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ContaCam Changelog

What's new in ContaCam 9.9.23

Dec 11, 2023
  • Disallow connecting multiple times to the same Camera
  • Restart audio input device in case no audio data reaches us for 30s
  • New settings menu entry to change IP/Host of a network camera
  • Web interface works now well when embedded inside an iframe
  • Added support for Lorex
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.57 and PHP 8.2.10
  • (Apache and PHP both with OpenSSL 3.1.2)
  • Hardened Apache security by disabling the HTTP TRACE method
  • Updated mailer program to mailsend-go v1.0.10

New in ContaCam 9.9.22 (May 16, 2022)

  • Fixed a color shift problem happening with some cameras (thanks to
  • Ján Kovác for notifying the issue)
  • Added support for HeimVision
  • Added support for DroidCam and DroidCamX which are Android mjpeg
  • camera streaming Apps
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.53 and PHP 8.0.17
  • (Apache and PHP both with OpenSSL 1.1.1n)

New in ContaCam 9.9.21 (Mar 22, 2022)

  • Fixed a bug where a Camera failure email could be sent on camera startup (thanks to Herb Berg for reporting and researching that)
  • Added support for Reolink with H.265 streams
  • Added support for Yudor

New in ContaCam 9.9.20 (Dec 7, 2021)

  • Improved saving of animated gif / mp4 in case of unstable rtsp streams
  • To fine-tune the motion sensitivity there is now the possibility to record the zones where motion is detected
  • It's now possible to include milliseconds in the frame timestamp
  • Updated to ffmpeg 3.4.9

New in ContaCam 9.9.19 (Aug 26, 2021)

  • Introduced profiles to configure up to 4 commands per camera
  • Added magnetic/snapping borders to the camera windows
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.48 and PHP 8.0.7 (Apache and PHP both with OpenSSL 1.1.1k)
  • Because many users expressed security concerns we removed all "Show password" checkboxes
  • Dropped Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 support

New in ContaCam 9.9.18 (Jun 9, 2021)

  • Fast video saving option (be aware that this new setting will generate bigger files)
  • The RTSP stream decoder with UDP transport is now more fault tolerant
  • Daily summary video frame interval can now have any value, before it had to be bigger or equal to the live snapshot rate
  • Changed ffmpeg build toolchain from mingw to msvc

New in ContaCam 9.9.17 (Apr 19, 2021)

  • We have got a code signing certificate
  • Updated to ffmpeg 3.4.8

New in ContaCam 9.9.16 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Web interface always displays 12 video thumbs per page as responsive 4x3, 3x4, 2x6, 1x12 grids
  • Web interface supports now passing the credentials as parameters like: http://CONTACAM-PC:PORT/CAMERA_NAME/poll.php?username=USER&password=PW
  • The rec dot overlay is now displayed with an outline border and the saving progress is shown with a small horizontal bar instead of text
  • Added support for Ezviz
  • UDP Multicast transport possibility for RTSP streams
  • Enabled Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) with /DYNAMICBASE

New in ContaCam 9.9.15 (Feb 15, 2021)

  • The web interface trash button is now definitively deleting the recordings instead of renaming them to .recycled
  • Uninstaller has got a "Keep the settings for later use" checkbox
  • Limit the maximum number of encoding threads to 16 as H.264 can have problems above that count

New in ContaCam 9.9.14 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • Updated instructions on application background

New in ContaCam 9.9.13 (Jan 4, 2021)

  • In bottom toolbar re-added Camera Settings button and always pop-up a menu for all buttons with an arrow added F1 key for "Online Help", F3 key for "View RECs in Web Browser" and F4 key for "View RECs in File Explorer"
  • Added support for Escam

New in ContaCam 9.9.12 (Nov 18, 2020)

  • Removed Motion vs. Continuous REC option from Camera Basic Settings because that can be configured with the REC toolbar button
  • Added support for TP-Link NC2XX, NC4XX and Tapo cloud cameras
  • Some smtp servers don't say ESMTP in the greetings even if they support it; for this reason we now force EHLO when user credentials are provided (thanks to Hajo Ottenbacher for researching that)
  • Trim leading/trailing spaces for entered donation email address

New in ContaCam 9.9.11 (Oct 12, 2020)

