LOLA Low Latency Audio Visual Streaming System

LOLA: Low Latency Audio Visual Streaming System

Appendix G – Lola Hardware components

HIGH-END PC (Full HD resolution, 1920x1080, RGB) :

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Mid/Full tower case with quiet design, a good air flow circulation and fans, and at least four full height expansion slots (Antec Sonata Solo II or similar)

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Power Supply Unit: at least 860W (Corsair AX860 or better)

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Processor: Intel Core i7 (4930K, 6 cores or better)

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16GB RAM DDR3 (Corsair or Kingston, 4x4GB, Quad Channel DDR3 Memory Kit)

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Motherboard: an high-end motherbord with Intel chipset X79 (i.e. M/B ASRock Fatal1ty X79

Professional or similar) or better with enough PCI-express slots for:

- 1 Graphics Card (16x slot required) … Note: high-end graphics cards occupy the space of two slots!

- 1 BitFlow frame grabber (for the Karbon-CXP a 8x slot is required, for the ALTA-AN a 4x slot is required) or 1 USB3.0 adapter card in case the motherboard has an incompatible USB3-Vision chipset

- 1 RME Audio Card (for the HDSPe-AIO a 1x slot is required)

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SSD (suggested for OS)

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2 HDD - 1TB (Raid 0 configuration) for uncompressed video recording (Western Digital WD-Black)

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 or better (EVGA) … suggested for jpeg hardware acceleration

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Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Ethernet Pci-e adapter (required when an Intel NIC is not integrated on the

motherboard)

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Full-HD LCD Monitor with low response time (<= 2ms)

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OS Windows 7 or 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

MID-RANGE PC (SD/HD resolution, 1024x768, RGB ):

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Mid/Full tower case with quiet design, a good air flow circulation and fans, and at least four full height expansion slots (Antec suggested)

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Power Supply Unit: at least 500/600W (Corsair suggested); it depends on Graphics card

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Processor: Intel Core i7 (3770K, 4 cores)

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8 GB RAM DDR3 (Corsair or Kingston suggested)

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Motherboard: a mid-range motherbord with Intel chipset and enough PCI-express slots for:

- 1 Graphics Card (a 16x slot is required) … Note: high-end graphics cards occupy the space of two slots!

- 1 BitFlow frame grabber (for the Karbon-CXP a 8x slot is required, for the ALTA-AN a 4x slot is required) or 1 USB3.0 adapter card in case the motherboard has an incompatible USB3-Vision chipset

- 1 RME Audio Card (for the HDSPe-AIO a 1x slot is required)

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 (suggested for jpeg hardware acceleration)

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Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Ethernet Pci-e adapter (required when an Intel NIC is not integrated on the motherboard)

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OS Windows 7 or 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

LOW-END PC (SD resolution, 640x480, RGB):

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Mid tower case with qa good air flow circulation and fans, and at least four full height expansion slots

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Power Supply Unit: at least 400/500W

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Processor: Intel Core i5

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4 GB RAM (DDR3)

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Motherboard: a mid-range motherbord with Intel chipset and enough PCI-express slots for:

- 1 Graphics Card (a 16x slot is required)

- 1 BitFlow frame grabber (for the Karbon-CXP a 8x slot is required, for the ALTA-AN a 4x slot is required) or 1 USB3.0 adapter card in case the motherboard has an incompatible USB3-Vision chipset

- 1 RME Audio Card (for the HDSPe-AIO a 1x slot is required)

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Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Ethernet Pci-e adapter (required when an Intel NIC is not integrated on the motherboard)

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OS Windows 7 or 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit)

- Digital cameras and frame grabbers with CoaXPress interface:

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BitFlow Karbon-CXP2

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Imperx B1410C-CXP camera

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Imperx B1411C-CXP camera

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Adimec OPAL-2000C (this is still in beta-testing)

- USB3Vision Digital Cameras (no frame grabber required)

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XIMEA MQ013CG-E2 camera

- Analog cameras and frame grabbers:

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BitFlow ALTA-AN1

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Hitachi KP-FD30

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(Toshiba IK-TF5 - Discontinued)

- Audio Cards:

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RME HDSPe-AIO (Pci-e)

- Possible Audio Components

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2 small Genelec or Yamaha audio monitors

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1 active audio PA system (fox example Mackie)

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2 condenser high quality microphones (for example Neumann KM184)

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1 dynamic microphone (service voice)

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1 analogue mixer (minimum 16ch in, 4 out + Main L/R, 4 AUX (for example Mackie), or one digital mixer with ADAT support

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Various audio cables

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