6111, DCS-5610, DCS-5300, DCS-5220, DCS-3420, DCS-3415, DCS-3410, DCS-3220, DCS-3110, DCS-2120, DCS-2121, DCS-2100, DCS-2102, DCS-1110, DCS-1000, DCS-950, DCS-930L, DCS-920, DCS-910, DCS-900, DVS-301, DCS-104, DCS-5635, DCS-5605, DCS-N6240, DCS-N5442, DCS-N5440 . • 25) Dvtel : DVT-9520, DVT-9523, DVT-9420. • 26) EasyN : FS-613A-M136, F1-608A-M002, FS-603A-M401, MS-633A-A126, MS-638A-A112.
• 37) Honeywell : ACUIX_IP_PTZ_DOME (HDXA,HDXJ,HDXF,HDXG), HD4DIPX, HCD554IPX, HCS554IPX. • 38) Hunt : HLC-1NAD, HLC-81AD, HLV-1WAD, HLV-CAD. • 39) Imagiatek : ImagiaTek ip camera. • 40) Instar : IN-3010, IN-3001, IN-2905, IN-2901 .
LS-5220, LS-5220D, LS-5200HP, LS-3211-E, LS-1430-E, LS-1310, LS-2600, LS-2610, LS-2400, LS-2300 . • 50) Linksys : PVC2300, WVC2300, WVC210, WVC200, WVC210, WVC54G, WVC54GC, WVC54GCA, WVC11B. • 51) Lorex : LNE1001, LNE3003, LNZ4001, LNZ9320, LND7220, LNP5320. • 52) Lumenera : Le575, Le375, Le275, Le259, Le175, Le165, Le11059, Le045, Le075, Li045, Li175, Li165 . • 53) Megatec : iCAMView PRO, iCAMView Plus. • 54) Maygion : IP603, IP601. • 55) Micronet : SP5520. • 56) Mobi : IP 70042 .
• 65) Pixord : P-600, P-606(W), P-528, P-523(PoE), P-513(PoE), P-505(W), P-500, P-465, P-463(T), P-463DW, P-428, P-426(PoE), P-423(PoE), P-400(W/PoE), P-1500, P-1401(W/PoE), P-4514, P-8504, P-4000, P-1000 . • 66) Planet : ICA-750, ICA-550W, ICA-700, ICA-651, ICA-601, ICA-530, ICA-525, ICA-510, ICA-501, ICA-350, ICA-312, ICA-310, ICA-230, ICA-M230, ICA-M220(W), ICA-210W, ICA-151, ICA-150(W), ICA-120, ICA-110(W), ICA-108(W), ICA-107, IVS-110 . • 67) Planex : CS-WMV02G, CS-W04G.
• 79) StarVedia : IC202(w), IC212(w), IC502w, IC602, VS316m, VS306 . • 80) Swann : SW211-WIP, SW111-WIP, Max-Ip-Cam . • 81) Sweex : Sweex ip camera . • 82) Svat : CV0204DVR, CV501-16CH DVR . • 83) Topica : TOP-868HMP, TOP-788HMP, TOP-757VPC-MIR, TOP-302HMP, TOP-301HMP, TOP-107HMP, TOP-656PTZ, TOP-23XIP, TIP-264EZ, TOP-100HVS, TIP-868, TIP-777, TIP-303, TIP-136MP . • 84) Topsee : TS820, TS808, TS805, TS620, TS50, IP70 .
• 92) Weichu : PTW-980G, PT-970, PT-960, PT-930R, PT-930GR, PT-920R, ANC-606G, IC-900W, IC-800, IC-200 . • 93) Y-cam : Y-cam Black, Y-cam White, Y-cam Knight . • 94) Yoko : RYK-IP5930, RYK-IP5A30, RYK-IP3900, RYK-IP3800, RYK-IP1800, RYK-IP2280, RYK-IP1130 . • 95) Zavio : F210A, F312A, F610A, F611e, F721A, D610A, D611E, V111T . • 96) Zonet : ZVC7640, ZVC7640W, ZVC7630, ZVC7630W, ZVC7611, ZVC7611W, ZVC7610, ZVC7610W .
