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Old 16th January 2020, 00:29   #18241  |  Link
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Like i said encoderserver.exe needs only avisynth.
Booting from pxe seems to be very complicated. Personally i would use some cheap pendrives as boot drive. Wintousb should be able to create so called windows-to-go.

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Old 16th January 2020, 00:43   #18242  |  Link
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I got my hands on a bunch of cheap third and fourth gen i7's, and wanted to set them up as a small render farm.
I've got the distributed encoding working fine.
They all have 16gigs and above of memory.
But they came without bootdrives, and I want to avoid buying a bunch of basically useless drives, however cheap they maybe.
Has anyone ever tried creating a bespoke pxe image, something like a thin client just for ripbot?
Just RipBot264, Java 32bit, AVisynth, ffdshow, haali media splitter and .Net Framework, plus however slim you get Windows.
Sounds like a plan...but...

I have a small render farm (6 dual cpu systems), and I have used small SSD drives, so each unit has an individual Windows OS installed.

With my VERY limited understanding of PXE booting, don't you require a dedicated "client" to host the PXE Windows image ??

As I use different clients for different jobs & day's, I doubt this would work, as there would be multiple IP's floating around, so for me, I doubt this would work.

And if Atak says it's very complicated, then it must be !!!!
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Old 16th January 2020, 00:49   #18243  |  Link
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You need one "server" to host the image, of course.
That would be the machine the EncodingClient runs on I'd think.
It makes only really sense if you want a very centralized approach, with one Master and many slaves.
As long as your DHCP works properly the IP thing should not be a problem.
There a very small free Tools that do both the tftp-server and the bootloader.
If someone creates a Tutorial on how to implement a working smb share, avisynth and encodingserver.exe into a working pe image, for implementing it yourself would be a peach.

I knew nothing about pxe, and it took me 15min to find the right sources and get into a Windows10Pe.
I'm to stupid to integrate my own software into the image though and I'm not very good with the commandline myself.

Atak does stuff with creating custom image's, his signature reminds us with every post, so I thought that might be worth looking into.
Maybe even have it build into RipBot for version 2.0 or something

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Old 16th January 2020, 02:46   #18244  |  Link
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No codec packs! Zero! Null!
So I tried that file on another pc, and it worked fine...and I'm running W10 with an AMD RX 480.

The pc it still doesn't want to work on has a GTX 1080, with the very latest drivers...and in fact, now MPC-HC won't play ANYTHING on that pc..
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Old 16th January 2020, 02:53   #18245  |  Link
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For some reason, RipBot (1.25) is having problem with this file:
https://www9.zippyshare.com/v/f4hZV4Ym/file.html
I thought I'd grab this sample as we are both having some issues with MPC-HC.

It does play with MPC on my laptop, but is very choppy.

But playing it with VLC, was perfect.

I wonder if Atak could give us some options to what player the preview uses !?!?!?
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Old 16th January 2020, 05:11   #18246  |  Link
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When my 2 encodes finished and I removed the completed jobs, I ran into the same problem trying to either close or show the icon from the tray.

If anyone has any ideas about this application hang on Windows Server 2019, please let me know. Thanks.

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What's interesting is that in my examples below, those issues occurred if I started Ripbot264, but didn't start any encodes. Once I have an encode in the jobs list, I can minimize and restore Ripbot264 without a problem.

Once my encodes finish, I will see what happens once I remove the completed jobs.
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I thought I'd grab this sample as we are both having some issues with MPC-HC.

It does play with MPC on my laptop, but is very choppy.

But playing it with VLC, was perfect.

I wonder if Atak could give us some options to what player the preview uses !?!?!?
Have you tried resetting your MPC settings to default?
Only issue I've had with MPC is on some computers the AVISynth preview will show an image and some won't but they'll both show an error if there is one, although on some I have to change the playback position (seek bar) to see the error.
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Old 17th January 2020, 01:15   #18248  |  Link
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When my 2 encodes finished and I removed the completed jobs, I ran into the same problem trying to either close or show the icon from the tray.

