Distributed computing, frameserving question

[TomT64]

Is there a way to distribute the encoding of an MPEG across multiple PCs using either frameserving or some other method? I want to use TMPGEnc if at all posible. If not I want to use trialware or freeware tools.

[Tommyknocker]

I cannot get the gist of your question. Will all the computers share the same file, or will they share the same encoding task. Please clarify.

[housepig]

(correct me if I'm wrong) he's talking about using multiple linked machines as a processor boost, like what 3D apps do in "render farms" - coordinate a network of computers to do the encoding on a single media file.

the problem would be finding a program with support for running across a network or cluster of that nature. I know that Cinelerra will do it under Linux, but I'm not sure if that includes an mpeg-2 encoder.

[TomT64]

Housepig is correct, that is what I want.

I only have linux on one computer. The others are reserved (i.e. not mine to install OSes on) so they run Windows. But I have the go ahead to use all the processors for a single encoding task if I want.