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Ustream Producer & Producer Pro Technical Specifications

System Requirements

Mac
  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later, including Lion
  • Intel Based Mac
  • Minimum 512MB RAM
  • QuickTime 7 or higher
  • 200 MB HD (For install)
  • HD space for recording to disk
  • A Quartz Extreme capable graphics card
  • Minimum Intel Core Duo or better 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
  • Sufficient upload speed (500kbps for low quality, 800kbps for good, 1.6 Mb and up for HD).
Windows
  • Windows 7 Processor: 2.3 GHz 32- or 64-bit, 1 GB RAM, or:
  • Windows Vista Processor: 2.3 GHz 32-bit (x86), 1 GB RAM, or:
  • Windows XP, SP2 Processor: 2.1 GHz 32-bit (x86), 512 MB RAM
  • QuickTime 7.5
  • 200 MB HD (for install)
  • HD space for recording to disk
  • 32 MB PCI-Express graphics card with 3D acceleration (GeForce or Radeon class card recommended)
  • Microsoft® DirectX 9.0c
  • GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or better for Chroma Key
  • Sufficient upload speed (500kbps for low quality, 800kbps for good, 1.6 Mb and up for HD).

Video Input Devices

  • Live USB cameras
  • Live Firewire cameras (DV or HDV)
  • Analog to Firewire converters (DV or HDV)
  • Blackmagic Capture Cards

CDN/Streaming Media Host Requirements

Please note:

Producer, Producer Pro and Producer Studio are not compatible with Watershed. For high-quality streaming on Watershed, we recommend Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder, Telestream's Wirecast or Newteks's Tricaster.