rbfarm feature request

[jarthel]

is it possible to add "shutdown PC after queue is finished" feature?

thank you :)

[jptheripper]

sorry to say but i am pretty sure farm development is dead

[int 21h]

I had some ideas for a program of this sort, but I wanted to get some more features in DVD-RB to support a more tightly integrated distributed encoder (via the plugin system). This would allow you to do more of a client/server program that relied less on the exact same configuration on all of the encoding nodes.

Some of the ideas I had:

Auto-discovery of client nodes via UDP broadcast
No need for Windows Share configuration on client nodes, mapping would be dynamically handled inside the client itself
Transparent encoding process on the nodes, that is, encoding would take place in the background at a configurable thread priority
Lives in the systray with a tooltip status on clientside


I guess the idea of the server itself would be to wait until DVD-RB hits the encoding stage, and then when it does, fire up the distributed server, the server then handles the management of segment encoding, etc, then when the server has determined all segments are complete, it initiates the rebuild step in DVD-RB and kills itself. It seems pretty simple in theory, and I started messing around with some trivial broadcast ideas in code, but I wasn't going to go much further without some way to automate the entire process instead of the hacky way the farm programs have to do things now.