RBFarm w/ DVD-RB Pro v1.27.3?

[KnightAR]

Is it possible to run RBFarm with DVD-RB Pro v1.27.3? (or any previous versions?)

I just want to know if anyone had any issues before I waste any time trying to get it to work.

Thanks

[RickA]

Greets,

I fondly remember using RBFarm long ago. Really liked it and was very helpfull when I had slower machines while using CCE. Kinda forgotten about it since moving to multi-core rigs and with HCenc being more SMP friendly. I may need to dust off RBFarm again to give it a try. Thanks on the reminder. Two comps, 6 cores and no waiting. :-)

If you do decide to try it. Make sure your command paths are similar and that you map your shared drives. Forget if there are any other tweaks to run RBFarm smoothly. Would need to look that up.

Cheers,
Rick

[Pulp Catalyst]

should be ok, can't see it being any probs, but just remember if you have powerful rigs, 100 base network won't cut it will cause bottlenecks, also if you have fast duel core's or quad, the server will need really fast HD's to keep up with the demand, remember the server will have to be about 35% better then the clients, or again the server will not be able to keep up with the clients,

and as a note, try to have 2 separate hard drives, 1 HD for work folder, and other HD for temp, this will reduce the demand on the IDE interface and also won't hammer the hd's so much as the strain will be shared amongst 2, rather then just 1 having to do all the reads and writes, and needless to say install latest Chipset drivers,

[ggtop]

I used rbfarm quite often but I noticed that it can't handle multiangle. First I thought it was rebuilders mistake but when I processed the title ("deja vu") with rebuilder only it worked.

[Pulp Catalyst]

ILVU's is tricky, the problem is that DVDRebuilder processes the necessary VOB's on ILVU's when the time comes, which of course is why RBFarm would not work, because RBFarm will need them before that time, so i think RBFarm will not work with ILVU's at all, 1 stream mode only, and to be honest, i don't think it would be possible any way, well, it may be possible, but would be very very tricky to come up with a solution, although RBFarm isn't actively being developed, mainly because of massive hardware changes that has occurred over the last 3 years, for many RBFarm isn't needed any longer, because encoding times are so quick just on the one machine, and the original developer of RBFarm was very busy, and did awfully well just to develop RBFarm to version 1.7, and it's side kick to version 0.02 i do believe is the latest, and designed by someone else

i think the only way to get those kind of features, if the two tools integrated, then it would deffiently be possible, but as it is (DVDRebuilder and RBFarm) being separate applications, it can't be done,



although, if BDRebuilder ever comes to light, it would not surprise me if "Farming" would become ever so needed again, because Mpeg4 AVC Encoding will deffiently require a Farm to help, even with people who has Quad cores will still want farming support because Mpeg4 AVC is a bitch to re-encode,

perhaps, "jdobbs" will make BDRebuilder Farming friendly at the very least from ground up, if it ever gets done, because no matter how good AVC codecs become, i can not imagine we will ever see the speeds mpeg 2 encoding has, because AVC is just so CPU intensive and by the time CPU's catch up, we will probably have the next generation of format upon us,