Remote Webcam

The Remote webcam connection mode in Remote Utilities allows you to capture video and sound from a web camera attached to a remote PC, and transmit to a local (Viewer) PC. You can watch a live broadcast from your remote web camera and hear the sound captured by the microphone. You can also save the captured video to a video file for viewing later.

When you initiate a remote webcam connection mode you will see the following window:

The toolbar has controls that offer you several options for this connection mode. For example, you can enable/disable video or sound capturing, or start/stop recording the video onto a file. By clicking on the ‘Stretch’ button, you can stretch the screen or switch back to a non-stretched 1:1 view.

The ‘Remote web camera’ and ‘Microphone’ buttons have dropdown menus where you can select a specific device attached to the remote PC. This comes in handy when there are several multimedia devices. For instance, you can switch between the built-in camera microphone and a stand-alone microphone connected directly to the remote PC.

Remote webcam mode features

• Capture remote video and sound and view a live broadcast;
• Record the video to a file;
• Enable/disable either video or audio capturing;
• Select video quality from very low to very high to accommodate bandwidth;
• Select audio sync frequency (50Hz, 60Hz, or auto).

Benefits

• Turn your remote PC and webcam into a video surveillance system;
• You don’t need a static or even a public IP address. As with other Remote Utilities connection modes, remote webcam mode can work over the Internet using the Internet ID feature;
• You don’t have to set up a Web or FTP server on your remote PC in order to serve the web camera image.