CamLAN description
See your WebCam video on all PC's within your LAN or from the Internet

With CamLAN you see your WebCam video on all PC's within your LAN or from the Internet. The CamLAN Server sends the video from the connected Video Device to all activated CamLAN Clients.

CamLAN i the ultimate solution for viewing all of your video devices from all PCs in your network.

CamLAN supports NetCams (IP-Cams), WebCams and all video devices which are working with an up to date driver for Windows.

CamLAN includes a Network Server Client functionality to send the video from all cameras from one server PC to all connected client PCs and vice versa and it includes a Webserver for direct access of all camera videos via simple HTTP request!

Here are some key features of "CamLAN":

· Picture Capture
All pictures could be captured in different formats ( JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF ).
The picture resolution could be the original resolution or a custom resolution.
The picture could be colored, grayscale, black & white, with time, date or text output, with an overly logo image, with transparency or not. The picture filename could be built from a custom selected text, the current time, the current date and/or a number!

· Video Record
CamLAN uses the DirectShow component of DirectX for the video recording. So you could use all in your system installed video and audio codecs and all installed video and audio devices for the video recording.
CamLAN supports a timestamp into the video. This timestamp could be the current time/date a usertext and additional a logo bitmap.

· Introduction to DirectShow
Microsoft DirectShow is an architecture for streaming media on the Microsoft Windows platform. DirectShow provides for high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including Advanced Systems Format (ASF), Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG), Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI), MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), and WAV sound files. It supports capture from digital and analog devices based on the Windows Driver Model (WDM) or Video for Windows. DirectShow is integrated with other DirectX technologies. It automatically detects and uses video and audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.

· Video Network
The video network is used to transfer the camera picture from all video client PCs to the video server and backwards. You have to run at least two instances of CamLAN (CamUniversal or CamPermanent) on two PCs to use the video network.

· Webserver
With the integrated Webserver all camera videos are accessible through a direct HTTP request. So you could very easily build a webpage where all your camera videos are viewable from the Internet or your home/company LAN ( Live Cam ). Additional the webserver enables the possibility to control the program from remote. You could start/stop the camera preview, the video recording and capture a picture. For each camera separately! Additional you could start all programs which are installed on your system from remote through the webserver.

· Media Viewer
With the integrated Media Viewer you could view the captured pictures and videos from your harddrive. You could delete files, create and delete directories.


Requirements:

· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0


Limitations:

· There are maximal 2 cameras possible.
· The video length is restricted to 15 minutes.