hardware recommendations?

[criacow]

A company I contract with is in the process of designing a server specifically to run the Flix engine -- incoming videos would be processed, run through the thing, and then moved to another server for actual use.

I was wondering--is there anything specific, hardwarewise, the community recommends (aside from "as much processor speed and RAM as you can get")? Anything that particularly helps with performance for the Flix engine?

Thanks!
-cow

[Crazy Ivan]

I don't work for On2 but you may get a quicker reponse if you send your question directly to them.
http://www.on2.com/company/feedback/

I don't suppose you could tell us the name of the company that want's to license the Flix Engine?

[BizarreDC]

hi guys, did you find out any suggestions on server specs or specific hardware?

[jschaf01]

Flix engine (at least for Windows) isn't the fastest bird on the planet. We have a quad processor Xeon HP server with 8GB RAM and mirrored HD's. This allows us to transcode up to 4 videos simultaneously. Input files on D drive, output files on E drive. You definitely want a good processor(s) and plenty of memory. Had to say more without knowing your requirements. Also, if you are doing it on a server and using say Windows 2003, make sure you get a sound card.

[michael]

We're doing transcoding live using Windows 2003 and running into some issues we aren't seeing in development. You mentioned having a sound card with windows 2003... what errors did you see without having the sound card?