*Please note: Wirecast 7 does not support OS X Mavericks or previous versions of OS X Apple Hardware Accelerated H.264 encoding requires a Mac with an integrated Intel GPU.NVIDIA only maintains a general list of supported GPUs → NVIDIA NVENC encoding requires an nvidia GPU with Kepler architecture or newer.List of Intel CPUs supporting QuickSync → Intel Quick Sync Video encoding requires an Intel CPU with an Intel® QuickSync Video core.Hardware accelerated encoding requirements Additional hard disk space required for recording to disk. Minimum 4GB RAM, 2GB free hard disk space. Intel HD, NVIDIA GeForce, or AMD Radeon class graphics adapter that are both DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 capable. Note: 60 FPS streaming will result in increased CPU usage and a high bit rate (4Mbps or higher) for good quality. Intel Core i7 CPU 3.0Ghz or higher recommended for 1080p streaming with x264 30fps.
Intel Core i5 CPU 2.5 Ghz or higher recommended for 720p streaming with x264 30 fps. Intel Core i3 CPU 1.7 Ghz or higher recommended for 540p streaming with x264 30 fps. Windows MJPEG Best Quality Guidelines (Megabytes per second):
Actual data rates will vary depending on quality level selected for ProRes (Mac OS X) or MJPEG recording (Windows), as well as the resolution and frame rate selected.įor Mac OS X ProRes recording please refer to Apple’s ProRes data rate specifications: Solid State Drive or fast RAID array recommended for ISO Recording and Replay functionality.
It is recommended that an upload rate of at least double the desired rate be available.