[gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best regards, Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Hey, what about the new G5??? 1Ghz memory bandwidth has gotta be really nice with video encoding. bryce On Monday 28 July 2003 08:22 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best regards, Prabhat -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best regards, Prabhat PowerMac G5 ;-P Actually, does anyone know if it will it run Gentoo-PPC? It should, right? -brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
At 28 July, 2003 Brian Downey wrote: Hi, I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP I would like you hear your expereince with this. Best regards, Prabhat PowerMac G5 ;-P Actually, does anyone know if it will it run Gentoo-PPC? It should, right? Well, it probably well, but I don't think Gentoo will be able to take full advantage of the G5 yet - or does the latest version of GCC already incorporate all of Apple's G5 patches? Anyway, if you're planning to do serious video work, you probably ought to use OS X anyway. (Horrors!) As great as Linux is, I don't think there's a lot of movie editing software for Linux, other than perhaps film-gimp; however, OS X has a lot of media software available. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
On July 28, 2003 04:22 pm, Prabhat Gupta wrote: I am planning to buy a desktop for (home) video editing and off course I will do a lot of compiling, listening to music etc. What processor would be good: 1. Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading 2. Pentium 4 (plain vanilla) 3. Athlon XP while i haven't had a lot of linux experience in video editing, i can tell you that most of the software in the windows world was developed with intel in mind. most of the mainstream encoders actually optimise their binaries for intel architectures (a big pissoff for an athlon user like myself). whether this is the case or not in the linux world (espeically since gentoo will let you optimise for your own architecture) i'm not sure. also, i'm sorry to say, the video editing world in linux isn't nearly as ready as osX or even windows, so if i was getting a new toy to do video editing, then i'd probably do a dual boot win/linux on an intel box since i hate mac's so very much. ...that is, if i didn't have $6000 and could get gentoo on the new g5... then i'd dual boot osX (for the video software) / linux. -- I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. - emile henry gauvreay -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Brian Downey wrote: PowerMac G5 ;-P Actually, does anyone know if it will it run Gentoo-PPC? It should, right? Should do. The CPU (IBM PowerPC 970) is supported by gcc3, and the rest of the hardware seems to be pretty standard. Don't know about booting -- I guess it's the same as the G4s... I was thinking about getting one, but then I heard that IBM will be releasing their own 970-based SMP workstations (Linux officially supported, although I guess it'll be SuSE) for similar prices, so I'm holding on for another few months... Would be nice to be able to put in a proper disk system, and also wouldn't have to pay for OS X that way. Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Brian Downey wrote: PowerMac G5 ;-P Actually, does anyone know if it will it run Gentoo-PPC? It should, right? Should do. The CPU (IBM PowerPC 970) is supported by gcc3, and the rest of the hardware seems to be pretty standard. Don't know about booting -- I guess it's the same as the G4s... I was thinking about getting one, but then I heard that IBM will be releasing their own 970-based SMP workstations (Linux officially supported, although I guess it'll be SuSE) for similar prices, so I'm REALLY?! A PowerPC IBM workstation in a similar price bracket to the G5wow I would love to more than just see that. Has IBM released any other details on this system's architecture? Simon holding on for another few months... Would be nice to be able to put in a proper disk system, and also wouldn't have to pay for OS X that way. Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) writes: [ ... ] Anyway, if you're planning to do serious video work, you probably ought to use OS X anyway. (Horrors!) As great as Linux is, I don't think there's a lot of movie editing software for Linux, other than perhaps film-gimp; however, OS X has a lot of media software available. have you tried Kino? some of my users are very happy with it, but it probably depends on your needs. -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
Simon Mushi wrote: Should do. The CPU (IBM PowerPC 970) is supported by gcc3, and the rest of the hardware seems to be pretty standard. Don't know about booting -- I guess it's the same as the G4s... I was thinking about getting one, but then I heard that IBM will be releasing their own 970-based SMP workstations (Linux officially supported, although I guess it'll be SuSE) for similar prices, so I'm REALLY?! A PowerPC IBM workstation in a similar price bracket to the G5wow I would love to more than just see that. Has IBM released any other details on this system's architecture? Well, no details from IBM as far as I know, but plenty of articles out there... http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1197450,00.asp , for example, although I'm not entirely sure that a 4-way system would be under US$4,000... There's also a slashdot discussion, http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/20/0152245 The article describes these as rack-mounted servers -- however, if you look at IBM's current low-end Power4-based stuff, there's a pretty good chance they'll be available in the (really heavy) scary black towers as well. 'Course, it should be easy enough to rip the insides out and put them into something else... Regards, -- Ciaran McCreesh mail: ciaranm*firedrop#org#uk -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best processor for Video Encoding type job
On Monday 28 July 2003 14:52, Terje Kvernes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) writes: ... Anyway, if you're planning to do serious video work, you probably ought to use OS X anyway. (Horrors!) As great as Linux is, I don't think there's a lot of movie editing software for Linux, other than perhaps film-gimp; however, OS X has a lot of media software available. have you tried Kino? some of my users are very happy with it, but it probably depends on your needs. Cinelerra - Movie studio in a box. Heroine Virtual Ltd. presents an advanced compositing and editing system for native Linux at no cost to users. http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 -- Know your neighbor. Discover independent media: http://www.thislife.org/ - This American Life - documenting everyday life in the US. http://www.humanmedia.org/ - Promoting compassion, service, generosity and equality. http://www.worldlinktv.org/ - a global perspective on news, current events and culture -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
