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#18 Network Encoding

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2003-07-17
2003-04-06
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Hello,
i need the feature to encoding better and faster at the
local
network. So i can encoding a movie in 10 minutes
;)
Can you programm the feature?????

MGD

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  • Bryan Kam

    Bryan Kam - 2003-04-06

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    If you're talking about encoding a full-length film, 10 minutes
    will never happen. Are you talking about encoding the movie
    using one computer's processor and placing the avi on
    another computer over the network? Your question doesn't
    make a whole lot of sense.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Sorry for my bad English however I is stop German. Well in any case I
    mean which one a film on several PCS at the same time encoding. Thus
    each film makes only a certain part a film, whom one has thus enough PC
    can one a film inerhalb only fewer minutes encoding.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Sorry for my bad English however I is stop German. Well in any case I
    mean which one a film on several PCS at the same time encoding. Thus
    each film makes only a certain part a film, whom one has thus enough PC
    can one a film inerhalb only fewer minutes encoding.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I think he means that he'd like gordian knot to use distributed
    networking to encode movies. Kind of like how Seti@Home
    works, multiple computers can work on different parts of the
    data at once. It would make the work itself faster, in theory,
    but i'm not sure how practical it really is.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I don't think this is exactly what he wants, but is what I want
    and I think will clear up all the views a bit.

    I believe he wants the ability to split a job into pieces and
    have each computer on a LAN do one of those pieces. With
    enough computers a 10-minute encode would be possible,
    but you'd need a good file server and fast LAN.

    What I want to do is related to another feature request - if you
    could save your enqued jobs, then theoretically you could
    have other computers on the LAN open those jobs and run
    them. The next step is to have a GKnot "front-end" that has
    a nice GUI, and creates jobs to run, and saves them in some
    type of shared network location. Then you have a
    GKnot "back-end" - some type of service that scans a
    location for jobs to process and does them. You could have
    10 machines on your LAN looking in one place for jobs and
    they would share the load. I'm thinking just 1 job per movie
    still though.

    Of course, you could extend the second one if the front-end
    part could split a movie into multiple jobs and then you'd have
    the original request solved. You'd have to get the audio and
    credits (if you encode the credits separate) done so you
    know the final bitrate, then you could split the main movie
    into X parts, and have each machine take one part and
    encode it at the final bitrate. The VBR-spread wouldn't be as
    good as a single-part encode as the separate parts of movie
    would not share file-space (eg. one comp on the LAN might
    have a part that is all low-bitrate while another comp gets a
    high-rate part, both comps would average the final bitrate),
    but with the movie split over a bunch of computers a
    complete encode could go quite fast. If I put the back-end on
    a lab-ful of comps at school I could do an entire movie this
    way in under 10 minutes (based on a movie taking 4 hours to
    encode on my machine, divided by 30 comps in a lab).

    Big downside - your file server on the LAN has to hold the
    VOB's, and so it's HD will be going nuts reading them all,
    and the NIC will be going nuts sending all that info all over the
    LAN. A decent HD and 100MB LAN should handle 4 or 5
    average workstations encoding, but if you want 30 stations
    doing a 10-minute encode you are going to need a large
    SCSI RAID disk and a gigabit NIC in that file server.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Can you programm this feature in gardian knot???

     
  • Paul 'Spawn' Rysevets

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    Well I think, this is not possible. Because I think he wants to
    Get something like in 3DStudioMAX, where each picture gets
    renderred on a separete PC in The Net, where The Client Part
    is Installed.
    I think This Feature can not be realised in GKnot, because it
    needs Codec and Encoding Programm Support. Anyway, if you
    want to make a movie encoded, you must make the first
    Pass(in DivX), and only then the other Passes.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I went not encode in the net, i want encode in at my home in the netwerk.

     
  • Michael

    Michael - 2003-04-14

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    Your not limited by drive Speed, it's all CPU.

     
  • Michael

    Michael - 2003-04-14

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    ahh My bad, I see what your meaning..

    if you could do it automated some how(like nominate
    machines to send vobs too..) then it would be a interesting
    idea..

    for example have (in the example of a movie with 5 vobs)
    5 "slave" machines linked through a port(any will do) ready to
    accept jobs, all you need to really do is send the jobs with
    the users preferred setting to each PC and make sure it's
    programmed to returned the fragmented results, and as such
    the backend can then simply remux the fragments with audio
    and you'd be rolling.

    This is extremly flexable as vobs can be broken up to any
    size buy DVD Decrypter and as such. you could have
    practically unlimited PC's working on it's own little fragment.

    Nice Idea...but too much work?

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Why not use the existing feature in Virtual Dub Mod ?
    You just have to do a network share on a common space for
    the VOBs and the resulting file, and have the same filters
    (Avisynth + Codecs) installed on each computer.

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Well, I've noticed that too, but too late :)
    I think this is simple, but wolud be made in the next version :(
    Because Author Said, that after alpha13 there will be no
    Additions, only bug fixes......
    and Client-Server Programming is not a 5 minute Job...

     
  • Paul 'Spawn' Rysevets

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    Well, I've noticed that too, but too late :)
    I think this is simple, but wolud be made in the next version :(
    Because Author Said, that after alpha13 there will be no
    Additions, only bug fixes......
    and Client-Server Programming is not a 5 minute Job...

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    but you can programm this feature in the next time,true?

     
  • Paul 'Spawn' Rysevets

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    I -can,.... But I'm not author :)

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Send please the authore a message!! :)
    or can you give me the mail
    adresse....

    cu
    MGD

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    Vidomi has a feature like this. Unfortunately, development
    of that program seems to have stopped

     
  • Tony Lenox

    Tony Lenox - 2003-07-17
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