Re: video compression machine

It depends on the compression work you are doing. Drive transfer rate can be a bottleneck, a well setup encoder doing standard def work could be running at 100fps or more and could be doing multiple streams of that, so you need to do the maths.

AFX is not the best or most efficient encoder so you'll not be making the most of your system for this kind of work. And as far as I know it can't do simultaneous encodes.

You didn't mention what formats you are compressing to but you might want to look at some of the free or low cost dedicated encoders out there..

The machine will depend on your budget but, so with a high budget you'd go for a 3Ghz+ dual Quad core with a about 8GB of RAM. The Ram is important whatever processor speed you end up with.
With lower budgets work down in processor speed or the number of cores or a mixture of both.



__________________________________________________________________
Please post back saying what solved your problem. It could help others, and saying 'thanks' is free!