2. Standard Version Software. This version is not free software, you can try in 21 days for evaluation purposes. It only has 4 channels, and have no web server and stream media server functions! 3. Pro Version Software. This version is not free software, you can try in 21 days for evaluation purposes. It only have 8 channels can be used, and have no dyndns domain hosting function! 4. Deluxe Version Software. This version is not free software, you can try in 21 days for evaluation purposes.
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Registration Registration Are you still a trial user? Order now, it’s simple! What will happen after I place my order online? The registration code will be sent to you automatically through your Email after your order is confirmed. You confirmation Email generally arrives with your registration code within 15 minutes after your order is completed.
Step 3 - Copy and Paste the Registration Code Open your email that you received after your order was placed. In this email is your Registration Code. COPY the registration code the registering from the email by highlighting it with your mouse and pressing CTRL+C (or right clicking the highlighted coed and selecting Paste from the popup menu).
User Guide Overview of the H264 WebCam When you click the minimize button, in the upper right corner of the main window, the main window will become hidden but will remain monitoring the various configured video feeds. When you click the maximize button, in the upper right corner of the main window or right click the mouse button over the video feeds, the program will show the video feeds in full screen mode. Simply press the ESC key or click right mouse again and the main console view will be redisplayed.
Setting Up Overview of Setup/Configuration The four primary sections for setup/configuration of H264 WebCam are: Channel Record Motion System These options can be accessed by clicking on the blue button next to the title of the desired category from the main display window - shown below. A detailed description, as well as the various steps used throughout these four setup options, is covered in the following sections.
Channel - Setup Options By clicking the blue button next to the Channel title (shown at the left) you will enter Channel setup dialog window. This dialog window will provide the options to configure the video and audio sources for all of the available channels. There can be channels from the local computer (directly connected cameras, TV Cards, etc.) or from remotely accessible camera elsewhere on the network.
If you need to change the default ip camera setting, you can click “Detail” button which near this ip camera list :
You must check your ip camera ‘s setting, and assure the rtsp setting is same as up. And assure the rtsp port is right! If you need to reverse the pan tilt function, you can enable the “Pan Reverse” item or “Tilt Reverse” item. In Channel setting main window, the channel list displays the current running settings or those saved following the last setup. To change a channel’s setting follow the steps listed below. Step 1 - You must be sure to select a Total Number of Channels that is greater than 1.
Please Note - In this window you can press the “Delete” key on your keyboard or the “Delete Channel” button. Either of these actions will delete the selected channel settings. When you press the “Spacebar” on your keyboard or click the “Change Status” button it will change the selected channel’s status between active and inactive. When a channel’s status is set to inactive, the software will ignore it.
However, you must be sure that you have run our Exalted version at remote, and have host this H264 user name “timhillone” or “Mike” already! This H264 User is designed for people who use dial up to connect to the internet and which in turn causes the IP Address to change frequently. If this H264 User should be valid for remote user connections that are fixed/dedicated like a cable modem or even a T1.
In this dialog, you can select the type of ip cameras, or select “All ip cameras” in list, then click “Search” button, it will automatically display all ip cameras in your local network! Display ip camera type, MAC address, ip address or other information. Then you can right click one ip camera in list, and directly add this ip camera to one channel! Of course you need to set some other information such as user name and password to login this ip camera.
Record - Setup Options Click the button to enter record setup dialog window. This window will provide an entrance to setup the video and audio encoder parameter for each available channel. Step 1 - Select the channel.
Click the button to select one desired channel. If you select “All Channel” in list, your new settings will be copied to all channels! Step 2 - Select one record format in list, then change video encode type, audio encode type, bit-rate, and some OSD information! Such as channel title, date osd and time osd. a) If you want to record one channel to MP4, MOV files, you can select H264, XVID or Mpeg4 video encoder type along with AAC audio encoder.
Our software can automatically delete the oldest record file when disk is fully! So you can enable this item to automatically delete, and you can set record file days, then our software will automatically delete all the time-out record files! This parameter is a global settings for all channels!