  • Fixed locking prev-video/next-video/back-to-summary/download buttons for big video files on Chromium-browsers and Win7/8.x-IE
  • In web interface the video player speed can now be reduced or increased up to a factor of 8x. Moreover it's possible to forward step frame by frame (Firefox-browser supports that best)
  • Made the configuration.php saving more robust to avoid that NULs get written into that file when a crash/hang happens

New in ContaCam 9.9.10 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Because the video resolution of some cams changed for a few seconds and afterwards restored, we decided to never reset the sensitivity settings of the single zones (it's up to you to re-configure them if you change the video resolution or the zones size)
  • A warning message is now shown when frames get dropped because of memory shortage and system overload
  • Added the "Show password" checkbox
  • Small but nice enhancements to the web interface

New in ContaCam 9.9.9 (May 2, 2020)

  • Optimized camera preview
  • Security enhancements for the web interface
  • Main web interface index page has now the same button style
  • as the other pages and has also a Back to Top button
  • Web interface logout button is always the most left one
  • Support for Srihome and older Zavio cameras
  • Raised the email send timeout from 20 to 60 sec
  • Avoid creating an empty previous day folder
  • Removed the unnecessary red dot symbol showing in live snapshots (the created videos are already a feedback for recording)

New in ContaCam 9.9.8 (Feb 20, 2020)

  • Web interface has got bigger buttons
  • New statusbar pane which shows slowest saving speed
  • Dropping frames when the available commit size gets low
  • Fixed statusbar for high dpi devices

New in ContaCam 9.9.7 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Supporting high DPI aware NSIS 3 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
  • In case that the camera framerate cannot be reduced there is a saving framerate divider parameter in Camera Advanced Settings dialog (removed the saving speed adaptation logic introduced in 9.9.5)
  • Better support for Samsung cameras
  • Web interface got a Back to Top button
  • Removed Camera Basic Settings toolbar button as this command is already under the Settings menu

New in ContaCam 9.9.5 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Video saving speed adapts itself to the available system resources
  • Optimized small video (animated gif) creation and play time
  • Bottom toolbar menus must not cover their own buttons

New in ContaCam 9.9.3 (Nov 23, 2019)

  • New CAMERA.bat batch file to control the camera source on/off state
  • Daily summary video will not record black frames when source is off
  • Added a recording start picture saving checkbox
  • Http multipart parser is more fault tolerant
  • (fixes VLC multipart streaming)
  • New %name% command execution variable containing the camera name
  • Support Floureon, JideTech and Wyze RTSP cameras

New in ContaCam 9.9.1 (Oct 11, 2019)

  • Fixed a bug which prevented the Camera Basic Setting dialog to set the correct sensitivity for the chosen usage

New in ContaCam 9.9.0 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Better support for high contrast themes
  • Frame Annotation possibility with the new toolbar button
  • More intuitive detection zones/mask toolbar button. Single zones
  • changes are now saved immediately
  • Configurable frame interval for the daily summary video
  • Removed the rudimentary scheduler in favour of a more flexible way
  • to control ContaCam through the Windows Task Scheduler
  • Added example buttons for typical external commands
  • Web interface multiple selection deletion(sponsored by Grün Stadt Zürich)
  • The web interface video player was enhanced with a 2.0x play speed
  • In web interface we have now only one camera source obscure button (like in ContaCam program)
  • Updated installer with an improved closing logic for Apache server
  • Added a new Generic IP camera entry
  • Fixed mjpeg support for the MotionEyeOS camera (thanks to Dave Smith for reporting the problem and helping find the bug)

New in ContaCam 9.7.0 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • In web interface showing start time if hovering over small videos
  • Reload web page with no parameters if today selected
  • Small fixes

New in ContaCam 9.5.0 (Apr 21, 2019)

  • The daily summary video creation is now configurable under
  • Camera Basic Settings
  • Fixed download problems for daily summary videos
  • Increased the download performance of thumbnails and videos
  • Updated the "Network / IP Camera" dialog to show also the assigned
  • camera name in the "Camera IP or Address" drop down list
  • Support Sumpple RTSP cameras

New in ContaCam 9.0.9 (Feb 18, 2019)

  • The web interface full screen live snapshot image can now be configured to either maintain the aspect ratio or to fully stretch. Do not adapt the frame time font size when the DPI changes, this because connecting through RDP can modify the DPI automatically. Possibility to display the system uptime in each frame
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.38 and PHP 5.6.40with INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE patch discussed in PHP bug #77580
  • Apache and PHP both with OpenSSL 1.0.2q)

