H264 WebCam Pro

H264 WebCam Pro is a lightweight application that helps users capture video streams from USB or IP cameras, video capture cards, or other devices, while offering support for various alert types.

The GUI is not very intuitive and rookies may spend some time trying to configure the dedicated parameters.

You can make the program display one, two, four, six, nine, sixteen, twenty-five, or thirty-six channel videos, switch to a full screen mode, as well as configure the channel settings in terms of video and audio parameters, remote channels, web ports, and IP camera model.

H264 WebCam Pro gives users the possibility to mute the sound, enable the PTZ automatic mode or set up its functions manually, specify the auto PTZ cycles, and select the camera position.

Last but not least, you can export the settings to CFG file format, run the program at Windows startup, take snapshots and specify their quality (JPEG), and view the used and free space on the selected drive, as well as insert user information (name and password).

Other important options worth mentioning enable users to schedule the recording sessions, set up email notifications by specifying the server, address of the receiver and sender, subject, and message. Plus, you can upload data to FTP servers as well.

The recordings can be saved to ASF, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, SWF, or AVI file format. During our testing we have noticed that the program provides good video quality, and no errors showed up throughout the entire process.

All things considered, H264 WebCam Pro bundles handy features for helping users grab video streams but it might take some time to get used to working with this tool, as the layout is not intuitive.