User Interface
  - 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.
  - 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.

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

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.

System Requirements:
  - Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 2GHz processor or better
  - 1GB or more system RAM
  - Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, or Windows 7
  - Microsoft DirectX version 8.0 or better
  - One or more USB, DV (Firewire), or Network IP cameras, or an analog capture card.
  - 4 MB or better graphics adaptor with DirectX support drivers.

Purchase a license
The LE version of Blue Iris supports a single camera only; the full version supports multiple cameras, and includes support for Windows Media technologies.