A few years back we designed some hardware specifically to address this issue.
It's a black box which accepts video from the source of your choice (usually a camera), overlays data on the video frame, ala closed captioning, and outputs video to a VCR, DVD recorder or computer with a video capture card.
It's receives data from within a MediaLab experiment and displays that data on the screen.
For more details, see http://www.empirisoft.com/custom/02.aspx (note we do not generally do custom hardware anymore but depending on the job requirements we remain open-minded!
Also, note that the current version of the system uses a standard serial port, rather than the older parallel port.
John




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