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Getting Started - System Requirements

To have the best Mycasting experience, your home computer on which you install Orb needs the following:

Operating Systems: Windows XP (incl. MCE 2004/2005) with SP2, Vista (any of the 4 flavors), Mac OS X Intel 10.5 or later**.

Internet connection: a broadband Internet connection (cable, DSL, etc.)

Processor: a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 3200+ CPU

Memory: 1GB of RAM and a few GB of disk space (primarily for your TV or webcam recordings)

To watch Live TV : you will need a TV tuner (tuner with built-in hardware MPEG2 encoder). If your TV feed is via a set-top box, then additional you would need an USB Infra-Red (IR)* Blaster to change channels via Orb.

To stream your webcam: you need an USB webcam attached to your PC

For more details look at our KB-Article; What are the Orb system requirements?

* At this time, the Orb IR blaster program (for changing local TV channels on a set-top box) does not work on the Vista Home Basic and Business editions.

**Currently we do not support Live TV on Mac.

 
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