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Subject: Re: Can i use multiple cams to streaming in on machine?
From: Francesco Schiavon <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 01:29:06 -0700

I'm not sure if you're referring to having multiple FireWire cards on one machine or having multiple machines each with a FireWire card daisy chained.

In any case you should be able to do both. I've been able to connect a camera to a PC (encoding Real and WiMP via Cleaner Live) then daisy chained to a G4 using Sorenson Broadcaster. Kind of neat, but you have to plug things in a specific order, otherwise the following device in the FireWire chain does not recognize the previous source. I don't remember the order but it was something like connecting the camera to the G4, switching the camera on, then launching Sorenson Broadcaster, then connecting the G4 to the PC and launching Cleaner Live last. Or something like that, but if you did it in the wrong order, the software would not recognize the FireWire source.

In theory you should be able to daisy chain a number of encoders to a single FireWire source (camera).

At 9:22 +0930 9/1/01, Ryan Verner [xfesty] wrote:

Is something like this possible with firewire capture devices?

- Ryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francesco Schiavon" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: Can i use multiple cams to streaming in on machine?


| On 8/30/01 22:40 Wansley Josi Freire wrote:
|
| >Can i use multiple cams to streaming in on machine?
|
| I think you can do it with Sorenson Broadcaster for Windows if you have
| two licenses, and 4 capture cards (two video and two audio cards).
|
| I would think that you could do the same on the Mac, but I would not dare
| to try it.
|
| It would be safer to have two machines so you can dedicate their CPUs to
| their individual compressions.  Otherwise, dividing the CPU cycles by the
| number of encoders would be too much on the CPUs.
|

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