hi,
actually, it should be told, if you want to do this, you need that...
non-realtime soundgeneration can be done with any cpu without soundcard, (eg. writing the output to a file). for realtime soundgeneration (44,1 kHz) I would suggest 300 MHz ... and a soundcard :-) I dont know the borderline exactly... but I worked some years on a P1 133 and that was to slow for 44,1 kHz. 22k was ok. maybe somebody can give details about videoprocessing also.
Marius.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Pd minimum requirements
Hallo, huolong@arcor.de hat gesagt: // huolong@arcor.de wrote:
hi list,
i first thought on making the tutorial/manual only for windows, but as
the chapter-C will cover the usage of Pd (will be huge) and that is allmost 100% compatible with any OS, so i thought i make the install and launch chapter also for linux and osx.
for starters, i could use some help on defining the "minimum
requirements" for Pd. please correct these points where you can:
Microsoft Windows
- Windows 98 (i don't think we need to mention win95)
- 300 Mhz (if someone can test this, let me know if it's too slow)
- 64 mb ram (should be enough)
I think, even 32 MB is enough, at least on Linux.
- 20 mb free on harddisk (maybe we could spare this point)
- TCP/IP Protocol
- Audio card (optional: for audio input/output)
- MIDI card/device (optional: for MIDI input/output)
- OpenGl compatible graphic card (optional: for GEM)
- Video card/device (optional: for GEM, video input/output)
well, it's not quite logical to mention that multimedia devices are
"optional" for Pd, but you can use Pd for "normal" programming too...
GNU/Linux
- hardware same as windows ?
- depencies ?
- gcc version ?
- kernel issues ?
- ?
Make that for Linux:
Hardware could be less on Linux, as it can generally be configured more lean.
X-Server (Xfree86) (optional, but highly recommended) Tcl/Tk (dito)
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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