hi folks,

For years I have been using many types of PC based capture cards the software is always buggy. my latest 8ch card is a shocker. no other software will work with it. and it locks up or freezes [kvc-v8008A]
might try a faster machine 3ghz + not 1.7ghz -early days still.

At the moment for a single cam I use an avermedia card and Xp using supervisioncam as the motion sensing software for digital stills 320x288 or so [thats run for years no probs] caught heaps of crooks at 3am !

The only problem is it wont go any higher in res -it will do it yes but the picture interlaces /breaks up -I have tried all the software on the market
looks like its a hardware problem. [bt848] it will record DVD size movie ok

I also looked many DVR cards -like the geovision DVR cards but they dont do digital stills [yet] only low res movies -newer ones do DVD size I think

dont want movies -or any type of compression . digital stills are great
at .1 seconds -you can pick out vital detail

there seems to be nothing out there maybe I should design a megpixel cam and my own software ?

just spent the day testing the latest batch of webcam/video motion
software and suprise-suprise all the same cant do bigger than CIF size
and again only some do snapshots @CIF

for xmas>
8ch DVR card that will motion detect and ONLY do snapshots 640x480+

Am I asking too much ?