How good would a quad 700mhz xeon be for encoding h.264 and wmv9 and such?

[Goosemaster]

?

Compared to let's say a single a64 3000+ 754

 

[xtknight]

Depends if the encoder is multithreaded. If not, it will suck. If so, it will be maybe a little faster than an A64 3000+. Most aren't multithreaded these days, but soon they will be. The only one I know of that is is DivX Helium, but that's neither of the codecs you mentioned. I'm not sure about WME but I don't think any of the current H.264 encoders are multithreaded either, but I'm not sure.

 

[Stoneburner]

quad 700 mhz xeon? Are you raiding your local banks file room for computer parts?

 

[bluslice]

along the subject of h.264 encoders, what video cards support it?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: bluslice
along the subject of h.264 encoders, what video cards support it?

it's all done in software for now....the next generation ati cards will appearantly have support for it...


right now we are undergoing the "mpeg2 dilemma" all over again....it jsut kills msot every pc out there

 

[Goosemaster]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Proliant-ML5...27QQcategoryZ56104QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Goosemaster]

If only for the ventilation....

 

[bdoople]

Jebus.. Makes me want to sell my video card for some extra money for a nice server.

 

[ND40oz]

Make sure you have a separate room for that server, cause it's going to be loud...

 

[bluslice]

holy crap. I don't think that server would do u any good unless you had a t1 connection in your house

 

[tuteja1986]

just get a x1800xl for $380ish if you want h264 decoder... they will mature the software ! i don't think avivo is crap , it just needs driver update !

 

[Peter]

Can we now stop mixing up decoders and encoders?

Graphics cards have DEcoding assist, to allow smooth replay. ENcoding is content creation, typically done with CPUs.

In these bandwidth-hungry tasks, PIII Xeons, with their northbridge-centric, bottlenecked FSB architecture will typically be eaten for breakfast by a halfway decent AMD64 setup. Even if it's four against one.

 

[tuteja1986]

err sorry... !

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Peter
Can we now stop mixing up decoders and encoders?

Graphics cards have DEcoding assist, to allow smooth replay. ENcoding is content creation, typically done with CPUs.

In these bandwidth-hungry tasks, PIII Xeons, with their northbridge-centric, bottlenecked FSB architecture will typically be eaten for breakfast by a halfway decent AMD64 setup. Even if it's four against one.

Thank You.

 

[gsellis]

BUT, at $200, there is something cool that could be done. Pro editors and animation packages are like Major League baseball, they work the farm system. That not might not be bad for farming renders out on networkable tools. But another BUT, the cost of the software that is capable of it may exceed the price of a dual Opteron...

Nah, get the better, new chip. Old hardware is getting to that magical mean time where failure is *soon*.

 

[imported_maelstrom]

Originally posted by: Peter
Can we now stop mixing up decoders and encoders?

Graphics cards have DEcoding assist, to allow smooth replay. ENcoding is content creation, typically done with CPUs.

In these bandwidth-hungry tasks, PIII Xeons, with their northbridge-centric, bottlenecked FSB architecture will typically be eaten for breakfast by a halfway decent AMD64 setup. Even if it's four against one.

How about YOU get it right. This generation ATI cards can use the bi-directional PCI-X lanes to ENCODE using the GPU. It's about 5x faster than the fastest dual core AMD processor and it apparently kicks some major ass. Once the software/implimentation is worked out then encoding on our CPU's will be a thing of the past.

 

[Steve]

PCI-E lanes

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: maelstrom

Originally posted by: Peter
Can we now stop mixing up decoders and encoders?

Graphics cards have DEcoding assist, to allow smooth replay. ENcoding is content creation, typically done with CPUs.

In these bandwidth-hungry tasks, PIII Xeons, with their northbridge-centric, bottlenecked FSB architecture will typically be eaten for breakfast by a halfway decent AMD64 setup. Even if it's four against one.

How about YOU get it right. This generation ATI cards can use the bi-directional PCI-X lanes to ENCODE using the GPU. It's about 5x faster than the fastest dual core AMD processor and it apparently kicks some major ass. Once the software/implimentation is worked out then encoding on our CPU's will be a thing of the past.

And perhaps you should chill out.

And for the record it is PCI-E not PCI-X!!

-Kevin