[streaming] Re: questions

[Tristan Leteurtre]

On Wed, May 28, 2003, Eric Petit wrote:
> > I have 4 Tv card (bktv878)! can i streaming for 4 tv card at once ?
> > I have problem - plunder from 4 video cameras and to issue in a
> > web... I.e. it is necessary simultaneously to look 4 cameras hooked
> > up to TV tuner in video-in
>  You will have to launch several VLC (or VLS) instances, reading from
> /dev/video0, /dev/video1, etc.

Mmmm, keep in mind that software encoding takes quite a lot of CPU. So
unless you have a good CPU (2-3Ghz ?) and you want poor video quality,
I expect 4 tv cards to be too many for simultaneous encoding. You will
probably need to split all that in 2 computers.

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Tristan
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