IP Camera Recorder is a compact and practical piece of software that was developed to provide you with the ability of watching as well as saving the video stream captured by IP cams, to AVI format.

In what concerns its looks, the application features a basic appearance, with no superfluous buttons or functions, structuring its interface into two tabs.

As such, in the ‘Video’ section of IP Camera Recorder, you can view the live stream from the source cam, while from the ‘Help’ tab, you can learn more about how to work with it properly.

The lack of excessive adornments may appeal to experienced individuals, but novices may have a hard time figuring out how to successfully use IP Camera Recorder. For instance, the cam’s IP address and its MJPEG path can be changed only by editing the BAT file in the installation folder of the utility, after some extensive analysis of the documentation material of your device.

In order to store the captured video to your computer, there is no visible button or option, but you can learn how to do this from the ‘Help’ tab. As such, all you need to do is to press the CTRL+S keys, and IP Camera Recorder will prompt you to save the AVI file under a preferred name and in a custom destination folder.

When you wish to end the recording process, you can click on the ‘ESC’ button on your keyboard and the movie will automatically be saved to the previously defined location. However, bear in mind that the tool does not offer advanced functions, such as task scheduling, nor any additional customizable features.

In short, IP Camera Recorder is a handy albeit quite limited program that can help you capture AVI movies using a public or private IP cam, so you can perform surveillance operations, for instance, and be able to review the images whenever you need.