Welcome to CCTVSoftware.org! In this site you will find a selection of top CCTV software companies and top softwares to make the most of your CCTV camera systems. Whether you are looking for a CCTV camera software that will provide a better set of features that your camera came with originally, or you are looking to combine an old combination of CCTV hardware with a new computer system, you have come to the right place.

As the CCTV industry, home surveillance, and business surveillance industry is growing rapidly over the past decade and more, the growth is not only in the number of units delivered but also from the old, analog systems, to new, digital systems. And since the installations of CCTV cameras in buildings, offices, and homes can be quite demanding, it is often desirable to retain the existing system of cameras in place, and build on it by adding a newer system, or maybe just upgrading to the best CCTV security software.

Thus, the CCTV software companies are faced with a complex situation of supporting larger and larger systems that can be of a mixed analog-digital variety.

When you are in the market for video surveillance software, what should you look for? Well, before you go and browse our site, it will be valuable to you to answer a couple of questions on your own. These questions will enable you to better set the criteria based on which you will determine what CCTV camera software will best suit your needs. Here are some of the questions you want to ask yourself now:

Do your existing CCTV cameras come with their own software?

Most CCTV cameras do. However, there are dozens of CCTV camera manufacturers out there and not all of them produce high quality software that they ship with their cameras or DVR systems. So ask yourself further, are there any features missing that you would really want? For instance, can your CCTV DVR software cleanly display the image from the camera under all relevant conditions? Night time, day time, strong sunlight, even rain or snow? Does the software included have the capacity to manipulate the image sufficiently to get a good representation under such conditions? Does your software have sufficient camera manipulation capacity? For instance, when you have a pan-tilt-zoom camera, do you need automatic tracking of the motion, and does your software provide it? Finally, does your existing CCTV recording software allow you to manage the disk space on your DVR or PC sufficiently to your needs, and does it allow streaming of the images and even control of the cameras over the internet?

When you have asked these questions, and got some less-than-satisfactory answers, then you know that you want to be looking for another piece of CCTV video surveillance software.

What additional features of the CCTV software do you really need?

Again, how important is image control, camera motion control, timelapse recording, disk storage control and backup, and remote viewing over the internet? Do you have any other requirement such as filtering out the parts of the image that is of no consequence to your business security? Can you properly adjust the level of motion prior to triggering the recording or even an alarm? Considering the space available on your hard disk(s), do you have sufficient compression that allows you to store as much data as you need?

Does the CCTV software you are looking into work with the brand and model of the cameras you have?

With many dozens of manufacturers, this is not a given. If you are starting with the analog signal cameras, you will need to add a frame grabber with analog inputs and USB2.0 output. Then you will want to make sure your CCTV software is compatible with the output of the frame grabber. Usually the digital cameras output their streams in MJPEG, MPEG4, or H.264, but you want to make sure of that.

You want to make sure that the frame rate from all the cameras you are controlling is manageable by the software, i.e., you want to make sure that you are not losing any frames while recording them on disk, and when displaying them locally, or streaming them over the internet.

Now that you have answered these questions, you should be much better prepared to select the exact vendor and type of your CCTV software. Enjoy the rest of the site!