Version history for ContaCam
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Changes for v9.9.7 - v9.9.8
- - Web interface has got bigger buttons
- - New statusbar pane which shows slowest saving speed
- - Dropping frames when the available commit size gets low
- - Fixed statusbar for high dpi devices
Changes for v9.9.5 - v9.9.7
- - Supporting high DPI aware NSIS 3 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
- - In case that the camera framerate cannot be reduced there is a saving framerate divider parameter in Camera Advanced Settings dialog
- (removed the saving speed adaptation logic introduced in 9.9.5)
- - Better support for Samsung cameras
- - Web interface got a Back to Top button
- - Removed Camera Basic Settings toolbar button as this command is
- already under the Settings menu
Changes for v9.9.3 - v9.9.5
- - Video saving speed adapts itself to the available system resources
- - Optimized small video (animated gif) creation and play time
- - Bottom toolbar menus must not cover their own buttons
Changes for v9.9.1 - v9.9.3
- - New CAMERA.bat batch file to control the camera source on/off state
- - Daily summary video will not record black frames when source is off
- - Added a recording start picture saving checkbox
- - Http multipart parser is more fault tolerant
- (fixes VLC multipart streaming)
- - New %name% command execution variable containing the camera name
- - Support Floureon, JideTech and Wyze RTSP cameras
Changes for v9.9.0 - v9.9.1
- - Fixed a bug which prevented the Camera Basic Setting dialog
- to set the correct sensitivity for the chosen usage
Changes for v9.7.0 - v9.9.0
- - Better support for high contrast themes
- - Frame Annotation possibility with the new toolbar button
- - More intuitive detection zones/mask toolbar button. Single zones
- changes are now saved immediately
- - Configurable frame interval for the daily summary video
- - Removed the rudimentary scheduler in favour of a more flexible way
- to control ContaCam through the Windows Task Scheduler
- - Added example buttons for typical external commands
- - Web interface multiple selection deletion
- (sponsored by Grün Stadt Zürich)
- - The web interface video player was enhanced with a 2.0x play speed
- - In web interface we have now only one camera source obscure button
- (like in ContaCam program)
- - Updated installer with an improved closing logic for Apache server
- - Added a new Generic IP camera entry
- - Fixed mjpeg support for the MotionEyeOS camera (thanks to
- Dave Smith for reporting the problem and helping find the bug)
Changes for v9.5.0 - v9.7.0
- - In web interface showing start time if hovering over small videos
- - Reload web page with no parameters if today selected
- - Small fixes
Changes for v9.0.9 - v9.5.0
- - The daily summary video creation is now configurable under Camera Basic Settings
- - Fixed download problems for daily summary videos
- - Increased the download performance of thumbnails and videos
- - Updated the "Network / IP Camera" dialog to show also the assigned
- camera name in the "Camera IP or Address" drop down list
- - Support Sumpple RTSP cameras
Changes for v9.0.7 - v9.0.9
- - The web interface full screen live snapshot image can now be
- configured to either maintain the aspect ratio or to fully stretch
- - Do not adapt the frame time font size when the DPI changes, this
- because connecting through RDP can modify the DPI automatically
- - Possibility to display the system uptime in each frame
- - Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.38 and PHP 5.6.40
- with INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE patch discussed in PHP bug #77580
- (Apache and PHP both with OpenSSL 1.0.2q)
Changes for v9.0.5 - v9.0.7
- - The web interface full screen image maintains the aspect ratio (not supported by IE)
- - Store the temporary daily summary snapshots in a subfolder
- - Removed the possibility to have "snapshot each" under 1 second
Changes for v9.0.3 - v9.0.5
- - Support additional Generic RTSP devices
- - Increased the rtsp/udp receiving buffer size from 1 MB to 10 MB
- - Building the application with LARGEADDRESSAWARE set to have up to
- the double of address space
- - Added support for flipping video horizontally and vertically
- (rotating by 180° can be achieved by enabling both flips)
- - Scheduler is now only for the recordings and not for the
- snapshots (scheduling for the snapshots can be achieved with
- a batch script executed on snapshot)
- - Do not revert snapshot thumb size and rate in Camera Basic
- Settings dialog
Changes for v7.7.0 - v9.0.0
- - ContaCam is now DONATIONWARE
- - Privacy mask option: removed detection zones can be obscured
- - Document tabs have got a close button
- - Simpler Camera Advanced Settings dialog
- - Dropped .avi video file support, always saving in .mp4
- - Manual / continuous recording is now performed by the motion
- engine (it makes no sense to have a separate continuous
- recording engine)
- - Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.34 and PHP 5.6.37
- (both with OpenSSL 1.0.2o)
- - Using better random generators
- - Removed direct FTP support, command execution has been enhanced
- and examples are provided so that it's possible to upload with
