Thanks for the great details on your setup and the graph. I would be really surprised if that CPU was capable of transcoding at playback speeds except at very low bit rates. To make things as fast as possible with your current setup, in addition to assigning the Ubuntu VM both CPUs, I would also make sure that all other VMs are powered off during transcoding. The 8G servers such as the 2800 did not support hardware virtualization, so if two virtual CPUs is still not fast enough, then you may want to consider doing a bare-metal OS install, or even just test transcoding while booted into a live CD. ESX 3.5 did not support PCI passthrough so you would not be able to offload processing to a GPU even if one were installed, unless the it was a bare-metal installation. Your best bet in this situation might be to transcode your media prior to streaming, unfortunately. Let us know if you try anything out and what the result is. Thanks for choosing Dell!
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