Networkrendering?!?

[Segitz]

Hi all

i have a question... is it possible to render a movie in my home network?

Just like 3ds max 4? There i can start up a server send sends all data needed to the other pcs in the network and then all pcs connected render it! Is there any coding software available to do something like that?


No matter if its divx or mpeg2

c u soon...

[markrb]

Wrong forum. This is specific to DVD2SVCD only.
Do not cross post. This is against forum rules.
Cross posts will be deleted from now on.
Moved.

[Kedirekin]

At the moment I don't believe there are any tools that allow encoding to be divided between machines. All things considered, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting (at least, not unless networks get hugely faster - and network bandwidth will probably never catch up with processor speeds).

Rendering and encoding are slightly different animals.

Rendering is typically extremely slow, and the rendering of one frame rarely (if ever) relies on the results of the rendering of another. There are significant advantages to splitting the work among multiple machines and assembling the finished results.

Encoding is quite a bit faster, and encoding of one frame is reliant on the encoding of frames before and after it. Even the encoding of widely separated portions of a video can be dependent on each other (when intelligent variable bitrate algorythms come into play).

I'm not saying it's impossible, mind you, just a large pain in the butt and probably not worth the effort. After all, major encoding houses (the ones that would foot the bill for such inovation) can easily create a poor-man's version of the same thing by simply encoding different movies on each machine in their networks. They probably have an ample number of candidates at any given time. Incidentally, so can you - just save up your videos.

[MediaMage]

ive seen somewhere an article about an linux cluster doing that... with 32 p 166 machines or so, encoding a movie in half an hour

[Spawn]

TMPGEnc supports it, not sure if the newer version does, but I know older ones have. However if I remember correctly theres VERY little gain. I'm guessing simply cause its un-optimized.

In theory the concept is sweet though, a cluster of Athlons would do some sweet SVCD encoding.

[chainsaw135]

I dont think it would be worth the effort, you could i suppose do the audio while the video is being started, but in most machines the audio takes under 30 minutes so not worth the trouble.

[ReinerSchweinlin]

Originally posted by Spawn
TMPGEnc supports it, not sure if the newer version does, but I know older ones have. However if I remember correctly theres VERY little gain. I'm guessing simply cause its un-optimized.

In theory the concept is sweet though, a cluster of Athlons would do some sweet SVCD encoding.
I think you´re speaking of multithreading with more than one CPU. Or did I miss something?

Reiner