If anyone has any ideas about this application hang on Windows Server 2019, please let me know. Thanks.
Hey screaming, I do have a couple of Windows Server 2019 systems, and tbh, I haven't noticed this behaviour...
but next time I'm using RB on WS2K19, I will check it out.

edit:- I have noticed this behaviour in W10, depending on how you shut RB down, to how the taskbar icons co operate (sometimes) they just like to sit there, and you can't do too much with them.
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Have you tried resetting your MPC settings to default?
Only issue I've had with MPC is on some computers the AVISynth preview will show an image and some won't but they'll both show an error if there is one, although on some I have to change the playback position (seek bar) to see the error.
No, actually I haven't, but I will, thanks.

It's just a little odd that it works on AMD cards, but not on my best nVidia.....I don't "fiddle" with the settings, either.

There must be another issue

So I will report back, after reset.

edit:- well a reset fixed the problem, but I'm not sure what caused it, in the first place.

But I'm still having some issues with it, using Preview...it either doesn't want to play the clip, or it takes a LONG time to open it.
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Old 17th January 2020, 16:51   #18250  |  Link
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No, actually I haven't, but I will, thanks.

It's just a little odd that it works on AMD cards, but not on my best nVidia.....I don't "fiddle" with the settings, either.

There must be another issue

So I will report back, after reset.

edit:- well a reset fixed the problem, but I'm not sure what caused it, in the first place.

But I'm still having some issues with it, using Preview...it either doesn't want to play the clip, or it takes a LONG time to open it.
Honestly, the reset idea was a long shot because it has helped me at times but others it hasn't.

As for the preview issues, I've never really been able to figure those out myself. On some of my machines it works fine and others I really can only use it as an AVISynth error test. I use AVSPmod to test scripts and actually see the output on a lot of machines now:
https://github.com/gispos/AvsPmod/releases
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Old 18th January 2020, 10:42   #18251  |  Link
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Welcome to v1.25.1 for 2020

Hey guys, a nice new autoupdate...

Atak has been busy...there's a new Core, ES, EC versions, lsmash, x265, mpc, scripts, etc.

And apparently, NO Java, from now on

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Hey guys, a nice new autoupdate...

Atak has been busy...there's a new Core, ES, EC versions, lsmash, x265, mpc, scripts, etc.

And apparently, NO Java, from now on

Awesome

Thanks much


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Since switching to only LSmash the good news is that the unicode naming thingy issue doesn't stop you from adding a job and encoding it, but the bad news (and it is a small thing) is the name changes:
"test ¡;#¦_“’` test.mkv" > "test í;#ª_ôÆ` test.mkv"

Question about the update, what is the number represent in the Encoding Client underneath each server in the black box with white text?

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Since switching to only LSmash the good news is that the unicode naming thingy issue doesn't stop you from adding a job and encoding it, but the bad news (and it is a small thing) is the name changes:
"test ¡;#¦_“’` test.mkv" > "test í;#ª_ôÆ` test.mkv"

Question about the update, what is the number represent in the Encoding Client underneath each server in the black box with white text?
Hey byteshare, in reference to your question, I asked that a long time ago, and here's the answer.... 2) post #18045

https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...61#post1893261
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The update in 1.25.1 to MPC fixed the preview for me on the machines I've tried. I haven't seen the video image in so long
Thank you!
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What is the best method to convert 444 video to something usable for KNLMCL A?
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x265 [error]: main10 profile not compatible with i444 input chroma subsampling.
Any suggestions? I ran into this again. Last time my "solution" was to encode it first at CRF1 in Handbrake:
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x265 [error]: main10 profile not compatible with i422 input chroma subsampling.
I can't seem to convert/change the output for HEVC via AviSynth correctly.
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Just add video=ConvertToYUV420(video)
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Just add video=ConvertToYUV420(video)
That worked. I must have done something wrong last time I tried that...I tend to do these things late at night
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The update in 1.25.1 to MPC fixed the preview for me on the machines I've tried. I haven't seen the video image in so long
Thank you!
Maybe you missed this manual fix
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In mpc-hc enable that option


I made a mistake and I forgot to leave that one option enabled.
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I'm very sorry if this has been asked before:
I couldn't help but notice that the UI has become a lot better over the last couple versions, but I'm not always sure what it means:
Especially the "Encoding Client" gives out a lot more informations now, about the state of the server.
Is there anywhere a longer readme or a explanation what all the blinking red, green, blue, yellow lights mean?
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