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Sunday, July 22, 2007 4:27:18 PM
Man, I suck at keeping a blog =). I think blogs are kind of dying off in general on the internet. Now that people have more friends because of the internet, and now that people have more friends on the internet no one can keep up with all of their friends' blogs anyway!
There's been a lot going on. I've been exploring my passion for video again. I've been doing lots of encodes, experimenting with filters, different frame rates, that sort of nonsense. I realize the speed of my quad core when encoding h.264 content with x264 multi-threaded. Man! I encoded some video on the t43p Pentium M and there was no comparison. It takes hours versus minutes, and days versus hours for some stuff. Someone has wired up and tooled an x264 client/server distributed version that I need to check out soon. Also, I'm thinking about building an Intel quad or eight core system now. I'm not sure which yet. The processors are so cheap now, and the motherboards are far from shabby (and far from expensive at around $100 for a really decent board from any of the board makers!). Though, I'll probably buy an Intel made MicroATX G965 board because I've been wanting an Intel board since I saw their failure analysis lab and dealt with some of their engineers directly. What a great facility, and what a badass company.
Anyway, I'll post some benchmarks or something about some real-world video stuff on my Quad-core Opteron at some point, and when I get the quad-core Intel system built, I'll post some benchmarks on that, too. It will be interesting to compare the two
There's been a lot going on. I've been exploring my passion for video again. I've been doing lots of encodes, experimenting with filters, different frame rates, that sort of nonsense. I realize the speed of my quad core when encoding h.264 content with x264 multi-threaded. Man! I encoded some video on the t43p Pentium M and there was no comparison. It takes hours versus minutes, and days versus hours for some stuff. Someone has wired up and tooled an x264 client/server distributed version that I need to check out soon. Also, I'm thinking about building an Intel quad or eight core system now. I'm not sure which yet. The processors are so cheap now, and the motherboards are far from shabby (and far from expensive at around $100 for a really decent board from any of the board makers!). Though, I'll probably buy an Intel made MicroATX G965 board because I've been wanting an Intel board since I saw their failure analysis lab and dealt with some of their engineers directly. What a great facility, and what a badass company.
Anyway, I'll post some benchmarks or something about some real-world video stuff on my Quad-core Opteron at some point, and when I get the quad-core Intel system built, I'll post some benchmarks on that, too. It will be interesting to compare the two
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