>I am putting together hardware to encode a large and ever growing catalog >of video using ffmpeg/x264. Much of the source video is 1080p ProResHQ. >Currently I have a box with a Haswell 4770k CPU which gets around 12-15 >fps, I am of course looking to increase that as much as possible. > >Trying to determine if getting the latest dual CPU Xeon (such as E5-2690 >v3) setup is going to be worth the significant additional cost over the >best Haswell-E (Core i7-5960X).
>I've read lots of articles/posts and it is not clear to me. I know worth >is subjective but looking to know if there'll be significant increase in >fps using 2 Xeons. I need to justify the $6-7k price tag. > >Any insight/experience would be appreciated. > >thanks >Ryan I have used ffmpeg/x264 on a wide variety of machines from the i7 up to dual 8-core xeon systems. While some codecs are not optimized to use all available cores, the x264 engine definitely does and it makes a huge difference. I have seen speeds up to 40 fps encoding to H264 elementary streams from DNxHD QT sources on a dual 8-core xeon. Your IO speed has an influence on this as well. -Sean _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
