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?
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.
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.
Thank you.
I think I will aim for =>8
No problem! I actually am still using 8500k still since it was new for what it’s worth, those things are great no complaints.