Motion - Setup Options Click the button to enter the motion detect setup dialog window. This window will set up 3 function including motion record, scheduled record and scheduled FTP jpeg function. You can setup video motion detection settings, record durations and recording and motion recording schedules each of the available channels. Also available through this window is the configuration settings for the Email and FTP alerting options.
Step 1 -Select the channel. Click the desired button to select the channel. Step 2 - Select the day/week settings All day Mon. Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat. Sun. use this setting for every day. use this setting only in Monday. use this setting only in Tuesday. use this setting only in Wednesday. use this setting only in Thursday. use this setting only in Friday. use this setting only in Saturday. use this setting only in Sunday.
Step 4 - Set the motion detect parameter The video can be divided into a 64(8*8) grid style region. You can select(unselect) each region ‘s status independently. A region is set (or actively monitored) when the diamond icon is displayed. The software will check this region of the video for motion. You simply click the image directly to activate/deactivate the status of each region. a) The Recording Time after Motion is the duration of recording will occur when activated.
The scheduled FTP jpeg function is for scheduled ftp uploading, so it is not related to video motion function! If you have not set ftp parameter and enabled “Save to Disk” item, our software will scheduled snapshot a jpeg picture and save it to disk for you! You can select automatically ftp upload a jpeg picture to your website every 5 seconds or others. If you enabled “Save to Disk” item, our software will save these jpeg picture to snapshot directory after it ftp uploading.
This dialog’s title will show the current record path. (For example: D:\TimHO_Rec). a) Login User - All users are listed in the User Information list which displays user name and password. You can input a user name and password and the channel(s) that can opened from a remote connection. To add a users click the “Add User” button to create a new user and simply set the appropriate settings for that user. To change a user’s settings click that user from the list and change the desired parameters.
need to login when software restore from tray, you can enable “Tray Need Login” item. (3)You can set the default channels numbers window to display when software starting, such as displaying 1 channel, 2 channels, 4 channels etc. (4)You can set automatically full screen when software starting, or hide to tray when software starting.
Due to the many kinds of display cards available it is possible your specific display card doesn’t support overlay or yuy2 DirectDraw methods. Please note that changes to these settings will note take effect until you restart the software. g) Server Port - Our software have 3 server embedded in it. (1) One is web server, the default port of web server is 80, but you can change this port to others, such as 800, and can set this web server need to login.
To use the H264User first, you must input a name such as “Mike” into the settings (shown above) replacing the “TIMHILLONE” , then click the “Check” button. If this H264 User has not been previously registered you can click the “Create” button to apply the setting. At that point the H264 User Name “Mike” belongs to you. When you start this program every time, this page will show “Mike’s” status with a “√” indicating this H264User is OK. A “Χ” means this H264User verification has failed.
You can send an email alert when video motion is detected as well as ftp upload a jpeg picture to your ftp site. We recommend using the Test Email and Test FTP buttons to assure all the setting you set is ok! SSL item is for some email address need SSL transferring, such as gmail.com.
protected by user name and password. If your internet ip address have changed, these old broadcasting webpage will be invalid. So you need to re-create these broadcasting webpage again. If you use our dyndns domain hosting function, our software can use this dyndns domain to broadcast. Video Color Adjust You can use this interface to adjust the video color settings - including brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, or simply click the default button to restore the camera color to default values.
Our software can get the preset list from your ip cameras, so you can save a position to your preset list, and also can call this position by clicking. But this function also need your cameras to support! You can set our software to automatically call some camera position every 10 seconds! You can set the cycles of total numbers, you can set the call gap parameter, and can set the call camera position list, select some camera positions which you wanted to monitor.
Camera Digital PTZ Function. You can move the mouse to one channel video at first, then use mouse wheel to zoom in video or zoom out video! And you can use mouse left button to drag video to left, right, or up, down! This function only act on video displaying, don’t act on video recording! When you click multi-channel video display button, all channels will lose digital PTZ effect, and restore video displaying to origin ! Keyboard Shortcuts.
