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 4.9.9 (November 3rd 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- Dropped DirectX (IDirectDraw7) drawing support because it is obsolete and poses stability and in some cases even memory leaks problems on Windows 8/8.1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