[PD] Pd minimum requirements

[marius schebella]

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 at footils.org>
To: <pd-list at iem.at>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [PD] Pd minimum requirements


> Hallo,
> huolong at arcor.de hat gesagt: // huolong at 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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