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1.2.0 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 

Three reference configurations are proposed, but other combinations are posible:

For instance: The audio may be recorded independent from the video capture card, though it's not usually 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

WebCam USB


Component
Known Good Hardware Notes
Processor & Motherboard
Intel i7 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
 



HD unit


Component
Known Good Hardware Notes
Processor & Motherboard
Intel i5 Processor
4GB RAM
As both video streams need encoding, there is a higher CPU demand
HD capturer
Blackmagic Intensity Pro
Blackmagic Decklink SDI
Sound embebed or analog
HDMI, SDI or Component

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


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