[TriLUG] video processing and ML on Linux

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

Take a look at my build, here <https://bronord.com/pics/pc.build/>. ~ $1k with 
room for ram growth. Just don't do what I did and get an unsupported 
motherboard. This was in July and purchases were from Microcenter. Too bad 
there is not one in your area. Having one close by is a definite asset if you 
need to make a return. If, by chance, you order from them, get a Microcenter 
credit card to gain a nice discount.

I compared Ryzen and Intel and get more bang for the buck w/ AMD. NVMe drives 
help a lot and are now affordable. I use it for video editing and the like. 
Very fast.

Good luck.

--
Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
     Web Site: www.bronord.com

On 11/15/20 12:30 AM, Greg Brown via TriLUG wrote:
> I need to build a machine that is more or less decided to video production
> and i have been using Linux for the back-end for this for a good while and
> would like to keep on that path.  I've been doing a lot of behind the
> scenes stuff with ffmpeg if I need to work on batches of files for some
> reason (change formats, rotate all videos "X" degrees, strip audio, etc).
>
> For actual video editing with clips of videos I've been using OpenShot
> Video Editor on Ubuntu and that seems to work pretty well.  The problem
> here is I'm up against the limits of my hardware (2012 Mac mini, 8 gigs
> ram, 1 GB SSD).  Because there is no USB-C or Thunderbolt-3 I'm out of luck
> as far as an eGPU goes and I would very much like to wring more out of any
> GPU I can get my hands on.
>
> So, I'd like to build a Linux box.  Is anyone out there working with Linux
> for video production?  if so what do you use?  Did you spec your hardware
> off whatever was the best supported hardware you could get at the time?
> What I would ideally have is a much stronger CPU with more core and more
> maximum threads, the ability to have a lot more ram (32 gigs to start but
> expandable to up 128, 256 or beyond would be nice), and a really nice GPU.
>
> If anyone has thoughts on specifications I'm all ears.  Budget is not
> unlimited by any stretch but as of right now I could safely drop $2500.00
> or so on the machine itself and more if I had to (but that might take some
> massaging).  I'd like to stick under $2500 if possible.  Cutting edge is
> not required, as much as I'd like to have two threadrippers.
>
> When not doing video production it would like be used for ML tasks
> (classification of sounds from mp3 files) or inferred direction of motion
> in videos as well as seamless stitching of photos together of many
> geotagged photos into a single, humongous photo.. things like that.
>
> Greg