Hi,

I'm a new user and I have a slightly different issue to most in that I want to record simultaneously from 6 cameras but I do NOT need to reconstruct motion: we're doing an experiment with ants going along a 9 m long channel, so I'll have a separate camera for each 1.5 m.

I can see we only need the iPi recorder (which is fantastic) but we're going to buy a PC (or laptop) and I wondered if there were any requirements that we would need.

I can see we should be fine with 6 USB ports but I've also seen posts on the graphics cards needed (for GPU acceleration) but not sure if we need this for just the recording?Or is there a different card we should get to make sure the PC is able to capture video from all 6 cameras?

many thanks and apologies if this question has already been answered (I've had a look but I may not have searched for the correct things).

Best

Andy

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Dr Andrew Philippides
University of Sussex
UK

You do not need GPU for recording. Please find detailed system requirements at the bottom of this page (you need only Recording section):
http://ipisoft.com/software/standard-edition/

Please be careful with USB. You need 3 USB controllers inside. 6 ports may sit on only 2 controllers. Please find how to check this in this article:
http://wiki.ipisoft.com/USB_controllers

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iPi Soft

Thanks very much for your response: that's really useful. We've identified a pc to get: the Dell OptiPlex 9020 Small Form Factor which has more than 6 USBs and has both USB 2 and USB 3. Their spec sheet says it has:

"4 External USB 3.0 ports (2 side, 2 rear) and 4 External USB 2.0 ports;"

But doesn't say what chipsets they are.

Does anyone know if it has separate controllers for the USB 2 and USB 3? I've contacted the Dell help/support people but they say they don't know; it was difficult enough to get the number of USB ports! And would 2 ports per USB type be typical

Any information very gratefully received.

Andy