Why wouldn’t it be realistic ? Have a look at https://code.google.com/p/ppss/ to distribute jobs over the amount of systems you have and works like a charm. On 29 Sep 2014, at 17:05, Ryan M <rymerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know that it is realistic to have 8 systems running though. If I > can pay more and have the approx same amount of throughput with one system, > that would be better. In what way would it be better, less room, yes but that’s very expensive room you pay for in my opinion. > I just don't want to pay like $4k more (for the > Xeon vs Haswell-EP) and only get a few more fps out of it. If stepping up > to Xeon allows ~40fps like Sean said then it is probably worth it. Thank > you very much for the input. > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belca...@zonnet.nl> > wrote: > >> >> On 28 Sep 2014, at 13:13, Henk D. Schoneveld <belca...@zonnet.nl> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 26 Sep 2014, at 18:36, Ryan M <rymerr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>> Have a look at >> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+%40+3.00GHz&id=2332 >>> and compare with >>> >> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4770K+%40+3.50GHz&id=1919 >>> or in 1 view >>> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1919&cmp[]=2364 >>> 7 times the price for less then 2 times the performance. >>> Spreading the task over more much cheaper CPU’s gives you more bang for >> the buck if realtime encoding isn’t needed. >>> You could use 8 Dual Celeron systems to get the same performance as 1 >> E5-2690 where CPU cost would be 8x52.45 vs. 1x2299.99 Of course >> motherboards etc are needed and housing but a low cost MB and Housing can >> be bought at < 100.00 a piece. 8*(100+52.45) ~ 1220.00 >>> Saved more then $1.000 And the Xeon still needs a motherboard and case >> of course. >> The CPU Mark and single thread performance are good indicators for >> relative ffmpeg encoding speeds. I do have i5 i7 and the named Celerons >> which I compared extensively with the same source files and encoding >> parameters. >> Disk I/O isn’t any problem, think of it, 5 times BluRay bitrates results >> in 90Kb/s < 12MB/s. Every modern disk has no problem with that and even >> old-fashioned nics, 100Mb/s can cope with that. >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user
