Requirements

  • CasparCG-capable hardware
  • CasparCG
  • SongBeamer for adding chords to songs
  • Linux: pandoc and LaTeX-packages (basic, langgerman, latex, latexrecommended, latexextra, fontsextra, fontsrecommended)

Hardware capable of running CasparCG

According to the CasparCG README.md:

System Requirements

  • A graphics card (GPU) capable of OpenGL 4.5 is required.
  • An Nvidia GPU is recommended, but other GPU’s will likely work fine.
  • Intel and AMD CPU’s have been tested and are known to work
  • PCIE bandwidth is important between your GPU and CPU, as well as Decklink and CPU. Avoid chipset lanes when possible.

OpenGL 4.5

OpenGL 4.5 is supported by1

  • AMD Radeon HD 5000 series and newer
  • Intel HD graphics in Intel Broadwell (5th generation) and newer
  • Nvidia Geforce 400 series and newer
  • Nvidia Tegra K1 and Tegra X1

Windows

  • Only Windows 10 is supported

Linux

  • Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 are recommended
  • Other distributions and releases will work but have not been tested

  1. Information from Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL ↩