New in ContaCam 9.0.7 (Dec 27, 2018)

  • - The web interface full screen image maintains the aspect ratio
  • (not supported by IE)
  • - Store the temporary daily summary snapshots in a subfolder
  • - Removed the possibility to have "snapshot each" under 1 second

New in ContaCam 9.0.1 (Sep 20, 2018)

  • Fixed the HTTP header fields parser to allow any number of
  • spaces after the colon (also 0 spaces like used by Foscam)
  • Translations done
  • Re-added the possibility to delete recordings from the web interface

New in ContaCam 9.0.0 (Sep 10, 2018)

  • ContaCam is now DONATIONWARE
  • Privacy mask option: removed detection zones can be obscured
  • Document tabs have got a close button
  • Simpler Camera Advanced Settings dialog
  • Dropped .avi video file support, always saving in .mp4
  • Manual / continuous recording is now performed by the motion engine (it makes no sense to have a separate continuous recording engine)
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.34 and PHP 5.6.37 (both with OpenSSL 1.0.2o)
  • Using better random generators
  • Removed direct FTP support, command execution has been enhanced and examples are provided so that it's possible to upload with any command line tool
  • To enforce security removed the possibility to delete recordings from the web interface
  • Removed the possibility to hide the toolbars because they provide important commands not available elsewhere
  • Removed the possibility to hide the statusbar because it notifies about important issues like buffer shortage

New in ContaCam 7.7.0 (Feb 19, 2018)

  • To start the ContaCam web interface as a Web App it's now possible to create a home screen icon from your mobile browser's menu (it says something like "Add to Home")
  • The web interface live view displays a hint when a motion is being detected
  • Logout button for the web interface
  • Option to get an email alert when AC 100-240V goes OFF
  • Configurable web server SSL certificate files
  • The delete cameras dialog is closing open devices automatically
  • Added metadata title to created video files
  • Hold down the Ctrl key to keep the aspect ratio while resizing a camera view

New in ContaCam 7.5.0 (Oct 18, 2017)

  • For network devices when starting try to connect infinitely (dropped the "Autostart a network camera each" option as it is not necessary with the new connect infinitely feature)
  • Tabbed document interface (TDI)
  • Show a warning if sleep/standby/hibernation enabled
  • Use the Ctrl key to switch between Add and Remove Detection Zones
  • Fixed recent changes/problems of window.innerWidth/Height
  • In web interface dropped swf (flash player) backwards compatibility
  • Dropped Windows XP and Windows 2003 support (ReactOS support has also been dropped because it only implements the Windows 2003 API)

New in ContaCam 7.0.0 (May 14, 2017)

  • Native RTSP cameras support (dropped VLC re-streaming of RTSP cameras)
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.25 and PHP 5.4.45 (both with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips)
  • Possibility to obscure the video source from the web interface
  • All cameras can now capture audio from a selectable source (removed Axis HTTP audio support, please use RTSP)
  • New status-bar pane showing the maximum overall movement detection buffers size

New in ContaCam 5.5.5 Beta 5 (Mar 20, 2017)

  • RTSP/H.264 HD network cameras are now working in latest beta (see beta under Download). We would be glad if you could support the development with a Donate Button, telling us whether your camera is listed in ContaCam Capture - Network dialog and working (if it's not the case we are happy to support also your maker/model)

New in ContaCam 5.5.0 (Feb 20, 2017)

  • If a DirectShow device path is not defined use the device name as device path (thanks to Shaun Daigle for reporting the problem)
  • Support nonce reuse (-> faster polling for digest protected cams)
  • poll.php and push.php if called directly use http basic auth
  • Updated lftp.exe to version 4.6.6
  • Fixed memory leak of CRT threads under Windows XP

New in ContaCam 5.3.0 (Nov 21, 2016)

  • Password protect all cameras with form based authentication
  • Attach a snapshot to the daily email notification
  • Using the AVIR image resizing algorithm designed by Aleksey Vaneev

New in ContaCam 5.1.0 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • Made the application High DPI Aware (displays well on 4K monitors)
  • Generates smaller mp4 files with the same quality
  • Added the possibility to send a daily email notification to make sure the device works properly
  • Increased the mailer timeout from 5 to 15 seconds (thanks to Joe
  • Hannigan for reporting a problem with some slow smtp servers)
  • Fixed email sending on Windows XP (thanks David Greig)
  • Encrypted settings (like passwords) are now exportable and work well if used on another computer or by another logon user
  • Compiling with Visual Studio 2015 (ContaCam runs on Windows XP SP3 / Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher)

