Hi everyone! I'm a neuroscientist trying to set up a small platform to make video recordings of people grasping different objects on a table. To realize this, I want to connect four webcams onto one notebook that records all four streams eg. with MATLAB. Problem: I assume not every notebook with four USB slots is able to handle four video streams at 640x480. Bottlenecks I could imagine are: 1) USB bandwidth How many real USB controllers should the notebook have? Two should be enough, right? 2) CPU Can notebook CPUs handle synchronous encoding of four streams nowadays or do I have to aim for a specific CPU (what about hardware-encoding)? I could also just abandon the idea of compressing the video while recording and do it later. Would that solve the problem? 3) HDD bandwidth As I need lots of memory I cannot afford to use an SSD. Do I have to worry that the HDD is too slow? Are the above mentioned things actually an issue or is the task a piece of cake for an average 800$ notebook? Are there other issues that I should consider? Thx already for your help!! Forodin
Doing something like that, You might want to look at Gaming notebook / laptop...You are going to need allot of Ram/memory and a larger cpu... just my opinion..
