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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've used ffmpeg quite a lot recently;
      many cores is life, as is building with -mcpu=native. :) Did not
      know nVidia support was a thing; sadly I think my only nVidia
      hardware is on the machine I transcode on but my last attempt to
      get the right nVidia driver and a modern kernel to work together
      ended in failure. Don't know if it's Coda-ready in any case. <br>
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      On 9/14/17 12:58 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Like 
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        <div dir="auto"><a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg"
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        <div dir="auto">I never had to use it but maybe ill give it test
          run.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Sep 2017 12:56 PM, "Boris
          Borisov" &lt;<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br
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            <div dir="auto">Depends on your needs. I think video
              transcoding in the hardware is available for most modern
              video chipsets. If your priority is speed over quality
              look there.</div>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">On 14 Sep 2017 12:46 PM,
                "DJ-Pfulio" &lt;<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>&gt;
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                  .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">BTW,
                  for transcoding, more than 6G RAM is overkill.<br>
                  <br>
                  Why don't you transcode something on your current PC? 
                  How long does it<br>
                  take?  Is that acceptable or not?  What is the
                  "passmark" for it?  Now<br>
                  use those amazing fractions to guestimate what the CPU
                  you want will<br>
                  take to transcode the same file.  Is that acceptable?<br>
                  <br>
                  I would also look at the required power used - which
                  leads to the fan<br>
                  needed which leads to the noise created.  If the
                  system is alone in the<br>
                  basement, perhaps noise doesn't matter to you?  Mine
                  sit in my home<br>
                  office, so noise and excess heat is unacceptable to
                  me.<br>
                  <br>
                  Every other time you post, it includes running a few
                  VMs.  More CPUs<br>
                  helps with running more VMs.<br>
                  <br>
                  Is it worth it?<br>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  It depends. We cannot say.<br>
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                  On 09/14/2017 12:26 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
                  &gt; It depends.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; On 09/14/2017 12:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
                  wrote:<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Friends:<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; I am trying to  a PC for transcoding purposes
                  and dont want to spend a<br>
                  &gt;&gt; lot if I can avoid.<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; I was almost ready with Microcenter for<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; FX 8350 CPU with eight cores ($70) PassMark
                  of CPU is 8900<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Mother board  ASUS  ($80)<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Memory 16GB CAS9 ($120)<br>
                  &gt;&gt; Paste is $4<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; All together with taxes = = 282 (no case, no
                  disk, no vid card, key<br>
                  &gt;&gt; board etc., etc.,  not that  ineed it)<br>
                  &gt;&gt; I can reuse existing case.<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; ==============================<wbr>==============================<wbr>=====================<br>
                  &gt;&gt; However I saw this for $180 all inclusive.<br>
                  &gt;&gt; <a
href="https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_09102017"
                    rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://flash.newegg.com/Produ<wbr>ct/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_<wbr>09102017</a><br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; The PassMark for the CPU - Intel Core i5-2400
                  Quad Core Processor -<br>
                  &gt;&gt; 3.1GHz is  5907<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; ----------------------------<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; So is the extra 100 dollars for the powerful
                  CPU worth it ?<br>
                  &gt;&gt;<br>
                  &gt;&gt; The purpose of the PC is purely for
                  transcoding purpose the OTA channels<br>
                  &gt;&gt; via HDHR.<br>
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