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Originally Posted by raymor
Check supermicro.com. I don't keep up with CPUs that much but I know the quad socket in clonebox2 didn't cost us too much. Another of our boxes has a supermicro board with two quad cores.
There are also a number of hardware h.264 encoder and transcoder chips available. Some software such as ffmpeg and Final Cut can use the Maxim MG1264 board, for example, so the hard work of encoding and transcoding is done by a dedicated chip made for that purpose rather than by the CPU.
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I got the matrox max card, total crap for real video editing and final production, only good for testing stuff out, you have to have a flattened video for it to accelerate it.. and their software doesn't do a good job fine tuning the h.264 setting for various devices and various mbps...
I'll checkout some other boards soon, pretty put off though from my matrox experience and they were rated the best.
But when you just need some quickie stuff, it does it 1:1 ratio or better which is pretty incredible.