Video capture, proffesional quality

[Crimson Rider]

Guys, I have another nice one here. (hmm this sounds a lot like spam, but bear with me )

There excists a product, a digital VCR that runs on windows. It uses a specialty philips media based pci card to receive up to 32 analog video signals and encode them. Then there is some windows based software that manages those signals in an application. That's the really short version.

Currently I am researching the possibility of migrating that application to linux. The card we are currently using to do the capture has poor linux support (but it has some, just restricted to RedHat 7.1 and kernel 2.2 ) and very limited features.

What I am looking for is a way to have up to 32 cameras encoded/recorded real time. If possible with options such as motion detection.

Does anyone know of a good place to start looking ? Googling gives me a random array of consumer tv-cards and such, not proffesional video capture solutions. It would be mondo cool to move this from windows to linux. We move a few hunred to a thousand systems a year, and placing them with Tux instead of Clippy would mean another area won for Linux.
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