- any command line tool
- - To enforce security removed the possibility to delete recordings
- from the web interface
- - Removed the possibility to hide the toolbars because they
- provide important commands not available elsewhere
- - Removed the possibility to hide the statusbar because it
- notifies about important issues like buffer shortage
Changes for v7.0.0 - v7.5.0
- - For network devices when starting try to connect infinitely
- (dropped the "Autostart a network camera each" option as it
- is not necessary with the new connect infinitely feature)
- - Tabbed document interface (TDI)
- - Show a warning if sleep/standby/hibernation enabled
- - Use the Ctrl key to switch between Add and Remove Detection Zones
- - Fixed recent changes/problems of window.innerWidth/Height
- (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=571297)
- - In web interface dropped swf (flash player) backwards compatibility
- - Dropped Windows XP and Windows 2003 support (ReactOS support has
- also been dropped because it only implements the Windows 2003 API)
Changes for v5.5.0 - v7.0.0
- - Native RTSP cameras support (dropped VLC re-streaming of RTSP cameras)
- - Updated internal web server to Apache 2.4.25 and PHP 5.4.45 (both with OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips)
- - Possibility to obscure the video source from the web interface
- - All cameras can now capture audio from a selectable source (removed Axis HTTP audio support, please use RTSP)
- - New status-bar pane showing the maximum overall movement detection buffers size
Changes for v5.3.0 - v5.5.0
- - If a DirectShow device path is not defined use the device name as device path (thanks to Shaun Daigle for reporting the problem)
- - Support nonce reuse (-> faster polling for digest protected cams)
- - poll.php and push.php if called directly use http basic auth
- - Updated lftp.exe to version 4.6.6
- - Fixed memory leak of CRT threads under Windows XP
Changes for v5.1.0 - v5.3.0
- - Password protect all cameras with form based authentication
- (this authentication type works well on all browsers)
- - Attach a snapshot to the daily email notification
- - Using the AVIR image resizing algorithm designed by Aleksey Vaneev
Changes for v5.0.9 - v5.1.0
- - Made the application High DPI Aware (displays well on 4K monitors)
- - Generates smaller mp4 files with the same quality
- - Added the possibility to send a daily email notification to make
- sure the device works properly
- - Increased the mailer timeout from 5 to 15 seconds (thanks to Joe
- Hannigan for reporting a problem with some slow smtp servers)
- - Fixed email sending on Windows XP (thanks David Greig)
- - Encrypted settings (like passwords) are now exportable and work
- well if used on another computer or by another logon user
- - Compiling with Visual Studio 2015 (ContaCam runs on
- Windows XP SP3 / Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher)
Changes for v5.0.7 - v5.0.9
- - All detection frames are buffered to memory (or page file)
- - Full stretch the videos in web interface
- - Corrected FTP to first upload the full video/jpeg version and then
- the corresponding thumb. That's necessary because in web interface
- the thumbs point through a link to the full versions
- - Emailing files as plain attachments and not embedded in html as
- before because some email clients are not display embedded images
- properly
- - Do not fail when no DV media present
Changes for v5.0.5 - v5.0.7
- - Email alert when device unplugged or not reachable
- - Faster and more reliable FTP upload support
- - Web interface video play rate buttons: 0.25x and 1.0x
- - Web interface has now an optional trash / delete button
- - Bigger toolbar buttons
- - Added support for some Samsung cameras
- - Email settings auto-fill for most common smtp servers
- - Re-added the option to email a jpeg snapshot on motion detection
- (with respect to previous implementation it is sent really fast)
- - Removed the standby and hibernate disabling feature introduced with
- version 5.0.1 because it also blocked entering these states manually
Changes for v5.0.1 - v5.0.5
- - Added Dahua and Hikvision support
- - Made the web interface more mobile friendly
- - Malformed jpeg frames reaching ContaCam are now not stopping it from
- running (thanks to Mark P for reporting the problem and helping find
- the bug)
- - Added crash dump support and verbose diagnostic logging
- - If no attachment is selected the motion detection email is sent really
- fast (before it was only sent when the detection storing was done)
- - Configurable minimum time between motion detection email messages
- - Removed the possibility to email jpeg snapshots on motion detection as
- it rarely catches what's moving. The Small Video (animated gif) is by
- far better suited as it really shows the movement (if its size is too
- small then adjust that under Save Small Video - Thumbnail Size)
- 5.0.3 (November 18th 2015)
- - Hard-disk info display
- - Show/hide commands for Statusbar and Toolbars
- - Fixed crash opening "ManyCam Virtual Webcam"
- - Removed audio file playing support as there are better programs that
- can reproduce many more file types
- - Fixed hearable ticks while saving Axis ip camera audio
