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So what abot H.264 (in comparison to mpeg4) would that be more expensive for the CPU? Or does that not really make a difference?

@Flasheart I understand, the framerate will be trouble for motion detection. The problem is I want to play the video itself smoothly afterwards. Could it be possible to record the video with a high framerate, but let ZoneMinder only compare frames (detect motion) with 5fps. So something like ...

Hey I'm planning to install a system with up to 10 network cameras in 1024x768 resolution with somewhere around 24fps. Which hardware-specs am I looking at if I want to use motion-detection with zones? Does ZoneMinder use the graphics card, or do I just need a good CPU? Would it help to use a quad ...

I want to achieve the following setup and am wondering if that would be possible using the latest ZoneMinder version: 5-10 network cameras, one server. The server should be 'watching' those cameras live and generating one 'out'-videoclip. This videoclip should contain only one camera at the same ...