Belgabor
12th January 2003, 00:40
Unfortunately I dun have experiences with the net mod yet, but I will try to answer anyways.
Originally posted by curna
Can somebody explain this a little bit more deeply ??
I was trying to encode to Divx using two computers in a LAN, and I have some questions/problems:
1- Must the filters/codecs be installed in both computers ?? For example, if I use some plugins for avisynth, where do I put them.
For instance I can write the avs file in one computer, but how does the other one know where to find those plugins ??
You have to install everything on both pcs so they could encode the files themselves. The only data transferred is something like a jobs file describing what the slave has to do.
Originally posted by curna
2- I've tried once the process, but the Slave machine didn't find the avs file. I guess that it is related to the path, but I don't know exactly how to solve it. Where do I have to change the path ?? In the script, when I load the plugins, do I have to change the path also ?? How do I exactly build those paths ??
If you use avisynth you have to set all paths in a way that VDubMod and AviSynth can find thier stuff on all machines you use. One possible solution is putting everything on a public share and using the net path (eg "\\MyServer\videostuff"). Another possibility is copy everything to the same path on each machine (eg "c:\"). What could be possible is having a diffrent avs file on each machine (but sitting on the same path, like "c:\" for example) that points to the file locations on that specific machine.
Originally posted by curna
3- For 2-pass encoding, I've read it will not work. Is it sure ?? If I do the first pass and, when it is finished, I begin the second pass, would it work ??
The problem for two pass encoding is that the codecs is the splitting of the respective stats (or log for div4/5) file that would be necessary. The codec always (afaik) uses the stats data from the start of the stats file, but the slave sould lets say use the data from frame x to frame y. So what needs to be done is splitting the stats file according to the splitting of encoding segments decided by the master.
I hope this cleared things up a bit (and I didnt tell crap ;))
Belgabor
Originally posted by curna
Can somebody explain this a little bit more deeply ??
I was trying to encode to Divx using two computers in a LAN, and I have some questions/problems:
1- Must the filters/codecs be installed in both computers ?? For example, if I use some plugins for avisynth, where do I put them.
For instance I can write the avs file in one computer, but how does the other one know where to find those plugins ??
You have to install everything on both pcs so they could encode the files themselves. The only data transferred is something like a jobs file describing what the slave has to do.
Originally posted by curna
2- I've tried once the process, but the Slave machine didn't find the avs file. I guess that it is related to the path, but I don't know exactly how to solve it. Where do I have to change the path ?? In the script, when I load the plugins, do I have to change the path also ?? How do I exactly build those paths ??
If you use avisynth you have to set all paths in a way that VDubMod and AviSynth can find thier stuff on all machines you use. One possible solution is putting everything on a public share and using the net path (eg "\\MyServer\videostuff"). Another possibility is copy everything to the same path on each machine (eg "c:\"). What could be possible is having a diffrent avs file on each machine (but sitting on the same path, like "c:\" for example) that points to the file locations on that specific machine.
Originally posted by curna
3- For 2-pass encoding, I've read it will not work. Is it sure ?? If I do the first pass and, when it is finished, I begin the second pass, would it work ??
The problem for two pass encoding is that the codecs is the splitting of the respective stats (or log for div4/5) file that would be necessary. The codec always (afaik) uses the stats data from the start of the stats file, but the slave sould lets say use the data from frame x to frame y. So what needs to be done is splitting the stats file according to the splitting of encoding segments decided by the master.
I hope this cleared things up a bit (and I didnt tell crap ;))
Belgabor