Vlc and quadcore Intel Xeon X3210 and encoding process

[airtek]

Hi guys ,


I'm bying my server , with Intel quad core xeon x3210 64bit , 2 Gigabite of ram ,, raid 1 or 5 ecc...

On this machine I'll put Debian etch stable x86 and ffmpeg for encoding video..

I have some question for this operations:

1)Vlc can use all the performance of a quad core , or use only a processor?

2)When i compile the ffmpeg , I must to use any particular options for increase the performance with this processor?

3) I would like to know if a file, when is processed for encoding, is stored only on the Central memory , or in the Hd , too.


Thanks a lot


Br

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Codec ?

[Argi]

if the codecs are h.264 and DIV3?

[funman]

h264 encoding should take advantage of all cores, about div3 i really have no clue, and don't think ffmpeg maintainers are interested in this codec.

when doing encoding, the file is written on disk (if you don't stream it) and a small portion is kept in memory (when doing 9GB DVD or a continuous stream encoding that seems normal)