Re: IP Camera server

[Paul Robert Marino]

Also an alternative if you can do home runs to video consolidation devices which are commonly used in the broadcast industry and cameras that output SDI (digital video streams) you can send it to sling appliances which can handle 8 HD feeds per box. All of this is using retail (to the broadcast industry) equipment which each one has a steep sticker price but will probably cost you less than the equipment required for dealing with 30 MPEG streams on a server. The best part is the sling boxes are linux DVR appliances with a web interface that can play live and or historical feeds to multiple users at once via a web interface and in some variants to a TV/DVD recorder.

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On Sep 15, 2014 7:17 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmari...@gmail.com> wrote:

Look at the ones that specialize as a DVR there are a few of them but off the top of my head I can't remember the name of the software involved. But there are a few distros that specialize in this. A warning though with that many feed you will probably need a hefty RAID which may need an external disk enclosure at the least just to get the bandwidth from striping across a sufficient number of spindals and SSD's won't help.

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On Sep 15, 2014 7:07 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I have a customer whose with a long term project which
includes about 30 IP cameras. He wants to both view and
record. Anyone know or have a favorite Linux server
for such?

Many thanks,
-T

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