Is it possible to use created vaf file with Batchccews?

[Talayero]

Hello,
I've been reading the forums for a while, but I didn't find out if that's possible.

What I want is to start cce from batchccews but not creating a new vaf.
I've read that you can edit eclcce.ini, but I'm not sure if that's the key for cce to use already created vaf.

Thanks in advance.

[Trahald]

you need to load the appropriate videofilename.ecl file into cce and then make sure create new vaf is off. then run the encode (if you have multiple files you would do this individually) i dont think batchccews has a way to reuse the vaf built in.

[D3s7]

Only way I know how would be to modify the registry key that holds current job templates and change the status from 0 to 1 (if I remember correctly)

1 = first pass complete

double check that in the registry but I'm pretty sure it is
0 = new
1 = first pass
2 = finished

or it might be
-1 = new
0 = first pass
1 = complete

[Talayero]

Thanks for answering.

I see i't's not so easy to force batchccews to use a vaf that has already been created.
If there's a solution it must be in the registry key, as D3s7 said. But I tried to change a couple of things and they didn't work.

In version 0.9.1.5 beta the status of current job template is = "Pending", till all the passes are finished. It seems there's no way to modify that for batchccews to start the first pass instead of the vaf.

There's also a "create vaf=1" in every template (Robshot, Multipass etc).
I changed the value to 0 in the Robshot template, then I launched the encoding but it started to recreate the vaf.

[Talayero]

I've just found out that BBWoof says that's impossible in this version. Here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=500415#post500415) is the post.

Well, I think it would be good to implement that option in the next version. It's very useful if you want to reencode a file or also to change the bitrate for the multipasses once the vaf is created and a better calculation of the size is possible using the bit allocation button.

Of course, you can always set cce manually, but there's one more thing to take into account, at least in my case. May be it's something that only happens in my pc, because I've read nothing about it: encoding is always faster when launched from batchccews than when launched from the same cce. Weird but true. I don't know why.

[Talayero]

Just out of curiosity: No one has experienced that increase of speed using BatchCCEWS?

[D3s7]

Not sure what increase of speed you mean?

I personally don't even use BatchCCEWS anymore... I use Trahalds batchencoder (there's a sticky in this forum w/ the link to it)

[Talayero]

Well, sorry. I think I made a mistake.
In the past I’ve took notes of some tests with cce and I wrote that when I launched the avs file from BatchCCEWS, CCE got 2.20 of speed, for instance, and when launched the same avs directly from CCE the encoding speed only reached 1.70.

I made that kind of tests in several ocasions and was convinced that there was an speed advantage using BatchCCEWS.
But now, I made a test before writing this post and discovered that speed is the same using or not BatchCCEWS, what is more logical in any case.
I don’t know why I have these results in previous tests.

Anyway, thanks. I’ll have now a look at Trahalds batchencoder. I didn’t know its existence.