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Yup, it's time for yet another recommend-me-a-build dealie. This time, the computer would be used for recording television shows in massive-huge-ultra-quality-format, then reencoding into a smaller format, serving it out across the Atlantic, then another reencode.
I've got a Japanese friend who wants to watch some of the shows on TV here (Don't ask me why), and wants me to subtitle them in Japanese for him. The only translator I know is in Japan (Different part of Japan, though). I've done some reencoding work before (Used to fansub anime), but never stored the stuff on my own machine. Oh, and this man's a quality freak.
So, this box'll last me a year or two, and has to store that much stuff. I'm guessing two or three terabytes worth of storage - Uncompressed video is insanely huge. It has to have enough power to not piss me off while encoding. And it has to have a high-quality capture card - Something that can record TV without a loss in quality. It'll be used for basic web browsing and IRC when it's not encoding, and maybe even while it's encoding - There shouldn't be too much of a strain on the video card, so a server-level board would work, I think.
I'd like to keep it cheap. Really cheap. Honestly, I'd love it if someone told me that the video-in on my 7800GTX is nice enough quality, and that I should just grab a controller card and some SATA disks.
I really don't know what the bottleneck would be on this kind of system - But I'm guessing it would be the capture card - Which is something I know very little about (I've used em before, but never made a purchasing decision)...
I've got a Japanese friend who wants to watch some of the shows on TV here (Don't ask me why), and wants me to subtitle them in Japanese for him. The only translator I know is in Japan (Different part of Japan, though). I've done some reencoding work before (Used to fansub anime), but never stored the stuff on my own machine. Oh, and this man's a quality freak.
So, this box'll last me a year or two, and has to store that much stuff. I'm guessing two or three terabytes worth of storage - Uncompressed video is insanely huge. It has to have enough power to not piss me off while encoding. And it has to have a high-quality capture card - Something that can record TV without a loss in quality. It'll be used for basic web browsing and IRC when it's not encoding, and maybe even while it's encoding - There shouldn't be too much of a strain on the video card, so a server-level board would work, I think.
I'd like to keep it cheap. Really cheap. Honestly, I'd love it if someone told me that the video-in on my 7800GTX is nice enough quality, and that I should just grab a controller card and some SATA disks.
I really don't know what the bottleneck would be on this kind of system - But I'm guessing it would be the capture card - Which is something I know very little about (I've used em before, but never made a purchasing decision)...
No way I was going to try and send 500MB files overseas with dialup!