Transcoding anything >720p is painful.

I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android.

What’s a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere?

Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265

Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu’s a thing?

  • quinkin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If time is not a consideration just batch up transcodes with your shitty hardware and nice/renice the process out of the way.

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      1 year ago

      It seems unreasonable with the hardware, even with nice things.

      I run Gentoo, with lots of binaries, on my 2011 iMac just fine but encoding HD video on it feels like abuse.