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barney:
I have tried them all.  The best is Security Monitor Pro.  It is reasonably priced and has the best interface and usability of any of the mid level security software - http://www.deskshare.com/video-surveillance-software.aspx
-adam718 (January 14, 2013, 10:37 AM)
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I'll take a look, but ~$90 (US) is a bit steep for my purposes.

barney:
Haven't tried Security Monitor Pro just yet.  Been working with IP Camera Viewer.  Of the three (3) cams, two (2) of 'em set up just fine, as long as they were cabled.  Third cam did not, apparently (no mfg or model).  But when I tried its IP in a browser (Firefox) it works just fine.  However, that, too, is cabled.  So now the project becomes dependent upon finding guidelines for wi-fi setup.  Well, the IP Camera Viewer process, anyway.  Still others to try.

Just a point of information regarding Win8.  I installed Win8 Pro Upgrade on one of the laptops yesterday - about six (6) hours, but a significant part of that time was uninstalling a few files that were incompatible with Win8.  And a significant part of that time was finding a way to remove DisplayLink drivers - a real PITA.  Anyway, the point is that Win8 Pro is fully installed, works just fine.

But.

When I try to activate the cabled cam in IE10, it wants an OCX file.  Win8 won't let it load - it just cycles back and forth between notification that the installation is blocked and a UAC  permission block.  It's locked into an endless loop - well, at least seventeen (17) cycles that I counted  :-[.  However the cam loads fine in Firefox on Win8.

Oh, it just doesn't load in IE9 on Win7 Ultimate, offers no option whatsoever.  W/O knowing the OCX name ahead of time, there's no simple way to counter this.  Had to kill IE9 with Task Manager, but can't find it yet in Win8.

Every other browser I've tried, on both OSes has worked just fine for the wired cam.

Well, that's progress as of 2013.01.19.

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helmut85:
I recently had a good web look into such sw, and I'm afraid most prof. offerings were on "quote" only, i.e. you can be happy if they are not more than 500 bucks. So 90 bucks IF that sw works well, seems very reasonable.

This vid is good, just scroll down a little bit beneath the article before (which says a 67-year-old woman stole meat for 2,000 bucks (which she didn't eat but stored in her fridge), hundreds of hair coloring kits, 400 silk stockings, and much more): It shows a burglar who forgot his mask so put on a waste basket as his makeshift hat:

http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article112951135/Steak-Oma-stiehlt-Fleisch-im-Wert-von-1500-Euro.html

michaelclyde:
i don't know if your still looking but...
i've been using securecam2 for over a year. it has a built in webserver for your ip cams, it works with usb cams , with cctv cams (that have a single conductor and a shield/ground whether it's rca or a cable type fitting.
i routinely take 15,000 .jpeg pics @ 95% quality and only use 600MB's (Bytes)
you can only use 4 cams at once unless you make a donation, then you get 100 cam usage.
the best part is it's  F R E E ,  F R E E ,  F R E E. v3 is due soon and i expect it to support better compression. i use it on se7en x64 and 1 cam uses 0-1% cpu (back and forth) on an amd x3 athlon ll rana 435 at idle, with 4 cams detecting motion simultaneously i might hit 18%. 1 cam uses about 11k worth of ddr2 800 ram.
Here are some key features of "SecureCam2":

· Full Security Camera Recording Package.
· Supports IP Cameras or DirectX Cameras.
· Motion Detection Recording Ability with Region Highlighting.
· Schedule Recording Ability.
· Text Overlay Ability.
· Record output as Mjpg video or as individual JPG frames.
· Integrated Webserver with Password Security.
· Mjpeg Video Player with built in Video Editing Capabilities.
· Android and IPhone webserver view compatibility.
· Ability to encode Mjpg videos to any AVI format (divx, ect) (appropriate codec must be installed).

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sorry, didn't mean to dribble on,
michael clyde
BTW-
if you can't find it let me know  and i'll attach it here... it's small 341KB
 IT'S ATTACHED NOW   thanks to 12oClocker Software

x16wda:
Wow, thanks michaelclyde!  Sounds great, and if I can get some time I'll beat it up with a few cameras.

The link to 12oclocker's programs page is here.

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