ok i'm giving this one more try . I selected x264 farm codec in megui and i see these options which r different from x264 .
I selected HQ-slowest profile , and left all other parameters at default . So wat do i do now , copy the collective command line parameters which r written in box near bottom or can i encode to x264farm using megui .
If yes , how do i set up the agents ? run megui too on them ?
Another question : I want to have only one agent . So in the config.xml file of the controller , do i have 2 agents ( 1 my pc and 2nd another pc ) or only the agent's ip address and other info .
Some more questions : Where do i put nice.exe and avs2yuv.exe ?
I tried running the controller and agent . agent is running fine , but controller exits . here r the config.xml files for both .
CONTROLLER :
<config>
<temp>C:\x264farm\controller\temp</temp> <!-- Some directory for storing temp data -->
<agents>
<agent name="Matrix"> <!-- The name of the agent. This is only informational -->
<ip>192.168.111.147</ip> <!-- IP address of the agent (127.0.0.1 is the computer the controller is running on) -->
<port from="40700" to="40703"/> <!-- A port range. This MUST be identical to the setup of the agent -->
<number>2</number> <!-- How many jobs to send to the agent at one time. Should generally be equal to the number of cores on the target machine -->
</agent>
<agent name="Agent Smith">
<ip>192.168.111.66</ip>
<port from="40700" to="40703"/>
<number pad="1">1</number>
<!--
The pad="1" attribute tells the controller how many additional jobs to send for the second pass.
It's good to set this to "1" on all non-controller computers, when there should be a backup
agent running when the others are sending back jobs.
-->
</agent>
</agents>
<adhoc controller="12345" agent="23456"/>
</config>
AGENT :
<config>
<temp>C:\x264farm\agent\temp</temp>
<!-- Usable port range. Note that only one of these ports will be used at a time. -->
<port from="40700" to="40703"/>
<!--
These options control the ad-hoc networking support. Uncomment the <adhoc> element
to enable it. <name> is the name that the agent will tell the controller, and
<number> is the number of simultaneous encodes to tell the controller (same
style as in the controller's config.xml file
-->
<!--<adhoc controller="40700" agent="40701"/>-->
<name>Local</name>
<number pad="0">2</number>
<!--
Use this to change the executable that is run. It will default to "x264"
if it is not specified here
-->
<x264>x264</x264>
<!--
If you want to set your encoding to a lower priority, set <nice> to a larger number.
0 means normal priority, 20 means idle. If you are running Windows, you need to
have the "nice" program installed, either in the directory you run the agent from,
or somewhere on the path.
Unix-ish operating systems already have this program.
-->
<nice>20</nice>
<!--
<base> is for agent-based encoding.
If it is set to "<base></base>" or "<base/>" then the AVS file is searched for
in the exact directory that the controller found it.
If it is set to a directory, that directory is taken as the base encode directory.
For example, if the controller is encoding file "D:\movies\working\somewhere\file.avs"
and you have <base>F:\temp\x264farm</base> here, then the AVS file is searched for in this order:
F:\temp\x264farm\D:\movies\working\somewhere\file.avs
F:\temp\x264farm\movies\working\somewhere\file.avs
F:\temp\x264farm\working\somewhere\file.avs
F:\temp\x264farm\somewhere\file.avs
F:\temp\x264farm\file.avs
If none of those files are found, the default controller-based encoding is used.
If <base> is not specified or if it is commented out, controller-based encoding is always used.
You may specify multiple base directories with the <bases> line. For example:
<bases>
<base>base1</base>
<base>base2</base>
<base/>
</bases>
Each of these bases is treated exactly as described above.
The first directory listed which has an identical file is used as the encoding base
NOTE: Thanks to a few quirks in the way OCaml handles Windows directories,
if you use only a drive letter you MUST have a trailing backslash;
if you use some subdirectory you MUST NOT have a trailing backslash.
For example:
<base>c:</base> *WRONG*
<base>c:\</base> *RIGHT*
<base>c:\documents and settings</base> *RIGHT*
<base>c:\documents and settings\</base> *WRONG*
You can see if a directory was accepted by the "agent bases:" line displayed
when the agent is first run.
See x264farm.html for more information
-->
<base></base>
<!--
Set <agentpipe> to 1 in order to pipe data through to x264 in agent mode.
If this is off the following basic command is executed:
x264 <options> -seek a -frames b input.avs
If this is on the command is more like this:
avs2yuv -raw -seek a -frames b -o - input.avs | x264 <options> - 720x480
Really the only reason to use this is if you have a 64-bit version of x264,
but you have a 32-bit version of avisynth. In this case, x264 is incapable of
simply linking to avisynth, and therefore needs the data fed to it by avs2yuv.
Obviously, this requires that the agent have access to avs2yuv.
-->
<agentpipe>0</agentpipe>
<!--
The <compression> section is where you can select which types of compression to
accept from the controller for controller-based encoding. These settings do nothing
when using agent-based encoding.
These are the currently supported compression types:
0: Uncompressed. This is the fallback compression type.
1: Paeth / Huffman. This tends to get 3:1 - 4:1 compression.
The first one in this list which the controller supports is used by the controller.
Every type under type 0, therefore, is disabled, since "no compression" is always supported
-->
<compression>
<type>0</type>
<type>1</type>
</compression>
<!--
<passcompression> sets different compression settings for the first and second passes.
Both the <first> and <second> sections have the same format as the above <compression>
element, but they only affect one of the two passes.
This is useful if the network is the bottleneck during the first pass,
but the encoder is the bottleneck during the second.
-->
<!--
<passcompression>
<first>
<type>1</type>
</first>
<second>
<type>0</type>
</second>
</passcompression>
-->
<adhoc controller="12345" agent="23456"/>
</config>
And the error i get is :
http://i16.tinypic.com/72ktsvs.jpg