Avermedia NV5000 120 Frames Per Second Video Capture Card with Surveillance Software

by AVerMedia

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 8.4 x 3 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009HND94
• Item model number: NVDNV5000
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,348 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Video Capture - PCI - NTSC, PAL - Video Capture Card

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great card - way better than the NV3000, July 16, 2011

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Mr. Isotope - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Avermedia NV5000 120 Frames Per Second Video Capture Card with Surveillance Software (Personal Computers)

I bought this card after a terrible experience with the NV3000. I am writing this review to state that, contrary to my review on the NV3000, this card really does what it says. It will produce a true 30fps on each channel at 740X480 resolution with the highest available video quality setting.

The software for the NV5000 is the same as the NV3000, and I like it. After using for a while, I find it to be easy and quite polished.

IF you are thinking about putting together a surveillance system around this card, you should realize that this card is fairly picky about the hardware. For the most part, it is compatible with Intel chipsets only, and only older ones at that. It won't work with my new Sandy Bridge setup. It won't work with anything with a VIA chipset, which means pretty much all of AMD products. There is a document available from Avermedia that details the compatible hardware that has been tested. It is a grab-bag of motherboards and chipsets from a handful of different companies, but the most recent motherboards that they support are those that first came out to support the Pentium D series. Maybe it will work with other motherboards, or maybe not. This is why it doesn't get the whole 5 stars. My plan of running my DVR on older motherboards I had laying around is not panning out because none of them are compatible.

As I also discussed in my NV3000 review, the Avermedia website is horrible. You will never find what you are looking for there. Fortunately, I found another surveillance website that had links to the Avermedia software and docs. If you search around for it, you'll probably find it too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful and does most of what its supposed to, August 30, 2007

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Peter Singh (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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I bought this card to capture feeds from two surveillance cameras. Setup was straightforward even though the software and install is a little dated. The card needs to be installed into the PC and was detected and setup without any issues.

I was surprised by the colors and accuracy of the video footage. In general card seems to do well and the software advanced features like email alerts etc. work well. Only gripe is that despite reducing motion sensitivity to a minimum and blocking out areas of the video that don't need monitoring the frequency of email alerts is significant.

Outside of that very happy with this purchase.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Remote Viewing reference the Avermedia Site, February 24, 2010

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W. Kaye - See all my reviews
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FYI: To configure remote viewing I found the following FAQ at

[...]

"
1. Make sure the DVR system is connected to the network and able to connect to the internet.
2. Go into the NV software.
3. Click on Setup, then Network.
4. Enable the cameras to make them viewable over the internet.
5. Remember the Server IP and remote console Port that is currently being used.
6. Remember the Web Viewer Port. ( Default is 80, but you can change this if your network has any restrictions on ports.)
7. Click Ok, then OK again
8. In order for PCs to access your DVR, the Network option must be enabled. Click on the Network button shown on the window. The button should change color, which will indicate that the option has been turned on."



The card has worked fine for over a year on several evolutions of mother boards and windows op. systems. When you get the instillation CD for the Avermedia DVR software copy the installation code as future software revisions require the original code. The software has been updated twice since I purchase the card...