Prep

Hippotizer Prep is a hardware dongle that allows for unlimited mixes and windowed, watermarked outputs to be started.

Outputs

Zookeeper:

Prep Supports an unlimited number of Zookeeper outputs based on the hardware.

Output

Prep Supports an unlimited number of outputs.

Recommended Hardware

Hippotizer Prep will work on many Windows 8.1 and 10 machines, including Apple’s running Bootcamp.

The performance of Prep is closely linked to hardware capabilities, specifically the Graphics card (GPU) and media drive.

Prep will generally run well on machines designed for high-resolution gaming. High-end and desktop replacement laptops are preferable to tablets.

Recommended GPUs:

For Desktops:

• AMD FirePro or WX Series (eg. WX7100)
• AMD R7, R9 and RX Series. (eg. RX580)
• NVIDIA GTX (eg. 1070 or 1080)
• NVIDIA Quadro (eg. P4000)

For Laptops:

Discrete Graphics are critical for desirable laptop performance.

• AMD or NVIDIA mobile GPU with at least 2GB of dedicated memory.

Media Drive considerations

The media drive speed and latency will partially determine how much media can be played back at once.

• Solid State Drives (SSD) are considerably faster than traditional drives and should be used wherever possible.
• For HD playback, the SATA interface is often fast enough.
• For 4K or uncompressed playback, the NVMe interface offers far higher read speeds. (M.2 or PCIe work)
• RAID arrays can be used to increase effective drive speed and size. (RAID is not used in Hippotizer hardware due to higher failure incidence)

Other considerations:

• Green Hippo has only tested Intel Processors (CPU). AMD will probably work, though it’s stability and performance is unknown.
• CPU core frequency is more important than core count. So faster cores (even fewer of them) will be better then more slower cores.
• Intel i5 and i7 CPUs offer the best performance. Generation 5 and higher are recommended.
• A minimum of 8GB System RAM is recommended, up to 16GB can aid performance.
• Faster RAM (eg. DDR4 and / or multi-channel RAM) also will help performance.
• Always ensure the system is properly ventilated and cooled. Hippotizer software can draw maximum power from the CPU and GPU when in use.
• Avoid virtual machines such as VMware, or Parallels as hardware resource sharing frequently leads to instability.

Example Prep machine:

• Z270 Motherboard
• Intel i5-7600 CPU
• 16GB DDR4-2133 RAM
• 512GB SSD (SATA 6)
• AMD RX570 GPU

Capturing video into Prep

Hippotizer support Datapath capture cards only. Any Datapath Vision or Vision AV capture cards will work.