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

[Dave Fisher]

On 18 June 2010 21:13, James Holden <wylug at jamesholden.net> wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for the confirmation James. That's what I found on similar kit
(which recently failed).

I'm stuck on a 32-bit single core single CPU machine right now and
it's excruciating. Frankly video encoding is nigh-on impossible ...
hence the plan to buy new hardware.

Dave