I am looking for a usb based video capture card (to be used with cctv analog cameras) which comes with an api. An api of sorts would help as I am planning to do some analytics on the video stream.
Any ideas on such a device?
What platform? Pretty much any capture card would work with DirectShow on Windows. On Linux, the usual API is V4L - the hardware compatibility list isn't as extensive on Linux, but most things do work with it.