Technical Specifications
System Requirements
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later, including Lion
- Intel Based Mac or Apple Power PC G5
- Minimum 2GB RAM
- QuickTime 7 or higher
- 200 MB hard drive(for install)
- Hard drive space for recording to disk
- A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card
- Intel Core Duo or dual G5 is required for HDV decoding
- QTSS/DSS 4.1.3 or later is needed for automatic "announce" unicasting
- A supported GPU is required for Core Image and GPU video compression acceleration
- Flash streaming on Mac requires Intel based processor
- Sufficient upload speed (500k for low quality, 1.0 MB up for good and 2.0 MB for HD)
Windows
- Windows 7 processor: 2.3 GHz dual core
32- or 64-bit, 2 GB RAM, or: - Windows Vista processor: 2.3 GHz dual core
32-bit (x86), 2 GB RAM, or: - Windows XP, SP2 processor: 2.1 GHz
32-bit (x86), 1 GB RAM - QuickTime 7.5
- 200 MB hard drive (for install)
- Hard drive space for recording to disk
- 256 MB PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce or Radeon class card recommended)
- Microsoft® DirectX 9.0c
- Sufficient upload speed (500k for low quality, 1.0 MB up for good and 2.0 MB for HD)
Video Input Devices
- Live USB cameras
- Live Firewire cameras (DV or HDV)
- Analog to Firewire converters (DV or HDV)
See more details about supported and suggested video capture devices here in our FAQ:
What Video Capture devices are recommended for Wirecast?
CDN/Streaming Media Host Requirements
Flash Streaming (RTMP)
- Live Streaming of H.264 or VP6 Flash (Spark Codec not available)
- Flash Media Server (3.5) or Wowza Server (2.0 and later)
- Sufficient Upload Speed (500k for low quality, 1.0 MB up for good and 2.0 MB for HD)
QuickTime Streaming (RTSP)
- Live Streaming for RTMP (H.264 or MPEG4 recommended)
- Sufficient Upload Speed (500k for low quality, 1.0 MB up for good and 2.0 MB for HD)
Windows Media Streaming (MMS)
- Live Streaming for MMS
- Sufficient Upload Speed (500k for low quality, 1.0 MB up for good and 2.0 MB for HD)