1.1 Hardware recommendations

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h4. 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.

h4. 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.
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h6. Video Capture Card


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|| 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 \\ | |

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h6. WebCam USB

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|| 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 \\ | |

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In the [cookbook|Galicaster:Cookbook] section there are solutions for setting a capture card in Linux.