Euresys

The H.264 encoding has tremendous advantages that make it the best suited compression standard for security applications. It offers high image quality on top of low bit rate and low storage requirement.
The Picolo V16 H.264 from Euresys is an outstanding video capture board with audio capability featuring H.264 on-board compression for 16 video inputs.
Each video input delivers simultaneously a raw and compressed video stream. The compressed images can be stored on the hard disc or transferred by the network while the uncompressed images can be immediately displayed or can be used for video analytics. Both streams are independently configurable: frame rate control, resolution control, can be set autonomously while overlay and masking features are available on both streams.
The Picolo V16 H.264 is a PCI Express 1-lane board and implements, for system integration, 32 general-purpose I/O lines and a pass-through buffered video output with cascade capability.
To operate the Picolo V16 H.264, DirectShow filters interfaces for Windows are provided.