Changes for v5.0.0 - v5.0.1
- - Web interface has a new html5 calendar picker (browser must support it)
- - Enhanced ContaCam service installation
- - Audio support for Axis ip cameras (thanks to Michi for sponsoring the
- development)
- - Disallow standby and hibernate when there are cameras running
- - To clean-up after a possible crash ContaCam deletes now its temporary
- folder content on startup
- - Web interface avoids switching IE to compatibility mode when opened
- with the computer's NetBIOS name
- - Full Vietnamese language support
Changes for v4.9.9 - v5.0.0
- - Goodbye Flash Video: .swf files have been replaced by .mp4 files
- which all modern browsers and smartphones can play
- - Goodbye Html Frames: web interface improved for mobile devices
- - Detection frames are now buffered also to HD and not only in RAM
- (this avoids splitting a detection sequence into many files)
- - Configurable minimum disk free space (works now also for network
- shares and symlinks)
- - In audio input dialog the correct entry is selected for devices
- having the same name
- - Installer adds now the Start Menu entry only for the Current User
- - Removed Fullscreen Browser as it cannot display HTML5 videos
- - To avoid troubles in service mode from now on it's not possible
- to associate files to ContaCam (please use FreeVimager for that)
- - Because of web server miss-configuration danger the possibility to
- move the individual camera folders in Camera Basic Settings dialog
- has been removed (advanced users can create junctions, symlinks or
- run a .bat script on detection to move/copy the video files to
- another location)
Changes for v4.9.7 - v4.9.9
- - 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
Changes for v4.9.0 - v4.9.5
- - Support Foscam, Tenvis and Clones mjpeg cameras in network dialog
- - Credentials are now typed into the 'Connect To' network dialog
- making it possible to edit them later on
- - Avoid leading and trailing whitespaces in directx device names
- - Fixed 'Out of memory' error message when joining a huge amount
- of avi files (more than 100)
- - Verify HTTP/1.1 keep-alive support because some ip cams do not
- follow the specifications
- - Possibility to configure an autostart delay between network
- devices. Useful for wireless networks which tend to congest
- if all IP cams start at the same time (thanks to Sanford Gossman
- for the idea and for testing it)
- - Increased network timeouts
- - Made mjpeg video decoder more fault tolerant
- - Fixed service installation failure when using a Windows 8
- Microsoft Account (thanks to Paolo Seveso for reporting that)
Changes for v4.7.0 - v4.9.0
- - Added Internet Explorer 11 support
- - Added support for ACTi and some newer Intellinet ip cams
- - Global toolbar buttons for Browse and Browse Files commands
- - Motion scheduler has got a 'detection disabled from..to and on'
- - The minimum font size for frame time, for detection indicator
- and for detection save/email/ftp progress is now configurable
- - Better support of OmniVision webcams
- - Fixed memory leak for cameras producing sort of unusual MJPG
- frames (thanks to Mitko for sending me the Neo NC-78 webcam)
- - Possibility to store temp files under the cameras root folder
- - Command is now executed when detection is confirmed by filter
- and not on first movement frame
- - First version especially optimized for Windows XP and higher
- - Dropped support for theora encoding because many modern
- players are not able to play avi files encoded in such a way
Changes for v4.5.0 - v4.7.0
- - Fixed the lost motion detection configuration zones bug seen when applying the Assistant Settings or when opening and closing ContaCam quickly
Changes for v4.1.0 - v4.5.0
- - Possibility for millisecond snapshot rates
- - Delete old files if the free disk space gets lower than:
- MIN(10% of HD space, 10 GB)
- - Added support for Foscam FI9821W, FI9801W and FI9802W
- (update Foscam firmware to the latest version!)
- - Removed Capture - Avi Play command because vlc can be used to
- stream a avi file to multipart/x-mixed-replace mjpeg
- 4.3.0 (February 12th 2013)
- - Split the 'Other HTTP Device' mode in Server Push and Client Poll
- - Swf snapshot history file is now correctly created even if
- restarting ContaCam (snapshots preceding restart are not lost)
- - In Device Assistant added a button to move the camera folder;
- under Tools menu there is the possibility to move all camera
- folders in one command
- - Live snapshot names can now be configured
- - Increased support from 15 to 100 DirectX devices
- - In log messages the user assigned device name is now shown
- - For microapache set MaxKeepAliveRequests to 0 (=No Limit) to
- avoid frame jumps which were happening when the keep alive
- request count reached 0 and a reconnection was necessary
- - Longer detection files option introduced in version 4.0.5
- is now always on
- - Removed UDP networking because it was ContaCam's proprietary
- streaming protocol not compatible with any current standard
- (it's still possible to stream a video source through the web
- server, a FAQ entry has been added illustrating that)
- - Removed manual record pause command which was of no use