New in ContaCam 5.0.9 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • All detection frames are buffered to memory (or page file)
  • Full stretch the videos in web interface
  • Corrected FTP to first upload the full video/jpeg version and then the corresponding thumb. That's necessary because in web interface the thumbs point through a link to the full versions
  • Emailing files as plain attachments and not embedded in html as before because some email clients are not display embedded images properly
  • Do not fail when no DV media present

New in ContaCam 5.0.7 (May 9, 2016)

  • Email alert when device unplugged or not reachable
  • Faster and more reliable FTP upload support
  • Web interface video play rate buttons: 0.25x and 1.0x
  • Web interface has now an optional trash / delete button
  • Bigger toolbar buttons
  • Added support for some Samsung cameras
  • Email settings auto-fill for most common smtp servers
  • Re-added the option to email a jpeg snapshot on motion detection (with respect to previous implementation it is sent really fast)
  • Removed the standby and hibernate disabling feature introduced with
  • version 5.0.1 because it also blocked entering these states manually

New in ContaCam 5.0.5 (Jan 9, 2016)

  • Added Dahua and Hikvision support
  • Made the web interface more mobile friendly - Malformed jpeg frames reaching ContaCam are now not stopping it from running (thanks to Mark P for reporting the problem and helping find the bug)
  • Added crash dump support and verbose diagnostic logging
  • If no attachment is selected the motion detection email is sent really fast (before it was only sent when the detection storing was done)
  • Configurable minimum time between motion detection email messages
  • Removed the possibility to email jpeg snapshots on motion detection as it rarely catches what's moving. The Small Video (animated gif) is by far better suited as it really shows the movement (if its size is too small then adjust that under Save Small Video - Thumbnail Size)

New in ContaCam 5.0.3 (Nov 18, 2015)

  • Hard-disk info display
  • Show/hide commands for Statusbar and Toolbars
  • Fixed crash opening "ManyCam Virtual Webcam"
  • Removed audio file playing support as there are better programs that can reproduce many more file types
  • Fixed hearable ticks while saving Axis ip camera audio

New in ContaCam 5.0.1 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Web interface has a new html5 calendar picker (browser must support it)
  • Enhanced ContaCam service installation
  • Audio support for Axis ip cameras (thanks to Michi for sponsoring the development)
  • Disallow standby and hibernate when there are cameras running
  • To clean-up after a possible crash ContaCam deletes now its temporary folder content on startup
  • Web interface avoids switching IE to compatibility mode when opened with the computer's NetBIOS name
  • Full Vietnamese language support

New in ContaCam 5.0.0 (May 20, 2015)

  • Goodbye Flash Video: .swf files have been replaced by .mp4 files which all modern browsers and smartphones can play
  • Goodbye Html Frames: web interface improved for mobile devices
  • Detection frames are now buffered also to HD and not only in RAM (this avoids splitting a detection sequence into many files)
  • Configurable minimum disk free space (works now also for network shares and symlinks)
  • In audio input dialog the correct entry is selected for devices having the same name
  • Installer adds now the Start Menu entry only for the Current User
  • Removed Fullscreen Browser as it cannot display HTML5 videos
  • To avoid troubles in service mode from now on it's not possible to associate files to ContaCam (please use FreeVimager for that)
  • Because of web server miss-configuration danger the possibility to move the individual camera folders in Camera Basic Settings dialog has been removed (advanced users can create junctions, symlinks or run a .bat script on detection to move/copy the video files to another location)

New in ContaCam 4.9.9 (Nov 5, 2014)

  • Possibility to configure Recording Segments of 15 min. and 30 min. (if upgrading please check/fix the recording segments under Camera Advanced Settings - General tab)
  • In email configuration dialog it's now possible to setup a personalized subject line with insertion of variables
  • Improved detection zones editing tool
  • Dropped DirectX (IDirectDraw7) drawing support because it is obsolete and poses stability and in some cases even memory leaks problems on Windows 8/8.1
  • Added unicode support to ContaCamService console
  • Fixed NV12 and NV21 support for some video resolutions
  • Licensed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3

New in ContaCam 4.9.7 (Aug 26, 2014)

