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Most proprietary systems work much like the structure being described, but the advertised camera limit is usually much higher than 16-20 per server. I was more worried about how the unifying server would handle all the incoming data and whether or not it could reconstruct the frames into exportable ...

Has anyone used zoneminder for a large number of cameras (100+) My research on zoneminder indicates that due to the way the system detects motion (analizing each frame for changes) that it becomes very CPU intensive to record anymore than 16 cameras at a time depending on how many FPS each camera is ...