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| [Parts Check] CPU/GPU requirements for transcoding video server I'm looking to set up a quick and dirty transcoding box that can feed and transcode .MKVs to a PS3, and run Squeezebox Server/LMS
What would be the min CPU speeds required to do the trancoding? I was doing fine on an old laptop running an intel core duo for serving only but no transcoding; but this build would definitely involve transcoding.
I'll be using Xubuntu and serving up Printer Shares, NFS and Samba shares and probably running PS3 Media Server as well as SBS/LMS
Your feedback is always welcome.
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kudos:3 | Re: [Parts Check] CPU/GPU requirements for transcoding video ser It would be cheaper to just buy a popcorn hour or a WD tv live to be honest. They use like < 10W (way, way less than a PS3) power wise, and no transcoding is required (for the most part).
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| said by pflog:It would be cheaper to just buy a popcorn hour or a WD tv live to be honest. They use like < 10W (way, way less than a PS3) power wise, and no transcoding is required (for the most part).
The TV is only here for the Winter so I'm looking to put together a solution rather than buying something else. I have a dual core AMD that's collecting dust so I'm trying to figure out if it'll cut the mustard for the transcoding.
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Monroeville, PA | Personally, I'd just use the old AMD dual core and hook it up to the TV with a $20 Geforce 210 or ATI 5450 and run XBMC on it. |
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said by El Quintron:said by pflog:It would be cheaper to just buy a popcorn hour or a WD tv live to be honest. They use like < 10W (way, way less than a PS3) power wise, and no transcoding is required (for the most part).
The TV is only here for the Winter so I'm looking to put together a solution rather than buying something else. I have a dual core AMD that's collecting dust so I'm trying to figure out if it'll cut the mustard for the transcoding. A dual core AMD is going to be quite slow at this. I'm trying to remember if it was 720p or 1080p video, but my old Q9550 quad core Intel Core 2 Quad, using all cores, could barely eek out 20 fps conversion rate. That's less than realtime.
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| said by pflog:A dual core AMD is going to be quite slow at this. I'm trying to remember if it was 720p or 1080p video, but my old Q9550 quad core Intel Core 2 Quad, using all cores, could barely eek out 20 fps conversion rate. That's less than realtime.
Something to think about...
I had a Q6700 in the previous incarnation of my production rig and I seem to recall the rates being better than that; on ps3media server with Ubuntu, mind you this was 3+ years ago so I don't have any real world examples right now.
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If you were running Windows, I'd have suggested a Gen2 or Gen3 Intel Core processor and utilize QuickSync. Can transcode full movies in a matter of minutes. But you have to have one of the apps that support QuickSync, and I don't think there are any for Linux at this point, which is quite a shame actually.
I've transcoded 1GB .mkv files in like 4 minutes on my Gen3 Core i5.
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| said by ccallana:I've transcoded 1GB .mkv files in like 4 minutes on my Gen3 Core i5.
That's fast. I'm looking for an on-the-fly transcoder, so that the PS3 can play them but I'm not looking for any permanent rip.
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said by Gordo74:Personally, I'd just use the old AMD dual core and hook it up to the TV with a $20 Geforce 210 or ATI 5450 and run XBMC on it.
Agreed. It'll probably not be able to handle much above 480p transcoding.
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