VSPipe over network?!

[asarian]

Is it possible to use VSPipe to parse its data over a network connection?! (So that the x264 portion of the job can be executed on another machine) Like:

VSPipe 1.vpy - --y4m | f:\x264 - --demuxer y4m...

Where f: is a networked drive. That part is likely to work: I just don't see how I could parse the command line options along with it, though.

[sneaker_ger]

That would just load x264.exe on the current machine. Both VapourSynth and x264 would work locally with the x264 output being written to the network drive. I think you would need something like netcat to do it. (Or maybe even the virtual file system? Not sure how it works.)

[asarian]

That would just load x264.exe on the current machine. Both VapourSynth and x264 would work locally with the x264 output being written to the network drive. I think you would need something like netcat to do it. (Or maybe even the virtual file system? Not sure how it works.)

Yeah, I read about netcat, but many ppl report it as containing viruses. It looks like it could do it, though.

The Virtual File system *could* potentially work (like I'd start a x24 process on the remote machine, that reads from the virtual AVI on the local machine), but when complex stuff is happening in the .vpy script (temporal seeking and such), the VSFS tends to crash when you're doing random reads from it.

Thanks for thinking with me, though. :)

[jackoneill]

Yeah, I read about netcat, but many ppl report it as containing viruses.

You could always read the source code and compile it yourself.

[asarian]

You could always read the source code and compile it yourself.

Surprisingly (for a Windows program), it actually *does* come with the C source. ;) So, yeah, I'll just do that.

[Mystery Keeper]

Surprisingly (for a Windows program), it actually *does* come with the C source. ;) So, yeah, I'll just do that.It was intended as cross-platform and open source from the very beginning.