2023-07-24, 01:39 PM
So I'm looking at perhaps creating a little cluster of Mini PCs for transcoding. You can nowadays pick up some pretty cheap but very capable hardware. Obviously at the moment the N305/N100 is the current king. But I'm wondering, how far back and how far down the stack can you go and still get value from QuickSync.
I'm assuming you'd likely want 4k & at least HEVC & VP9 (regular, not 10/12 bit). A few of the CPUs I've spotted in cheap mini-PCs have been:
Obviously, price is a concern, but I'm wondering if this type of distributed approach has been attempted, I'd assume ProxMox is the way to go about this? Also, what are the QuickSync capabilities of those CPUs if you know?
I'm assuming you'd likely want 4k & at least HEVC & VP9 (regular, not 10/12 bit). A few of the CPUs I've spotted in cheap mini-PCs have been:
- N3350
- Z8350
- J4105
- N4020
- N5105
- N605
- N95
- N100
- N305
Obviously, price is a concern, but I'm wondering if this type of distributed approach has been attempted, I'd assume ProxMox is the way to go about this? Also, what are the QuickSync capabilities of those CPUs if you know?