In this above image, channel 01 is in video motion alarm record mode and channel 02 is in schedule record mode. The software will first show the motion record and then show the schedule record and lastly show manual record. If these indicators are not blinking the channel is not recording. Audio The software will also listen to the channel which you have selected. When you click video in the video window the focused channel will switch and the new channel’s window will show a red borderline, see below.
When you click the button, you can play the record files! This button will lead you to open the current record directory. Because our record file is standard AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, ASF files, so you can use many media player to play it. Such as Windows Media Player, Quicktime Player, Realplayer, VLC player etc .
Click button will show six channel feeds in the window. Click button will show nine channel feeds in the window. Click button will show twelve channel feeds in the window. Click button will show fifteen channel feeds in the window. Click button will show twenty channel feeds in the window. Click button will show thirty channel feeds in the window. Click button will show the next page of video feeds. Click button will show previous page of video feeds.
Help File Click the button on the main interface, you can open the help document of this software! So you can get the detailed step of each operation of H264 WebCam.
Adjust TV channel Click the button on main interface to access the TV channel adjustment interface. Exit - Shutting down H264 WebCam When you click the recording operations.
Web Browser (B/S) Web Browser (Such as IE6.0, Firefox, Safari, Chrome etc.) Because H264 WebCam has an embedded web server it is possible use an internet browser, such as IE, to remotely view your webcam! If you run this software in your home (and you know the IP address of your home computer) you can open IE browser from another computer, say in your office, enter the IP address in dotted decimal format (such as http://56.101.32.68).
If you click “Setup” button, you can view the following setup dialog! You can select how many channels do you need to activate, because some pc have low cpu resource, so it can not view 16 channels at the same time! And you can change port and display mode in this dialog! Our default H264 Server port is 17518, but if you change this port in H264 WebCam system setup dialog, you need change this port in this setup dialog also!
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Enter a valid user name and password to log into the remote software. The default is “admin”, “123456”. After you successfully login you will be able to view remote video feeds. While connected remotely you can also click the “Setup” button and make changes to the monitoring systems display methods or channel setups! FAQS 1 What standard does H264WebCam take to capture video ? H264WebCam capture video using DirectShow standard of Microsoft.
4 Where can I view the differnece of Deluxe version, Pro, Standard, Free version ? You can view the detailed difference of our four versions from : (http://www.h264soft.com/h264webcam.html) 5 Where can I view the supported IP camera list ? You can view the supported network camera list from : (http://www.h264soft.com/supportdev.
You can start IE browser, and open url : “http://xx.xx.xx.xx:80/video.jpg?CH=1” to view the channel 1 ‘s video. 10 How can I broadcast my camera to internet ? You can run our trial version, and click “Broadcast on Internet” button, this button is near the button “About Author” , then you can select Win player viewer broadcast, Quicktime viewer broadcast, Realplayer viewer broadcast, Flash viewer broadcast, Simple jpeg broadcast.
VLC player or Quicktime player to open : rtsp://xx.xx.xx.xx:558/live.sdp?ch=1 ! of couse you need map tcp port 558 for your pc on your router! 14 How can I send text message to my cell phone with H264Webcam ? SMS text messaging is easy to do. In the Email /FTP Alert setup screen go to the field for the email TO: field. Most all phone carriers translate SMS to email. You simply format the address to the 10 digit phone number@ the carrier domain address.
16 Does H264WebCam support multi-monitor? Yes! You can enter system setup dialog, then select a monitor to display! Of course you can directly move the software window to other monitor! The default setting of this parameter is “PC have no Multi-Monitor”, you need to change this parameter to other selections! 17 Does H264WebCam support DDNS? Yes! H264WebCam Deluxe version and Exalted version can support DDNS function via two method! 1) One is dyndns supporting! You need to apply a dyndns domain from www.
Version 3.84 have add the watchdog function, so it can assure the H264WebCam software can be running for ever! The watchdog software will always check the status of the H264WebCam software, when it find the main program have been hung or die, watchdog can restart the H264WebCam software at once ! This function can assure 24/7 running! 22 How to use the keyboard shortcuts in H264WebCam software? There are 7 keyboard shortcuts in H264WebCam software.
