Ubuntu Studio Audio and Video Processing Server

[ReaRehauge]

Hey everyone,

I am Rea (short for Rebecka) and I am totally new to this community, also I am not a native English speaker / writer, so there might be some errors in my Way of using specific words or the English language at all. I apologize for that.

 

Now let's get back to topic.
I am planning to set up a dedicated Server for live audio- and video-processing, based on the Ubuntu studio os and a Xeon E3-1260Lv5 I already have lying around. By live a-&v-processing I mean "live" like preparing it for online streaming services, as well as having it processed with low latency so I could for example rout my in game sound, from my gaming rig, through to the server with as less delay as possible and then have it played back directly from the server on my headphones. To go more in detail, my gaming rig will have installed an audio device that transfers the audio out directly to a separate Ethernet network (not the one I am connected to the internet) and send it to my a-&v-processing server, to do its thing (Audio over IP).

 

I want to do it that way, because of multiple reasons.
First, I already have separate Computers for gaming and browsing/office applications, to save power, because I am forced to spend a lot of time in front of a computer, drawing power on my personal electricity bill. The miniPC just saves so much energy compared to my gaming rig even in idle mode and this adds up significantly, considering all the hours I spend behind the screen on a daily basis.
Second, my miniPC just does not have enough power to do it and my gaming rig will be hit pretty hard when it comes to in game experience while streaming on the same machine, so neither of them is an option to do that.
Last but not least, I have the CPU already lying around, so I thought "why not? “

 

My questions are:
1. Is there anyone out there that already has experience with that kind of application?
2. What kind of Hardware would you suggest to put around the already existing Xeon E3-1260Lv5 to do that kind of workload? - I thought of something with a C232 or C236 Chipset
3. Can the Xeon even handle that kind of workload? - Audio processing of multiple channels, with software EQ and all that stuff and adding in a livestream overlay to the incoming video stream (that would be only one at any given time btw.).
4. Do you have any suggestions to solve the problem differently at similar cost?

 

Well these are my thoughts for the moment and I hope my English was not too bad. Tanks for the help.
Greetings Rea