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1.1 Hardware recommendations

Touchscreen

The Graphical User Interface of Galicaster is designed in a user-friendly, easy-to-use, big-sized style, making it suitable for tactile devices, specially high resolution touchscreens. However, there's nothing against using it with a classic mouse and keyboard interface.

Any touchscreen compatible with your distribution will fit with Galicaster.

Capture Devices 

In this release, two reference configurations are proposed. One uses an USB web camera the other uses a video capture card, such as the Hauppauge PVR350. In both cases, using a VGA capture card model VGA2USB or superior is recommended.

Video Capture Card

Component
Known Good Hardware Notes
Processor & Motherboard
Intel i3 Processor
4GB RAM
Not much CPU is needed, since the video capture card encodes the video stream by hardware
Video Capture Card
Hauppauge PVR-250
Hauppauge PVR-350
Hauppauge HVR-1600
The audio is also captured with this card
VGA Capture Card
VGA2USB
VGA2USB-I
VGA2USB LR
VGA2USB LR-I
VGA2PCI
 

WebCam USB

Component
Known Good Hardware Notes
Processor & Motherboard
Intel i5 Processor
4GB RAM
As both video streams need encoding, there is a higher CPU demand
WebCam
USB Logitech HD Pro Webcam
Valid for all web cameras compatible with V4L2
Sound Card Linux compatible  
VGA Capture Card
VGA2USB
VGA2USB-I
VGA2USB LR
VGA2USB LR-I
VGA2PCI
 



In the cookbook section there are solutions for setting a capture card in Linux.


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