Video Encoding

[-=PESTILENCE=-]

I have a friend who is looking to do some heavy duty video encoding and streaming on his PC. What vid card do you think would help him the most in this task?

 

[Big D.]

Well seeing as the encoding will be provessed by the CPU, his video card really wouldn't help him. I don't know of any video editing software which uses the video card to encode. NVIDIA has a buggy 3D renderer for some applications that's supposed to use the video card, but that's as far as anyone's gone I think.

Get a fast CPU.

 

[Zerikin Loukbel]

For video encoding you would want to be looking at a quad core CPU as the CPU does encoding not the GPU.

 

[-=PESTILENCE=-]

Yea, we're gonna set him up with a quad core. Sorry about the vid card question, I just realized the vid card is for decoding, not encoding. <--- n00b, haha.

Thanks guys.