Douglas Adams said we'd have robots to watch TV for us. That seems to be the designed use case for this.
16gb RAM / 96 video channels ... I haven't done any of that work but it feels like they expect that "96" not to be fully used in practice.
16gb RAM / 96 video channels ... I haven't done any of that work but it feels like they expect that "96" not to be fully used in practice.
Even on the host, 16 GiB is fine for say an NVR. They don't need to keep a lot of state in RAM (or for that matter to do a lot of on-CPU computation either). I can run an 8-stream NVR on a Raspberry Pi 2 without on-NVR analytics. That's about its limit because the network and disk are on the same USB2 bus, but there's spare CPU and RAM.
As a joke I sometimes tell people the automatic flushing toilets in public bathrooms work by having a little camera monitored by someone in a 3rd world country who remotely flushes as needed, while monitoring a whole lot of video feeds. They usually don't buy it, but will often acknowledge that our world is uncomfortably close to having stuff like become reality.