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24th April 2004, 15:53 | #42 | Link |
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ECL errors
No luck getting this going yet.
Keep getting the following error in CCE: i:\dvd-rip\d2vavs\farm_chunk0001.ecl is not a ECL for Cinema Craft Encoder SP Is this possibly caused by the .ecl extension being lower case? These are my rbfarm paths: -------------------------- i:\dvd-rip\d2vavs\ d:\program files\dvd-rip\eclcce\eclcce.exe The contents of my eclcce.ini file: ----------------------------------- [EclCCE] CCE=D:\Program Files\Custom Technology\Cinema Craft Encoder SP\cctsp.exe The contents of farm_chunk0001.ecl ---------------------------------- [item] title=V01000000001001 aud_out=0 vaf_file=I:\DVD-RIP\D2VAVS\V01000000001001.vaf aud_file=I:\DVD-RIP\D2VAVS\V01000000001001.mpa file_focused=0 packet_size=2048 width=720 height=576 frame_rate_idx=3 cbr_brate=6000 vbr_brate_avg=6253 vbr_brate_min=0 vbr_brate_max=9000 seq_endcode=0 dvd=1 half_width=0 half_height=0 lum_level=0 aspect_ratio=3 gop_m=3 gop_nm=4 gop_hdr=12 seq_hdr=1 all_closed_gop=0 fix_gop_length=0 samples_per_sec=44100 stereo=2 brate_idx=7 crc=1 progressive=0 alternate_scan=1 intra_dc_prec=2 encode_mode=0 vmode=2 fast_mode=0 quality_prec=24 vid_file0=I:\DVD-RIP\D2VAVS\V01000000001001.m2v vid_file1=I:\DVD-RIP\D2VAVS\V01000000001001.m2v vid_out=1 vaf_out=1 video_type=4 timecode=0x0000000 opv_q_factor=20 opv_brate_min=0 opv_brate_max=9000 vbr_bias=25 vbr_pass=4 use_filter=0 filter_val=6 non_linear=1 top_first=0 mpeg1=0 mpeg1_cps=1 [file] name=I:\DVD-RIP\D2VAVS\V01000000001001.avs frame_first=0 frame_last=12562 encode_first=0 encode_last=12562 Hope someone can help. Am very excited about this program. regards b1m1 |
24th April 2004, 16:00 | #43 | Link | |
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But theoretically you can calculate that the max bandwidth of a DVD is 1mbit, and lets say the returning encoded video is 0.4mbit (4000kbit). So on a PC that does 2X in CCE you suck out 2mbit and return 0.8mbit, and add some room for overhead bandwidth you can say its 3mbit per PC. A 100mbit network can, in reality, do about 50mbit per direction on low cost adapters. That leaves room for 16 PC's of 2X caliber. Today I'm testing how much encoding on the serving PC hurts the network performance. As CCE seems to run like a High Priority program (everything else stands still for seconds) eventhough it is in normal priority. |
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24th April 2004, 16:07 | #44 | Link |
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I believe this happens when you run the prepare phase of DVD RB with something other than options->cce options->cce sp (2.66+) For instance if you have cce basic selected you'll get this error. You should also get this error if you try to drag and drop rebuilder.ecl into CCE. Also make sure you have the latest eclcce. |
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I used an XP2100+ PC with WinXP and 1GB of DDR333 RAM, and two physical 7200rpm drives to serve the source and d2vavs. Then an AMD64 3200+ to encode off that PC. When the server is not encoding the AMD64 encodes at 100% CPU usage, but when the server is also encoding the AMD64 usage graph fluctuates from the low 40% to around 90% constantly. This leads me to think it would be best to serve on the slowest (400-900mhz) PC on the network with a decent HD, or if available, dedicate a faster PC just for serving. Dedicated serving can get the final edge out of RBFarm. quantum: is there a low priority switch for CCE or ECLCCE? That might help the serving PC keep up with the underlying tasks. |
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RB Farm and CCE 2.50
Hi Quantum,
Thanks for such a quick reply. Yes I am using CCE 2.50 and have set Rebuilder to use it using ECLCCE 1.8b. This combination works fine for rebuilder. I am confused. Are you saying that I cannot use this version with RBfarm? My understanding was that the whole purpose of the ECLCCE was to make versions such as 2.50 work with ECL files, otherwise there would be no need to specify the ECLCCE path and we would be running CCE directly with each farm.ecl file. Are you able to clarify that for me? Thanks again. Regards b1m1. |
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help->about->eclcce tab CCE Process Priority->idle You can also change it manually in the eclcce.ini file. |
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Well that seems to do it. The server is still doing 100% and the AMD64 is doing 100% as before. Now the 3-8% of CPU usage the server had from the others using its resources gets done FIRST and not last. This might be a semi-important note for optimizing your RBFarm people |
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I updated the link on page 1 to version 1.1. This should allow CCE SP 2.50 to work with RB Farm. The way I was parsing the rebuilder.ecl file worked with CCE 2.66+ but not with 2.50. It should work with both versions now.
I still don't think it will work with CCE Basic, but I don't know for sure. Last edited by quantum; 24th April 2004 at 17:23. |
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For some reason this seems like it's moving insanely fast for my encodes.
I've got a 3 pass CCE job going, but the process to encode doesn't seem like it's doing anything. It just does the first pass extremely fast, then the second, then third. I did the prepare process on one PC, and have that drive mapped to Z: RB's paths are the folllowing: The source is Z:\JurassicPark The Destination is ZVDWRKDIR For DVD RB Farm: On PC ONE D2VAVS Path: ZVDWRKDIR\D2VAVS ECLCCE path: C:\Program Files\ECLCCE\eclcce.exe On PC TWO D2VAVS Path: ZVDWRKDIR\D2VAVS ECLCCE path: C:\Program Files\ECLCCE\eclcce.exe Is there anything else I'm missing?
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edit: and make sure you have latest avisynth installed and the mpeg2decdg.dll copied to its plugins dir (or the same dir specified insider dvd-rb if you used it). Last edited by Joergen; 24th April 2004 at 23:22. |
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RB Farm troubleshooting 101:
- Ensure you can encode correctly with DVD Rebuilder on the main PC. - Ensure you can encode correctly with RB Farm on the main PC. - Start, then abort an encode using DVB Rebuilder on the main PC. On secondary PCs, ensure you can open item.ecl and encode using eclcce. If you can do these things, you should have no problems. |
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CCE 2.50 issues
Hi Quantum,
I am just about to download 1.1 and give that a try. What I did find this morning is that if I try to load a farm.ecl file manually using CCE started with ECLCCE then I would get the same error as described previously. However if I modified the farm.ecl file by putting the comments (; from REBUILDER.ECL at the top of file then it would load without error. Regards b1m1 |
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Can psexec.exe (or simular) be used in future version of RB farm? So you can start and control remote process remotely from one PC running RB farm app. az |
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