Transcoding anything >720p is painful.

I run ancient hardware for desktop/laptop >10yrs old apple stuff running linux. I consume media mainly via rpi4 or android.

What’s a minimum level system capable of trans-coding 4k video to x265 in at the very least real time? Is there a tiny trans-coding device out there somewhere?

Would a NUC do? How old or new to churn out 4k x265

Can I avoid hardware? Are cloud gpu’s a thing?

  • RxBrad@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.

    Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that is true, I had mixed results on the quality of the video using the 7th gen ones so I usually recommend at least 8th gen but that may have improved by now.