[FFmpeg-user] Dual Xeon VS Haswell-E, maximize fps

[Ryan M]

Yeah really the actual space/room is the issue there, not sure where i'd
put that.
With PPSS, it looks like it distributes the encoding of different files
over the available resources, it wouldn't spread a single encoding job over
them correct?  I do need a way to automate ffmpeg instances so more jobs
can run at the same time. My jobs aren't just  a bunch of files sitting in
a directory, it is querying a db for files that need to be encoded in
various ways.


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl>
wrote:

> Why wouldn’t it be realistic ?
> Have a look at https://code.google.com/p/ppss/ to distribute jobs over
> the amount of systems you have and works like a charm.
> On 29 Sep 2014, at 17:05, Ryan M <rymerrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know that it is realistic to have 8 systems running though.  If I
> > can pay more and have the approx same amount of throughput with one
> system,
> > that would be better.
> In what way would it be better, less room, yes but that’s very expensive
> room you pay for in my opinion.
> >  I just don't want to pay like $4k  more (for the
> > Xeon vs Haswell-EP) and only get a few more fps out of it.  If stepping
> up
> > to Xeon allows ~40fps like Sean said then it is probably worth it.
>  Thank
> > you very much for the input.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 28 Sep 2014, at 13:13, Henk D. Schoneveld <belcampo at zonnet.nl>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 26 Sep 2014, at 18:36, Ryan M <rymerrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I am putting together hardware to encode a large and ever growing
> >> catalog
> >>>> of video using ffmpeg/x264.  Much of the source video is 1080p
> ProResHQ.
> >>>> Currently I have a box with a Haswell 4770k CPU which gets around
> 12-15
> >>>> fps, I am of course looking to increase that as much as possible.
> >>> Have a look at
> >>
> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+%40+3.00GHz&id=2332
> >>> and compare with
> >>>
> >>
> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4770K+%40+3.50GHz&id=1919
> >>> or in 1 view
> >>> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1919&cmp[]=2364
> >>> 7 times the price for less then 2 times the performance.
> >>> Spreading the task over more much cheaper CPU’s gives you more bang for
> >> the buck if realtime encoding isn’t needed.
> >>> You could use 8 Dual Celeron systems to get the same performance as 1
> >> E5-2690 where CPU cost would be 8x52.45 vs. 1x2299.99 Of course
> >> motherboards etc are needed and housing but a low cost MB and Housing
> can
> >> be bought at < 100.00 a piece. 8*(100+52.45) ~ 1220.00
> >>> Saved more then $1.000 And the Xeon still needs a motherboard and case
> >> of course.
> >> The CPU Mark and single thread performance are good indicators for
> >> relative ffmpeg encoding speeds. I do have i5 i7 and the named Celerons
> >> which I compared extensively with the same source files and encoding
> >> parameters.
> >> Disk I/O isn’t any problem, think of it, 5 times BluRay bitrates results
> >> in 90Kb/s < 12MB/s. Every modern disk has no problem with that and even
> >> old-fashioned nics, 100Mb/s can cope with that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Trying to determine if getting the latest dual CPU Xeon (such as
> E5-2690
> >>>> v3) setup is going to be worth the significant additional cost over
> the
> >>>> best Haswell-E (Core i7-5960X).
> >>>>
> >>>> I've read lots of articles/posts and it is not clear to me.  I know
> >> worth
> >>>> is subjective but looking to know if there'll be significant increase
> in
> >>>> fps using 2 Xeons.  I need to justify the $6-7k price tag.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any insight/experience would be appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> Ryan
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