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PCI capture card), and digital Network/IP cameras and video servers. However, not all devices are compatible, due to limitations involving proprietary interfaces. This limitation is most common on network cameras, but applies to some PCI devices as well.
The following is a list of devices that have been tested with i-Catcher, and shows their compatibility. Note that a device being listed here does not guarantee its compatibility with i-Catcher. Any device not listed here is untested, and may or may not be compatible. If you have experience of using i-Catcher with any device not listed here, please contact us with your experience via.
Devices by manufacturer. Pinnacle Capture cards These cards historically use proprietary drivers which either provide no standard interface at all, or only provide access to one input on multi-input cards. Some people have reported that the more recent WDM drivers provide better support for these cards. Pico cards These cards use proprietary drivers that do not provide a standard interface, and as such are not supported by i-Catcher. GrandTec PCI Capture cards These cards use proprietary driver interfaces to use multiple inputs, and only provide a standard interface to use one input at a time. Euresys PCI/PCI-Express (PCIe) Capture Cards Euresys capture cards provide a standard interface to access multiple inputs simultaneously by default. I-Catcher's compatibility extends to providing a direct interface to the card driver, allowing each input to be used as a single capture source.
A full list of supported Euresys cards is. ViewCast Osprey PCI Cards The Osprey range of cards use standard WDM drivers, but typically for only one input at a time. I-Catcher Video Server will allow multiple inputs by use of input switching, at the cost of heavily reduced framerate. Hauppauge WinTV Devices The Hauppauge range of PCI cards have historically been completely compatible with i-Catcher with the limitation that only one input may be used at a time.
More recent revisions of the Hauppauge drivers seem to have broken compliance with the WDM standard and now only operate with the supplied Hauppauge software. Our enquiries to Hauppauge on this matter have been ignored by Hauppauge. The same is true for USB devices, as Hauppauge now uses a 'unified' driver for both PCI and USB devices.
'eBay' DVR Cards There are a number of cards being sold on the online auction site eBay that are advertised as 'DVR' cards, often promoting connection of up to 4 cameras at once. Unfortunately, this description is a little misleading. The cards are nearly always BT878-based cards (the same chip used in the WinTV series, the Osprey cards, the Euresys cards, and 90% of all other PCI video capture cards). The software supplied with them that allows multiple camera connections is the Pico 2000 software and driver, which is not a WDM standard compliant driver and will not operate with i-Catcher. It is possible to install a generic driver for these cards, however it will typically only allow one input to be used at a time. IP/Network Cameras & Video Servers. The following cameras/video server devices are listed by manufacturer, along with any notes on compatibility and setup with i-Catcher.
Key The device supports video output in this format, or PTZ control for this device is supported. The device does not support video output in this format, or PTZ control for this devices is unsupported. Support for this video format or PTZ control of this device is unknown or undetermined. This feature does not apply to this device. Still JPEG: Images are captured by repeatedly requesting a single JPEG image file from the network device. This is slower than MotionJPEG, as there is the additional overhead of repeatedly connecting and disconnecting, and the camera processing the request. MotionJPEG: Images are captured by making a single connection to the network device, and requesting a MotionJPEG stream.
The device then continuously sends video frames as JPEG images on the same connection. This is the preferred method for i-Catcher network video capture.