[Wylug-discuss] Linux-specific buying advice - system purely for video editing/encoding/rendering

[James Holden]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 20:46 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> this means lots of CPU power

Entirely concur with this. Transcoding video will be almost entirely
CPU-bound, and since it typically doesn't multi-thread very well, simply
encode as many videos in parallel as you have cores.

With a fast, modern CPU, you should be able to transcode at many times
real-time. My old 64-bit 2GHz desktop machine can transcode MPEG2 to MP4
(for encoding DVD rips) at around 2-3x real-time IIRC (it's a while
since I did it).

James

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