Please Help A Newbie

[DodgeViper]

Last week I had posted I needed a capture card to capture analog video from a surveillance camera to be display on my desktop. I am going to use a program called Desktop Spy to capture the image in JPEG every second.

Now from what I have read a TV card with composite video is all I need. I was looking at the Hauppauge's WinTV card to purchase. What I need to know is the image I capture going to be a small area on my desktop or can the image be expand without being pixilated? I read that most of these cards are only capturing 720x480. For viewing I am using a 19” monitor and need a clear sharp picture. I do understand that I need a great incoming image, but my concerns are the size of image I capture.

[Sulik]

An alternative would be to the the built-in motion detection feature of the All-In-Wonder: it has a feature that can capture only when there is motion on the camera.

[Richard_G]

As 720 x 480 is NTSC DVD format, you aren't going to get anything better. Try playing a DVD disk in you computer (assuming you have a DVD drive) and display it full screen. That's the sort of quality you could get, but you won't because it is way beyond what the surveillance camera is going to be capable of producing.