  • New camera delete toolbar button
  • Configurable maximum camera folder size (that's useful when recording to a cloud storage service with limited space)
  • Faster avi video recording
  • Web interface has gotten a button to hide date navigation and live preview so that detections can be watched better.
  • Hint: in your preferred browser press F11 to enter full-screen
  • Support NV12 and NV21 web camera formats
  • Renamed: Device Assistant -> Camera Basic Settings, Device Settings -> Camera Advanced Settings
  • Simplified video encoding settings by removing the bitrate parameter and dropped vorbis, flac and mp2 audio encoding support in installation folder there is a new MasterConfig.ini file which determines the configuration files location, the temporary folder location and whether to use the registry or an ini file

New in ContaCam 4.9.5 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • Support Foscam, Tenvis and Clones mjpeg cameras in network dialog
  • Credentials are now typed into the 'Connect To' network dialog making it possible to edit them later on
  • Avoid leading and trailing whitespaces in directx device names
  • Fixed 'Out of memory' error message when joining a huge amount of avi files (more than 100)
  • Verify HTTP/1.1 keep-alive support because some ip cams do not follow the specifications
  • Possibility to configure an autostart delay between network devices. Useful for wireless networks which tend to congest if all IP cams start at the same time
  • Increased network timeouts
  • Made mjpeg video decoder more fault tolerant
  • Fixed service installation failure when using a Windows 8
  • Microsoft Account (thanks to Paolo Seveso for reporting that)

New in ContaCam 4.9.0 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • Added Internet Explorer 11 support
  • Added support for ACTi and some newer Intellinet ip cams
  • Global toolbar buttons for Browse and Browse Files commands
  • Motion scheduler has got a 'detection disabled from..to and on'
  • The minimum font size for frame time, for detection indicator and for detection save/email/ftp progress is now configurable
  • Better support of OmniVision webcams
  • Fixed memory leak for cameras producing sort of unusual MJPG frames (thanks to Mitko for sending me the Neo NC-78 webcam)
  • Possibility to store temp files under the cameras root folder
  • Command is now executed when detection is confirmed by filter and not on first movement frame
  • First version especially optimized for Windows XP and higher
  • Dropped support for theora encoding because many modern players are not able to play avi files encoded in such a way

New in ContaCam 4.7.0 (Jun 1, 2013)

  • Fixed the lost motion detection configuration zones bug seen when applying the Assistant Settings or when opening and closing ContaCam quickly

New in ContaCam 4.5.0 (May 15, 2013)

  • Possibility for millisecond snapshot rates
  • Delete old files if the free disk space gets lower than: MIN(10% of HD space, 10 GB)
  • Added support for Foscam FI9821W, FI9801W and FI9802W (update Foscam firmware to the latest version!)
  • Removed Capture - Avi Play command because vlc can be used to stream an avi file to multipart/x-mixed-replace mjpeg

New in ContaCam 4.3.0 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • Split the 'Other HTTP Device' mode in Server Push and Client Poll
  • Swf snapshot history file is now correctly created even if restarting ContaCam (snapshots preceding restart are not lost)
  • In Device Assistant added a button to move the camera folder; under Tools menu there is the possibility to move all camera folders in one command
  • Live snapshot names can now be configured
  • Increased support from 15 to 100 DirectX devices
  • In log messages the user assigned device name is now shown
  • For microapache set MaxKeepAliveRequests to 0 (=No Limit) to avoid frame jumps which were happening when the keep alive request count reached 0 and a reconnection was necessary
  • Longer detection files option introduced in version 4.0.5 is now always on
  • Removed UDP networking because it was ContaCam's proprietary
  • streaming protocol not compatible with any current standard (it's still possible to stream a video source through the web server, a FAQ entry has been added illustrating that)
  • Removed manual record pause command which was of no use

New in ContaCam 4.1.0 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • In the web interface it is now possible to click on the live image to see it in fullscreen (to get this new feature run the Device Assistant for each camera)
  • Closing the Device Settings dialog was not always storing the configurations to disk
  • Fixes for HTTP requests, HTTP parser and HTTP authentication
  • Fixed absolute URL issues with HTTPS servers
  • Added Bulgarian web interface language

New in ContaCam 4.0.9 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • On ContaCam start the unplugged WDM devices are now popping-up the new error message box which permits to clear autostart

