I am looking for a usb based video capture card (to be used with cctv analog cameras) which comes with an api. An api of sorts would help as I am planning to do some analytics on the video stream.
Any ideas on such a device?
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What platform? Pretty much any capture card would work with DirectShow on Windows. On Linux, the usual API is V4L - the hardware compatibility list isn't as extensive on Linux, but most things do work with it.
Dean Harding
2010-05-19 01:08:05
windows xp/7 (either works). So is directshow usually able to attach to any video stream? or does it have to be a supported device?
michael
2010-05-19 01:22:24
Well, Windows provides a standard interface for the driver developer to program against. As long as they've programmed their driver against the standard interface for capture cards, then it'll "just work". I can't imagine why you'd make a capture card that didn't work with DirectShow - that's how Windows Media Center talks to capture cards, for example.
Dean Harding
2010-05-19 01:40:55