VideoPhill Recorder is an application used for archiving a video signal. We designed this software to be as simple and inexpensive as possible.

Some situations where you can use VideoPhill are:
1. archiving your broadcasted video
2. compliance recording purposes
3. later detailed analysis
4. media monitoring
5. home/office surveillance

Here are the features that VideoPhill has:
1. recording of a video signal through the use of Osprey video capturing devices
2. simultaneous recording of an audio stream
3. local or remote (LAN) playback of a recorded archive via VideoPhill Playback Appliance
4. creation of a video archive as long as you want depending on the quality required and the disk space available
5. various frame size options and bitrate/quality configurations
6. DIRECT IN-FRAME TIME STAMPING of all video material
7. custom time stamp position inside the frame
8. archive without a single frame loss
9. visual indicator of audio signal
10. e-mail error reporting
11. file export for playback on other computers
12. auto-start capturing
13. logo insertion/descriptive text
14. support for all Osprey cards PCI/PCI-X/PCIe
15. simultaneous pull/push streaming while capturing
16. simultaneous recording from multiple Osprey cards
17. capture NTSC closed captions

Recording of a video/audio signal
VideoPhill produces Windows Media files that contain both a video and an audio stream. The video signal is captured using one of the supported Osprey video capture cards and combined with the audio signal from one of the available audio sources, encoded and finally written to file.

By using audio and video compression, you can store many hours of video, even months, on inexpensive disks of even 320 GB.

Unlimited archive length
The encoded files are split and saved in chunks of half an hour in length. This way you can archive many days of video/audio. The only limit is the size of your storage units (hard disks) and is reversely proportional to the quality of the saved stream. If you want better quality video, fewer days can be stored in the same amount of disk space. Here is a table of archive length vs. video quality vs. hard disk space required. You can use it to estimate your space requirements.

Figures in this table are provisional, and you should use the demo provided here to see what quality of video will satisfy your archive requirements.

Files older then the defined number of days are automatically deleted, so you don't have to worry about filling your disk space beyond your control.

Direct in-frame time stamping
Since time information is of the utmost importance in video archiving solutions, we embed it directly into each frame of the video signal.

In addition to this, you can choose where the time-code will be displayed.

E-mail error notification
In case of error condition like one of the following, e-mail could be sent to several recipients:
1. video signal is lost/restored
2. windows media had an error
3. there is not enough space left on the hard drive
4. video for windows (VFW) error had an error (deprecated)
5. connection with publishing point is lost/resored (push streaming)

Visual indication of audio signal
There is VU meter on the user interface, so user can easily see if there is valid audio signal on input.

Limitations:
* 30 days trial
* Maximum one hour of recording time
* Fixed one file duration of 5 minutes
* Fixed transparency of time label to 50%
* Video has the text "VideoPhill DEMO" in it
* 3 video formats to choose
* 3 audio formats to choose

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is EUR499.00, you can free download and get a free trial.