The best CPU/Platform for video conversion.

[nevsky]

Hi All,
I'm new in this forum.

I have an old server, AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton + 1Gb Ram and Gentoo Linux installed.
Server works as video converter from several video formats to FLV, for web video using ffmpeg (2 pass).
As you understand it's works very slow.

So, i wold like to asseble a new server to get ot works faster.
Any ideas what CPU/Platform I need to look?
I there any way to use more than one CPU core to convert to FLV using ffmpeg or any other software under Linux.

ffmpeg -i ... ... -threads 2 ... says:
[flv @ 0x8899a20]multi threaded encoding not supported by codec

Sorry for my english.

[Soopafresh]

Hi nevsky:


Converting to .FLV in FFMpeg does not support threads.

Flash 9 and later supports h264 in an MP4 container. This will work with multiple threads in FFMpeg.

Example of h264 MP4 Flash: http://somestuff.org/flashAVC/flvplayer.php?moviename=movies/imax_mute-x640y368.mp4



fastest PCs for video conversion use the Intel I7 processor (4 cores): The I7-920 is pretty cheap ($300)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_m...tel-_-19115202

I7 motherboard ($300)

RAM (6GB DDR3 = $250)

Video Card ($50)

Hard Drives ($100-$200)

Case & Power Supply ($100 - $200)

or, you can buy the Dell XPS I7 for around $1000. See here for information: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic360105.html


or, half as expensive (but half as fast) is a PC using the Intel Q6600 processor.