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Recording video to a hard drive does not take a lot of beef. In general, here is what takes cpu cycles: Encoding Video (to H.264 or M-Jpeg) Motion Detection In olden days -- before IP cameras, folks would buy expensive encoding cards to offload the encoding from the main computer to the fairly ...

I see no posts on the Plustek encoders (either the 580i or the 540i) since 2013. Is this because everybody gave up? Today I see the 580i on sale for $252 on http://www.consutronix.com/RM6178.html Of course the 540i is at amazon for $218 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V2PUW6O Maybe finding a source for ...