Cameras and Clips

• The initial view shows live views on the left, and a list of clips on the right.
• Choose from equal video window sizes or one larger than the others
• When you size the main window, the video images size with you.
• Click on a camera view or clip to open it.
• Use your mouse wheel to digitally zoom in and out. 
• A status bar at the bottom lets you know what Blue Iris is doing, and provides help when you pass the cursor over windows and controls.
• PTZ (Pan Tilt and Zoom) controls are supported for some IP cameras
• Organize your clips into folders, and automatically archive them to the web, or put them into storage.

The Clip Viewer

• There are controls for playback and stepping frame by frame. A position slider allows random access to any point in the video.
• Digital Zoom and Pan functionality
• Control the speed of playback (audio as well as video) and the audio volume.
• Use the Blue Iris DVR file format to record to and playback video from the same file simultaneously.
• Mark starting and ending points for playback, trimming, or video export.

Webcam Features

• Built-in multithreaded web server; supports authentication.
• Broadcast MPEG, a JPEG image stream to a Java client applet, or,
• Perform "true" webcasting using leading-edge Windows Media Technologies such as variable and multiple-bitrate encoding (full version).
• View all cameras at once remotely
• PTZ controls accessible remotely in MPEG broadcast window.
• Stream and seek through large clips remotely without downloading the entire file. 
• Detailed stats window
• Use Blue Iris's powerful digital Zoom and Pan functionality remotely!
• The default home page allows you to view all of your cameras and captured clips remotely; this page is easily customized.
• Integrated "mini-browser" to test your home page
• Post images to a remote web server; maintain a ring of images; resize for use on cell phones and PDAs.

Mobile Features

• Android, iPhone, iPad, Smartphone Browser Login

• View Live video feed on your smart phone

Technology Features

• Simultaneously use up to 64 video cameras (with full version).
• Use USB webcams, DV camcorders, network IP cams (see list below), as well as video servers.
• Use generic BT848/878 cards, or we specifically recommend the 4-channel PV149 and 8/16-channel Hikvision DS-40xx cards
• Overlay text, timestamps, and alpha-blended graphics.
• 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.

Video Security Features

• 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
• All passwords are stored encrypted