[Kdenlive-devel] Hardware Requirements

[José Jorge]

cjubon a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> for the documentation (German wikibook, in that case), I'd like to add a
> short section in the "Get and install" chapter about hardware
> requirements. However, I've no idea what to write. It just seems to me
> that my dual PIII (2 x 1GHz) is too slow for a jerkyless preview of
> effects (mirroring, clip speed).
This is really hard to know : as example, a clip made of an image folder 
of 1600x900 images can't be rendered in realtime on a PentiumM-1733. 
Only resizing them to PAL (768x576) is enough to get speed. I would say 
hardware needs depend on quality needs. I've succesfuly worked on a low 
quality project (320x240)  on a Celeron 333!
> Could someone be so nice to give me/us some reasonable values regarding
> * hard disk (any special requirement, e.g. SATA, for HDV?)
>   
SATA is not faster than ATA : the bootleneck is mecanical of harddisks, 
and all of them are fast enough to store 30MB/s (uncompressed HDV)
> * CPU (min. speed for effects preview?; can kdenlive by itself make use
> of smp/multi-core systems?)
>   
No multi-core support in kdenlive, except if you want to work while 
rendering : the renderer is a separate thread.
> * GPU (any special requirements - I don't think so)
>   
You're right, no GPU is used.
> * further, one needs a firewire port (USB not working, right?) - that's
> it, I think
Firewire (IEEE 1394 standard) is only needed to plug a DV cam, this is 
not the only way to use Kdenlive.


Good luck with such information. As example, I would only  say : don't 
expect to work on huge movies with weak hardware ;-)