Can I capture on a low-power machine but encode on a more powerful machine? (1 Viewer)

[sofakng]

I have a fairly powerful VMware ESXi virtual server but my USB capture card (Genpix Skywalker-2) doesn't function properly using USB passthrough so it looks like I'm going to need to stick it in another machine.

I really wanted to consolidate machines but it looks like I'm going to need another option.

Can I use a very low-power machine (Intel Atom?) to capture content but then have my ESXi server encode the content? If so, how would this work and can anybody give me any advice?

Thanks!

 

[tourettes]

Not possible. TV card and the server process need to be running on the same PC.