New in ContaCam 4.0.7 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Fixed possible timezone problem's by getting browser's timezone and setting it in PHP
  • The Other HTTP Device option of the Network dialog supports many more ip cameras and performs higher frame-rates because it first tries server push mode
  • Device autostart is now not cleared when camera is unreachable (autostart can be removed in popping-up error message box)
  • Motion detection emails include now the camera name
  • Better Hotmail (Windows Live) email sending support

New in ContaCam 4.0.5 (Aug 28, 2012)

  • In Movement Detection tab there is a new option to generate longer detection files so that most single detections are not split anymore into several movies
  • The movement detection engine does now fast memory freeing when saving animated gifs
  • Fixed crash when the detection pre-buffer is set too big with high resolution and high frame-rate cameras
  • Optimized network buffers
  • For avi files store detection or record start date and time in metadata title

New in ContaCam 4.0.3 (Aug 10, 2012)

  • Fixed uniqueness of temporary subdirectories
  • ESC key always exits the program if set so in Global Settings
  • Icons update

New in ContaCam 4.0.1 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • Fixed uniqueness of temporary files
  • Motion detection scheduler has now day of week check-boxes
  • Allow a snapshot rate of 0 (choose Full Rate in Assistant Dialog) in which case the maximum possible rate is used. Usually that corresponds to the frame-rate, but if the hard-disk is slow it may be less

New in ContaCam 4.0.1 Beta 3 (Jul 10, 2012)

  • Fixed uniqueness of temporary files
  • Motion detection scheduler has now day of week check-boxes
  • Allow a snapshot rate of 0 (choose Full Rate in Assistant Dialog) in which case the maximum possible rate is used. Usually that corresponds to the frame-rate, but if the hard-disk is slow it may be less

New in ContaCam 4.0.0 (Jun 16, 2012)

  • Audio also for detection movies (both avi and swf files)
  • It's now possible to set a relative sensibility for the single detection zones: set a percentage through the right-click context menu while in detection zones mode and then draw
  • Within a day the detection movies are now tagged by a number: 1 .. detection movies count
  • Live De-Interlacing works now for all capture formats, no need for rec/det time De-Interlacing
  • Fixed a bug in the web interface which prevented showing recs, detections and snapshots with the same timestamp (only one of them was shown)
  • Introduced variables like %avi%, %gif%, %swf%, ... passed as parameters in command execution on detection end
  • UDP networking lowered default fragment size from 1400 bytes to 512 bytes so that it works well for all network types

New in ContaCam 3.9.9 (May 2, 2012)

  • Possibility to rotate the video source by 180°
  • Moved the De-Interlace and the Rotate 180° commands from the Capture menu to Device Settings - General Tab
  • The Device Assistant dialog was not storing the changes to the registry (or INI file) when pressing OK. These settings were not lost because ContaCam saves everything to the registry or INI file) when closing

New in ContaCam 3.9.7 (Mar 27, 2012)

  • Added support for MJPG and M420 capture device formats
  • Moved Movement Detection mode selection box to bottom toolbar
  • Moved Assistant from the Device Settings tabs to its own dialog box

New in ContaCam 3.9.5 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Web interface camera selection with previews
  • Manual snapshot command saves now directly to a JPG file (old behaviour still available through a Copy + Paste)
  • On detection send email with all possible combinations of Animated GIF, AVI and JPG attachments
  • Animated GIFs are now entirely stored (before this version the engine stopped saving with the last detection frame)
  • Added client poll mode for Edimax IP cams
  • Added support for TP-Link IP cams
  • Motion detection command execution start can be configured: on first movement frame or after detection save,email,ftp
  • Motion detector can now be set to: Off, Trigger File, Software or both
  • Added a Delete Camera Folder(s) command in Tools menu
  • USB and DV cams are now auto-reconnected when replugged (for network devices this is already the case)

New in ContaCam 3.9.0 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • Overall speed optimizations and memory page faults reduction, especially the motion detection engine is now less CPU intensive
  • Enhanced movement detection pre-buffer
  • Motion detection configurable zones size
  • New command to import/export motion detection zones
  • Motion detection command execution starts now on detection
  • begin and not on detection end as before
  • External motion trigger file to support contact sensors and PIR detectors
  • 10% HD size limit check is now each 10-15 min and the
  • deletion of old files is more balanced between cameras
  • Updated tutorials to reflect this version 3.9.0
  • Removed false detection with blue and none blue zones because it could end up deleting important detections when a false detection occurred together with a true detection and this even more if it was not well configured!
  • Removed old VfW support, removed unused rec size segmentation and post recording

