Neil Bothwick tweaks your troublesome Tux to make it tick smoothly
Q MIN RAM & CPU 4 OBS
I need to prepare a number of (identical) laptops for use in seminars. They’ll be equipped with a webcam, a USB microphone, and an external monitor with speakers. The setup will be used to record role play exercises and play them back to the participants. Software would be OBS and VLC, on a system running Fedora (mainly because I use it every day and thus know it).
Now, how much hardware is needed? We can’t miss out on sound bits or get frame rate of one per second only, so sound 48k, 30fps at 1080 video stream. But I can’t go out and buy a number of laptops to try to figure out which stutters, and I can’t just blow the budget and buy the best. Do you have any guidance on minimum requirements, especially for processor and memory?
This is one of those “how long is a piece of string” questions. As it happens, I was at a presentation on using at a LUG meeting only two days ago, so I emailed the presenter for his advice. itself isn’t particularly demanding – it’s the streaming video and audio that matter. Anything short of a bargain-basement laptop should have a CPU able to
