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The engineering aspects of this depends on known performance of the software doing the video process. If it doesn't have to be real-time (i.e. watching the video as it's being transcoded), less speed and more cores and RAM are a better buy. If it is a live process you'll need to sacrifice virtual machine performance with fewer cores at higher cpu speed and moderate ram with really good storage IO. CPU controlled ram is faster than chipset controlled but it takes cpu cycles to manage ram. I'm not sure if ram refresh is a cpu process or embedded in the ram now. The later would be great.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My VM's are mainly for some windows work like, taxes and some non-Linux-available or non-wine-compatible software. So worst case I can shut this down during non usage times. I would like to connect 1TB (3 count) HDD drives that will have the videos that I have ripped out of my DVD's and VCD's.</div><div><br></div><div>May be I can dedicate my AM2+ CPU with 4GB RAM to be able to do this for me instead of the above beefy machine. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
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The AMD ryzan performance error is being fixed with replacement. Apparently the fixed cpu does a kernel compile in under 30 seconds now. :-)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So am I better off to wait for a couple more months to get the fixed CPU in the market ? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 10:16:04 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com" target="_blank">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Good email. Thank You<div>I am under constant confusion. I was at the ALE Sunday meets last weekend and before that. I am trying to build a PC where I can record the SiliconDust output to the disk and stream that to my roku or appletv or chromecast. (whichever is easy)</div><div><br></div><div>I have gotten great advise about this but what I am have understood so far is that a fast CPU is a must for transcoding from the recorded mpeg2 to .264 format. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">As Steve has pointed out if I get an i7 (dont know about Ryzen as reliable) and put like 32GB of RAM on it would I be able to do both transcoding and run say 2 or 3 VM's on them ? or am I stretching it too much.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-N</div></div></div></div>
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