xPL & video capturing

[Tom Van den Panhuyzen <tomvdp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi people,

Today I was victim of vandalism around the house (I live in a rather
remote but easily accessible area.  Some young trees were destroyed).
Makes my blood boil...  Long time ago I already had the idea to
capture video from a camera hanging near to the edge of the roof.  The
camera was installed, I have a capture card but never really got it
all configured correctly or running like I would like.  The camera is
old (and NTSC...), the capture card a Hauppage WinTV so also not
really made for that.

What I would like to have is a system that can be controlled via xPL
to start capturing video.  The motion detectors outside the house send
out xPL packets already.

I really need some advice to achieve this.  There probably exist
packages on the market that do this, but are these xPL-able, generate
standard viewable video, able to run as a service, ... ?  My
preference would go to some freeware c# component that I can play with
and add an xPL front for. :-)

Thanks
Tom