I have been trying to use my Pi as a webcam server. My current setup is Raspbian using Motion. When I try to use 2 webcams, which is what I need, only 1 works. The other is a gray image. At first I thought maybe it was a power issue so I used a powered hub and I still got the same output. This leads me to believe that either the Pi cannot transcode 2 webcams or that it can't push enough data over my network. I came up with a slightly expensive solution: using hardware accelerated webcams that automatically transcode the video to h.264. The link describes the webcams I am thinking about.
http://www.mgraves.org/2010/05/the-free ... mpression/
Would this most likely solve my problem or would I still be stuck with only 1 webcam working?