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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I'd recommend doing some benchmarks on these platforms before making a recommendation. The Pi, while a cool board for the price, is pretty underpowered for this kind of task. I was only able to pull about 10 FPS off a Logitech webcam using the Pi using OpenCV without doing any image analysis. I was using the Python bindings so there is probably some performance to be claimed by nixing the interpreter and compiling some C, but I don't think it will be much.
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Remember that since the raspberry pi is still very new, its drivers arnt perfect to say the least. Particularity the USB drivers are pretty bad, which is probably some of the issue you are having with the Pi (And with a kinect into the Pi it just doesnt work period)