> This is slightly off topic and should maybe > be private and I may have missed some pertinent > post but why are you doing this? > > Those specs are sort of massively {insanely} > impressive and all but what's the point of so > many streams and so much hardware if you're not > running a full {fairly large} studio from one > computer? > > I guess what I'm asking is "why"? Are you > actually trying to edit 6 streams at once? > Maybe streaming them back out? Do you just > have a lot of stuff to capture? > I agree about the 'offtopicness' of this subject, and also proposed starting an private thread already. But let me answer your question : I'm building a low-cost security-camera system that records 6 streams at low fps (+- 4 fps per camera) permanently, and can be triggered to write recordings from -5 before to +5 minutes after the trigger to mpg files for later retrieval. /Ico