Blue Iris is a security software program that allows you to keep an eye on your home, place of business, cars, and valuables. Supports motion detection, audio detection, continuous video capture, and allows user to receive alerts via loudspeaker, e-mail, instant messaging, or phone. Use motion or audio sensing to trigger recording, or record continuously or periodically. Overlay the current date/time as well as a logo or other information. Optionally record audio. Use a timer to determine when the system is armed. Images may be captured as either JPEG images, MPEG movies or Windows Media movies (full version). Receive alerts via loudspeaker, email, instant message, voice phone call (with automatic redial), or external program/script. Run Blue Iris as a Windows service so that only you have control over its operation on a shared PC. H.264 video compression. Receive alerts via e-mail, text message, or phone. For use with USB webcams, DV camcorders, network IP cams (Foscam and all major brands), as well as video servers, generic BT848/878 cards, or we specifically recommend the 4-channel PV149 and 8/16-channel Hikvision DS-40xx cards. The highly-efficient Blue Iris DVR file format allows time-slip viewing. DirectX integration provides smooth digital scaling. DirectShow integration provides optimal capture performance. Windows Media technologies integration (full version) allows capture into WMV format and Windows Media webcasting. Multithreaded, optimized and rigorously tested code for optimal performance