New in ContaCam 3.7.0 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • Shutdown MicroApache web server in a gently way
  • Fixed network Autostart which sometimes was not working (especially when Other HTTP Device was selected)
  • Added configuration setting for luminosity change detection

New in ContaCam 3.5.5 (Oct 11, 2011)

  • To avoid web server problems (especially PHPwith non-ASCII
  • My Documents path changed the default document root location
  • from C:\...\Documents\ContaCam to C:\ContaCam
  • The 'No change' selection in the Assistant Tab is
  • now working as expected when entering a new camera Name
  • FullscreenBrowser available in two versions: a light version
  • with the task disabler code removed to make the anti-virus
  • happy and the original version distributed separately

New in ContaCam 3.5.0 (Oct 11, 2011)

  • Secure email sending through SSL/TLS or STARTTLS
  • Fixed saving of avi and swf files to non-ASCII path
  • Added Dutch web interface language

New in ContaCam 3.3.0 (Sep 3, 2011)

  • Optimized installer size and removed installer CRC check because it can fail on network shares
  • Timer enhancements for the web interface swf player
  • Email header fixes for email sending on movement detection
  • Possibility to manually select the email authentication method
  • The FTP and the email configuration dialogs are now working as expected: after the Test button has been pressed the Cancel button doesn't change the settings

New in ContaCam 3.1.0 (Jul 9, 2011)

  • New compile with MFC security update (MS11-025 and KB2538241)
  • Fixed important bug which prevented the internal web server to
  • start on localizations with a none ASCII application data path
  • (for example: "Data aplikací", many thanks to Majo)
  • Fixed next/prev. buttons of swf player when also avi recs
  • or gifs only shown
  • Updated web interface to Prototype 1.7 / Scriptaculous 1.9.0
  • and moved the javascript library loading to the end
  • Updated internal web server to Apache 2.0.64 and PHP 5.2.17
  • Added Czech and Slovak web interface languages

New in ContaCam 3.0.0 (May 12, 2011)

  • ContaCam is now FREEWARE
  • Web interface got Prev./Next detection video play
  • Web interface video player fast button clicks are now working well also with Internet Explorer
  • Small optimizations for detection saving and networking
  • UDP networking works now in Wine
  • Fixed email send with empty User Name and Password
  • Enhanced translations
  • Added some codecs

New in ContaCam 2.3.9 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • Corrected web interface javascript slider load
  • German translation

New in ContaCam 2.3.5 (Feb 23, 2011)

  • Minor improvements

New in ContaCam 2.3.0 (Jan 18, 2011)

  • Detection SWF saving is 4x times faster
  • Detection Animated GIF saving is 2x faster
  • Detection Theora AVI saving is 2x faster
  • Live recording in Theora AVI is 2x faster (CPU usage while 24h recording is reduced to a half)

New in ContaCam 2.1.0 (Jan 18, 2011)

  • Optional save command button for web interface
  • Remember User Name and Password checked by default in authentication dialog for network devices
  • Added FTP Upload for AVI + SWF + Animated GIF Detections
  • Fixed a possible network dead lock
  • RemoteCam added codec open/close critical sections and implemented drawing update through PostMessage
  • More robust thread start/stop logic

New in ContaCam 2.0.9 (Jan 18, 2011)

  • Web interface improvements
  • Fixed thumbnail creation problem with HD video formats
  • IPv6 support

New in ContaCam 2.0.7 (Aug 14, 2010)

  • Improved motion detection: less sensible to luminosity changes
  • New gif thumbnail message in case of system overload
  • Web interface shows now a small AVI link if both swf and avi files are selected for motion detection saving
  • Program available in three languages: english, russian and italian

New in ContaCam 2.0.5 (May 18, 2010)

  • Added Edimax network cameras support
  • Optional print command link for web interface
  • Motion jpeg decoder more fault tolerant
  • YUV Blt() support check
  • Fixed browser autostart in service mode
  • Fixed start lock for some directx capture cards

New in ContaCam 2.0.1 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Assistant's friendly name change optimized
  • Back button of web interface player uses now a static link and not the javascript history.back() function: this is necessary because some browsers like safari or chrome are badly handling the history for iframes!
  • Fixed dropped frames counter for some type of capture cards
  • Fixed start problem of some capture cards
  • Fixed capture device RGB16(565) format support