[bradknowles]

There are ways to configure Shinobi so that you don’t need ffmpeg to record the main stream — you just write it to disk and save it.

You would need ffmpeg only if you’re going to do motion sensing, and the recommended way of doing that is to run it on a separate stream that is lower resolution and lower frame rate, which you can the monitor and take actions on the main stream for that camera based on what you detect in the lower bandwidth stream.

I agree that you don’t want to do a lot of ffmpeg processing all over the place.