farnum video encoding
Intel Core i7-4790K testing with a ASUS Z97-DELUXE/USB 3.1 and Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


video encoding: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS Z97-DELUXE/USB 3.1, Chipset: Intel 4th Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 250GB CT250BX100SSD1 + 4001GB Western Digital WD40EFRX-68W, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4096MB, Audio: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Network: Intel Connection + Broadcom BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-50-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.1, OpenGL: 4.3.0, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080


FFmpeg 2.6.2
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
video encoding . 8.35 |========================================================


Mencoder 1.1
AVI To LAVC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
video encoding . 17.68 |=======================================================