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Re:$89 Exynos4412 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core 2GB by rorrr on Friday December 28, 2012 @06:07PM (#4980078)
Even cheap modern SSDs can handle 400-500 MB/sec reads. You can consume 500 MB chunks of video into RAM and eliminate I/O bottleneck completely.

Video encoding is CPU-bound, not I/O bound.

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