@MeatBall correct, the Xeon is not good at software transcoding. Considering I was running a W3565 and one stream was taking over half the capacity and was barely maintaining frame rate ( sometimes it wouldn’t), it was pretty obvious that software wasn’t going to cut it. So I threw together a Linux box, I scavenged one from my local makerspace that took the same ram and procs as the old Mac Pro. Made that a dual x5670 running Ubuntu. It was a pain to maintain for me and then I couldn’t remote into anymore. Gave up trying to fix the problem, pulled one CPU, upgraded the Mac & then did the GPU file mod. I’m pretty happy how it turned out. These old xeons make decently cheap workstations today, but without Intel QSV support they are very slow dealing with video, so putting in a video card that supports transcoding is very important. Intel Quick Sync Video is on chips that have the integrated graphics starting with Sandy Bridge. Without it, you’ll basically brute forcing it with the proc. Not optimal experience at all with that setup. Had the Linux machine stayed running for me I was hoping to toss an NViDIA card in.
