Hi everyone,

First of all I'd like to introduce myself, I’m a student from the “Universidad Católica del Uruguay” (Catholic University from Uruguay) and I’m working in my degree thesis to be Telecommunication Engineer. My thesis consist in capturing analog video from a Digital TV decoder, and detect some errors that occurs random, working with OpenCV for video processing and analysis, and the developing will be over C++.

As a milestone of my thesis I have to select a video capture card in order to capture the analog video and then process it. I’m reviewing the Compro Technology VideoMate E850F Video Capture Card.

I need to know, before buying the card, if it is compatible with Microsoft DirectShow, because I've to access to the card in my C++ code in different situations, for example select the compression way, start/stop MPEG1/2 or 4 compressing, select the norm, etc. It clearly can be done manually by the user interface, but it is not useful for me on this project, I need to access by an API/SDK, and that's why I am asking about the Microsoft DirectShow.

Thanks for the help.