Some of the best surveillance camera software come bundled with video capture cards. If you are looking for surveillance camera software that can handle both the digital, or IP camera inputs, as well as analog, or CCTV camera inputs, then you want a so called hybrid network video recorder. We found one of the most versatile hybrid network video recorders, NVR, in Avermedia NV5000 model. It includes surveillance camera software, both the IP camera software and analog security camera software with the following features:

Avermedia NV5000 surveillance network video recorder, capture card + surveillance software features

• hybrid type recorder for internet cameras and analog cameras


• output video either MJPEG, H.264 or MPEG4


• ability to encrypt video for even more securely protected viewing


• status notification of any system event requiring attention, such as low disk, high cpu load, high memory


• voice detection and recording


• programmable alarm alerts


• easy replay of footage using bookmarks


• ability to record on multiple disk drives


• can visually enhance raw streams when needed


• monitor capacity, up to 128 channels


• smart phone access


• works on Windows 2k, XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008

Avermedia NV5000 Pros

• we like that the NV5000 can be expanded to 128 channels, using USB hubs, as long as the total fps, frames per second, capacity is not exceeded


• we like the H.264 compression, it is really a space and bandwidth saver


• we like the voice recording option, one can gain so much more info on ambience with voice included


• we like access by smart phones

Avermedia NV5000 Cons

• we really could not find a negative about the NV5000 apart from the fact that it is a powerful card and it will require a powerful PC, with several Gigabyte memory, and Terabyte hard disk space to fully utilize the power of the capture card and the software

Avermedia NV5000 Video Capture Card and Software is for a serious, computer savvy builder, who is eager to design a system to his specs that is powerful, useful, in displaying the video and audio information and in storing the surveillance information. Avermedia NV5000 is not for everyone, but if you feel that it might be for you, take a close look here.