multi-threading: blender and ffmpeg - Re: thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-21 Thread Augustin
On Sunday 21 September 2008 22:51:10 Jochen Schulz wrote: > > The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg > > is a good news. with regard to blender, I found this article confirming that blender is multi-thread able: http://wbs.nsf.tc/articles/article8_e.html which dates to 20

Re: thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Augustin: > On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple >> threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of >> 2*3GHz. -- snip > The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg is

thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-21 Thread Augustin
On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote: > I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be > sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But beware that > there are codecs that cannot (or at least currently don't) use > multiple threads. These only use one

Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Augustin: > > Now, what really matters to me the most is that I want to do some > video editing with ffmpeg and Kdeenline and maybe some simple 3D > modelling with blender. I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But be