On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be
> sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But beware that
> there are codecs that cannot (or at least currently don't) use
> multiple threads. These only use one CPU.
>
> From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple
> threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of
> 2*3GHz.

Thanks for your reply. It's all very helpful.

The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg is a
good news.


Thanks.

Augustin.


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Augustin:
> On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>
>> From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple
>> threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of
>> 2*3GHz.
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> The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg is a
> good news.

Don't rely too much on my comments on Blender as I have never used it
and I don't know which operations can be parallelized.

J.
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