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09-22-2009, 02:42 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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Simultaneous FFMpeg encodes
Hi I would like to know what type of server would i require to encode up to 10 videos at the same time using FFMpeg h.264 codec with twin passes.
My home pc is a Q6600 quad core 2.4 GHz, 4 GB of ram and its using 50% of my cpu just to do one.
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09-22-2009, 03:35 PM #2Disabled
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Newer Dual Quad Core machines will do the trick for you.
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09-22-2009, 03:36 PM #3Junior Guru Wannabe
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Could I get away with a vps
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09-22-2009, 03:57 PM #4Junior Guru
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FFmpeg usually uses 1 full core/process. I suggest you not less than a dual quad and a lot of ram...
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09-22-2009, 08:33 PM #5Disabled
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I think not, as video encodes require the CPU power to drive them,
you will be able to pull it off with a Quad Xeon machine, which will encode much faster then your Q6600, as i see on our clients machines, which encode videos, they like takeing the Quad Xeon or Dual Quad Xeon machines.
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09-23-2009, 12:02 PM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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09-23-2009, 12:07 PM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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We are considering iweb deal http://iweb.com/landing/performances/
2.4Ghz Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM
How many simultaneous video encodes could I expect form this set up.
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09-23-2009, 02:29 PM #8Junior Guru
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3, without slowing down the site
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09-23-2009, 02:33 PM #9Junior Guru Wannabe
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Ok cool. We were originally looking at gettting two servers one to host the site and stream media and the other for encoding.
I imagined that the encoding would bit too much into the available resourses to be on the same server.
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09-28-2009, 12:15 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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So a 2.4Ghz core 2 quad is capable of doing 3 encodes with out slowing down the site. How many could a 2.4Ghz Quad Xeon do. And also how many could 2 x 2.4Ghz Quad Xeons do without slowing down the site.
Thanks every one for your help.Last edited by mrwelcam; 09-28-2009 at 12:25 AM.
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09-28-2009, 01:27 AM #11Junior Guru
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FFmpeg uses up to 100% of 1 core per process, doesn't matter the speed of the core. If you have a quad expect 3 conversions, if you have 8 cores expect 7 conversions max but you also have to consider RAM and disc speed.
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09-28-2009, 01:32 AM #12Web Hosting Evangelist
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An alternative approach is to using FFmpeg with multi-threading support, depending on codec support, which can potentially mean 1 video uses all 4 cores for instance. Sometimes this approach is faster than running multiple parallel encodes. I think a little bit of experimentation is in order
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09-28-2009, 01:37 AM #13Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yes we wanted to use the h264 codec, I'm pretty sure its supports multitheading.
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