cRio and Multiple Cameras

[bensherman]

Today, at our first brainstorming meeting, we were discussing the possibility of adding a second camera to our bot for better viewing ability. I was told that this is very likely not possible because of hardware confliction on the cRio. I'd like to be 100% sure that adding a second camera is not possible. I thought of connecting the two cameras through a switch and then connecting the ethernet cables to the cRio RJ45 camera port. I checked the camera manual, and read that IP addresses can be changed, so there's no problem on that end. But, would the cRio only attempt to read the data from one camera, and if a second camera could be added, what would the performance be when using live view on the new driver stations. I'd suspect that the small PPC processor in the cRio wouldn't handle two live video feeds well. In any case, is adding two or more cameras to the cRio possible? If so, how could this be done.
Thanks - Ben Sherman