ContaCam is free Video Surveillance and Live Webcam software for Windows is extremely easy on system resources, and does not contain unnecessary bloat. It is fast, light, and versatile enough to meet all your security needs while still being very user friendly and able to run on even the most moderate systems.

1. An easy three steps Assistant is provided:
- Decide for the usage (security surveillance, live snapshot webcam or manual records / snapshots)
- Enter a friendly camera name, choose the web appearance & language
(English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Slovak, Czech, Dutch, Bulgarian)
- Configure how long to keep the files on your hard disk
2. Take a look at the Assistant screenshot. For the experts there are dozens of additional configuration options, check the Settings screenshots.

Features
- Support for all Windows versions from Windows 95 up to Windows 8
- The program is freeware and available in four languages: English, German, Italian and Russian
- CCTV Security Surveillance with motion detection and 24 hours digital video recording (DVR)
- Motion detection events presented as animated thumbnails in web browser, check the street demo and the home demo
- Motion detection actions like FTP upload, send email (SSL/TLS or STARTTLS support) with attached movement file or run an external program
- Live webcam with possibility of history tracking, see this live demo and select a past day
- Manual records and snapshots (video game captures, movie recording, ...)
- Integrated web server with password protection (internet or intranet)
- Supports Webcams, WDM and DV devices and Network cameras (IP cameras)
- Unlimited parallel cameras setup
- Can be started as a windows service
- Audio storing for 24 hours recording and on detection (no audio support for IP cameras)
- Has all the FreeVimager features for snapshots editing and avi files recompression

ChangeLog 4.9.7 (August 25th 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