Must an IP camera have a http connect string ?

yes, wdwebcamcapture 10.28 (might not be the latest) seems to be working fine.

One question though: the “log file window” (or whatever you call it on the left side of the image in wdwebcamcapture) shows the text “copying temp file to bla”, “Saving as temp file bla” repeating every second. This seems unnecessary processing and disk activity - is this as expected ?