Hardware for RealProducer

Hi there, we're rebuilding our RealProducer encoder and I wanted to know about the best hardware we could use. So, what about the new dual-core processors? Are there any advantages in speed for Producer? And what about buying a quad opteron compared to a dual xeon or related hardware? Both livestreaming and file encoding. Thank you!

IIRC RealVideo can use up to 4 CPUs. So best get fast ram, 2 or more CPUs with SSE/SSE2/SSE3.

Yes, it used to be only 2 threads per stream, but I recently added the capability of using 4 threads per stream. A dual CPU, dual core system is ideal :) If you use SureStream, the encoder also has the capability to encode one stream per processor.

You can always download the latest Helix Producer from helixcommunity.org in the binary download section (see RealVideo info thread), and replace erv4.dll (the encoder DLL in the codecs folder) with the one from the latest Helix Producer. (Provided you have a recent RealProducer)

A dual core is just as fast as two individual processors. It is Hyper-Threading that is not quite as effective. I am afraid I do not know how the Opteron compares to P4 in terms in encoding speed, but if it has SSE2 and SSE3 it should be about the same. If not, P4 is preferred.