General encoding via RDP (remote desktop)...

[kikker]

So, if I perform a graphedit on the playback of a media file on a remote machine, different filters are used than would otherwise be used if I were at the console itself. That could spell trouble for encodes, correct? I believe RGB32 is used in addition to resize filters if the remote computer screen has a different resolution.

My question is whether operating any of the front ends for x264 on a remote machine to begin encodes while away from the machine would be a bad idea, or would the "behind-the-scenes" decoding of the source be identical to the decoding/color space used if I were sitting at the console?

[ChrisBensch]

I have 4 encoding machines available, I use all of them via RDP from my laptop downstairs. I use MeGUI and have had not a single issue so far.

[foxyshadis]

RDP is only trouble if you use DirectShowSource in your encoding, which used to be megui's default for non-DVDs. (And even then, it depends on how things are set up.) Back on avisynth 2.5.6, I always had to make a custom graph, but it might work fine now. Everything else, no difference.