Newbie question - non-proprietary DVR card

[kim7059 0]

I have looked for a thread of this type but what I found did not answer my question. Apologies if this already exists.

 

I want to buy a DVR card I can put in my (XP) PC, and then record from it using a video editing package.

 

I bought a Swann DVR-4-Net card which works - but only if you use the software provided. You can't export the video recorded for access via other tools such as a video editor (well, you can if you only use one camera, but the sound doesn't get exported). In another thread there was mention of cards locked to the provided software.

 

So I am looking for a recommendation for a DVR card that will allow me to record it's output via any old piece of software. Money, camera count, disk space etc aren't really the issue. Non-proprietary is really the key I guess.

 

Unless someone knows how to access the DVR-4-Net video stream without using the DVR-4-Net provided software?

 

Hope you can help

[Soundy 1]

If you only need to record one video feed at a time for editing purposes, you're probably better off with something intended more for that purpose - any of the Hauppauge WinTV products, ATI's TV Wonder products, ASUS's MyCinema line, etc. Any of those include basic WDM driver support and will work with pretty much any video-editing suite out there, including Windows Movie Maker.