UltraGrid Preliminaries (Linux)

This page lists recommended and minimal hardware requirements as well as the software requirements for Linux installation of UltraGrid. (For macOS preliminaries, click here.

Hardware

• You recommend 64-bit CPU with at least 2 cores, running 64-bit version of Linux (although other configurations may also work)
  • we prefer and test with 2x 2-core Opteron CPUs
  • we prefer and test with 64-bit Ubuntu (both latest and LTS), Fedora, Debian and openSUSE
• You need any modern NVidia or AMD GPU for SW display or for GPU based compressions
  • if you want to use future JPEG2000 compression, you will need NVidia GT 580 or so (but not AMD), otherwise any recent GPU should be sufficient, even for HD DXT compression
  • it is strongly recommended to use proprietary drivers
  • there is a bug in a AMD's drivers causing poor performance when using SDL display - if you need to use it, we recommend to switch to open-source drivers for this moment
  • DXT compression on GPU is tested with OpenGL 3.3
• If you want to use uncompressed 1.5Gbps streams (either sending or receiving), you need 10GbE network interface card
  • we prefer and test with PCIe Myrinet 10GbE
• If you need SDI sending/receiving capabilities, you'll need DVS, DeckLink or Linsys Quad card
  • Linsys module in UG supports only capturing

Required software

You will need these software (in brackets are is a optional feature for which you'll need it):

• X.Org and ATI/NVidia proprietary drivers (receiver - OpenGL/SDL display, sender - RTDXT compression)

• SDL (SDL display)

• OpenGL (RTDXT sender or OpenGL display on receiver)

• GLEW library (DXT sender)

• DVS SDK/Blackmagic drivers/Quad drivers

• devel packages needs to be installed as well