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[fabian]

The hardware requirements are quite low:
For an efficient analysis, you just have to make sure that you are running MEA in 64-bit mode. (See the manual on how to adjust this).
Otherwise, since MEA 3.0, the program runs at a speed that allows MEA to capture each frame in sequence. Thus, on a slow computer, MEA will simply run slower. The speed of the analysis also essentially depends on the resolution of your source’s video:
High-resolution videos (19020 X 1080; HD) run much slower than e.g. files with a resolution of 640 X 480. The same is true for the frame-rate: A video-file with a high frame-rate (e.g. 50 fps) takes much longer than one with a lower rate.

If you have a lot of videos to analyze, you might want to consider recoding your files to a lower resolution with lower frame-rate. (e.g. to 640 X 480 at 10 fps).

Computers with SSD-drives generally run much faster.