RipBot264 v1.18.3 - Simple and easy to use GUI -> IPOD . PSP . CONSOLES . BLURAY

[Atak_Snajpera]

Originally Posted by tkwou

Now that I know that Encoding Server requires ServerCommands to get the proper operating settings, I noticed that if you just start Encoding Server on it's own which I usually do with the server farm, it doesn't use the settings in Ripbot264.ini. It uses the original default settings with prefetch, x264 and x265 set to half of the maximum number of threads. The other thing I noticed is that the ServerCommands need to be edited in Ripbot264.ini rather than in the Settings panel within the Ripbot program. If you make the changes within the program, the prefetch variable keeps resetting to zero when you save the new settings. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not because the other variables that I changed or added stayed.

It's probably not the way Atak designed Encoding Server to be used, ie as a standalone, but I have always just been loading Encoding Server at startup on all the computers in the server farm and then putting them to sleep until they are needed. There really wasn't any reason for Ripbot264 to be running on these computers. I guess now I will need to start Ripbot264 on all these machines to ensure that the Encoding Server gets loaded with the correct settings.

EncodingServer.exe is a standalone program and does not read anything from ripbot264.ini.

If you want to reduce/increase number of threads on slave pc then you must run EncodingServer.exe with extra switches via for example .bat/.cmd file.

EncodingServer.exe by default sets number of x264/x265/avisynth threads to number of detected physical CPU cores.

ServerCommands entries in ripbot264.ini are only used if you tell ripbot264.exe to also automatically activate encoding servers.

[TDS]

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Originally Posted by Atak_Snajpera

ServerCommands entries in ripbot264.ini are only used if you tell ripbot264.exe to also automatically activate encoding servers.

Yes, and that's exactly what needs to be done, to "fine tune" & optimize the process. !!!

[tkwou]

Originally Posted by Atak_Snajpera

EncodingServer.exe is a standalone program and does not read anything from ripbot264.ini.

If you want to reduce/increase number of threads on slave pc then you must run EncodingServer.exe with extra switches via for example .bat/.cmd file.

EncodingServer.exe by default sets number of x264/x265/avisynth threads to number of detected physical CPU cores.

ServerCommands entries in ripbot264.ini are only used if you tell ripbot264.exe to also automatically activate encoding servers.

Thanks Atak. Is there a list of switches available for encodingserver.exe?

[TDS]

Originally Posted by tkwou

Thanks Atak. Is there a list of switches available for encodingserver.exe?

Yes there is :-

In "Settings", then go to "Distributed Encoding" tab, at the bottom of that page, click on the "spanner" icon, then "command line help".

The list will appear.