[mythtv-users] Intel CPU comparison for encoding

[Jason Spears]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:28 PM, David Fishburn
<dfishburn.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  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.
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>  http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=499&pgno=5

No mention anywhere of whether SSE4 is in play, or how it affects
outcomes.  I would expect to see at least some greater disparity
between the Wolfdale and Conroe cores if the encoder were using SSE4.
Wolfdales can be a good buy in any case, but for media encoding they
should be a bigger win than this versus the older cores.