[ale] need input on wobbling decision making on the PC

[Jeff Hubbs]

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.

On 9/14/17 12:58 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Like
>
> https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg
>
> I never had to use it but maybe ill give it test run.
>
> On 14 Sep 2017 12:56 PM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     On 14 Sep 2017 12:46 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
>     <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>
>         BTW, for transcoding, more than 6G RAM is overkill.
>
>         Why don't you transcode something on your current PC? How long
>         does it
>         take?  Is that acceptable or not?  What is the "passmark" for
>         it?  Now
>         use those amazing fractions to guestimate what the CPU you
>         want will
>         take to transcode the same file.  Is that acceptable?
>
>         I would also look at the required power used - which leads to
>         the fan
>         needed which leads to the noise created.  If the system is
>         alone in the
>         basement, perhaps noise doesn't matter to you?  Mine sit in my
>         home
>         office, so noise and excess heat is unacceptable to me.
>
>         Every other time you post, it includes running a few VMs. 
>         More CPUs
>         helps with running more VMs.
>
>         Is it worth it?
>
>
>         It depends. We cannot say.
>
>
>
>         On 09/14/2017 12:26 PM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>         > It depends.
>         >
>         > On 09/14/2017 12:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>         >> Friends:
>         >>
>         >> I am trying to  a PC for transcoding purposes and dont want
>         to spend a
>         >> lot if I can avoid.
>         >>
>         >> I was almost ready with Microcenter for
>         >>
>         >> FX 8350 CPU with eight cores ($70) PassMark of CPU is 8900
>         >> Mother board  ASUS  ($80)
>         >> Memory 16GB CAS9 ($120)
>         >> Paste is $4
>         >>
>         >> All together with taxes = = 282 (no case, no disk, no vid
>         card, key
>         >> board etc., etc.,  not that  ineed it)
>         >> I can reuse existing case.
>         >>
>         >>
>         =================================================================================
>         >> However I saw this for $180 all inclusive.
>         >>
>         https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_09102017
>         <https://flash.newegg.com/Product/9SIA5YV4XJ8211?icid=WP_0_09102017>
>         >>
>         >> The PassMark for the CPU - Intel Core i5-2400 Quad Core
>         Processor -
>         >> 3.1GHz is  5907
>         >>
>         >> ----------------------------
>         >>
>         >> So is the extra 100 dollars for the powerful CPU worth it ?
>         >>
>         >> The purpose of the PC is purely for transcoding purpose the
>         OTA channels
>         >> via HDHR.
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