Encoding using ffmpeg will only use your CPU, except you have special software for GPU encode. I would suggest you stick with Xeon if you have tight budget. More cores = more power. In the past we have tried both i7 and Xeon and we got pretty the same result of an i7-950 and Dual L5420 or Dual L5520.
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