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Technical Specifications

 

Mac OS X

  • Mac OS X 10.6 or later, including Mountain Lion
  • Intel Based Mac
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Note: There is a memory leak in Intel HD Graphics 4000 drivers on Mac OSX 10.8.2. This affects newer Mac Minis, MacBook Airs and 13 inch MacBooks that contain the Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card and no secondary graphics card. Upgrading to OSX 10.8.3 resolves this issue.
 

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)

*Note: Windows 8 is not supported at this time.

Want more detailed guidelines on what hardware that might fit with your setup? Read more on the Setup Options page.