[mythtv-users] Intel CPU comparison for encoding

[Kevin J. Cummings]

David Fishburn wrote:
> This may be useful for some of the Intel users out there.  This
> article compared all the Intel CPUs for various tasks and monitored
> the performance.
> 
> x264 Benchmark
> 
> The x264 Benchmark is the work of graysky here at Tech ARP. It
> basically measures how fast the processor can encode a short
> DVD-quality MPEG-2 video clip into a high-quality x264 video clip.
> This is a two-pass encoding process and hence, the results will show
> the encoding speed (in frames per second) for each pass.
> 
> http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=499&pgno=5
> 
> Some are better at encoding then others, so you might save some money
> by choosing the right one for a MythTV system.

Hmmm, only seems to cover the so-called "desktop" CPUs and not the 
"laptop" CPUs.  My T7200 Core 2 Duo is not listed....  It would be nice 
to see where my laptop CPU fits in the the overall scheme of things....

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