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Installation
At last one PC running 64-bit Windows is required to setup a channel. CasparCG is used as a main video player, therefore hardware requirements are practically identical. As video inputs and outputs are usually used Blackmagic Design Decklink cards, so corresponding PCIe slots will be required. One extra PCIe slot in most cases however is used for VGA card (OpenGL capabilities are required by CasparCG). Mentioned PCIe cards may consume many PCI lanes, therefore server configuration with Xeon processor's is recommended.
This is the actual video player, so you have to get, install and configure it. Refer to CasparCG's wiki. Please note that official release of CasparCG 2.07 is not able to precisely seek long-GOP files. Until this, you can either:
- use I-frame-only format while playing files (configure ingest folder's encode properties to produce I-frame files with
-intraFFmpeg parameter), - ensure that files are always played from beginning (never set start timecode to value other than clip first frame in play-out application),
- use a fork of CasparCG that supports this (e.g. our, binaries are included with this release). OpenGL requirement for CasparCG 2.0x (and our fork) is VGA card with support for at least OpenGL v3.3 or higher. For new releases of CasparCG 2.2 minimum OpenGL v4.5 is required.
MySQL currently is the only database engine supported by this project. Get it from their site. You have to install server itself; MySql Workbench may also be helpful. MySQL.NET client is contained in this application release. Note that MySql by default requires password change every year for database users.
If not already installed, you can download it from MS. Binaries available below are 64-bit, so please install this version of redistributable too.
Application binaries as well as CasparCG fork are available to download from releases page here. There is no installer currently, simply extract archive (using 7-zip) to folder of your choice.
After application is downloaded and dependencies installed, one can proceed to configure it.