CatSpy is a video surveillance application, which enables you to create a video surveillance based on cameras connected to your computer.

It includes complex motion detection, a pre-motion recording facility and uses all DirectX 9 compatible capture devices.

The detected "motions" are recorded as an AVI file, compressed by any DirectX 9 compatible compressor installed on your machine.

CatSpy is provided for free for personal use

Here are some key features of "CatSpy":

· CatSpy has been designed to meet some general purposes:
· be as fast as possible
· be as lean as possible
· So it uses a standard GUI interface without any customization to spare system resources for the real task: capture video and detect motion in it.
· General
· Multiple settings files with different camera setup, which can be opened simultaneously.
· Multiple cameras per settings file.
· Notification window with all interesting events at one place.
· Adjustable video capture path.
· Auto start detection on settings file open.
· Unattended mode disabling all error dialogs.
· Specify video size, frames per seconds, video mode and tuner related settings for TV cards.
· Motion Detection
· Adjustable grey level.
· Erosion algorithm to remove the noise from the cameras. The algorithm can be processed a number of times.
· Adjustable number of pixels, which must have changed to detect a motion.
· Minimum motion time delay.
· Coded using Intel MMX-assembly instructions to be as fast as possible.
· Time Schedules
· Create individual schedules for each settings file
· Use one schedule in with more than one camera (so define once and reference it in the camera)
· Schedule rules can contain the day of week, the time, the day, the month and the year
· Makes it possible to create rules like: "Let the camera be active Mo-Fr. from 17:00 till 6:00 and Sa/Su the hole day."
· Active Area
· This feature enables you to create individual masks for each camera, excluding unwanted image areas from the motion detection
· Really "paint" the mask with tools like Rectangle, Fill, Circle and Line
· Zoom capabilities in the Mask Editor
· Video Capture
· Supporting all DirectX 9 compatible video devices.
· Respond to special event such as "disk full" during recording.
· Support on-the-fly registration and removal of Plug-and-Play devices.
· Preview window with motion view, frames-per-second-counter and different pixel counter.
· Date/Time-Stamp and camera name recorded to the video.
· Selectable compressor which will be used to compress the videos while capturing.
· Pre-Event-Recording, adjustable time frame.
· Using WMV and AVI file formats for saving the recorded videos