Batch Frameserve? VirtualDub to TMPGEnc

[mikewg]

Let's say I have several AVI files that I want to Frameserve from VirtualDub to TMPGEnc. Can I batch frameserve the files? I know how to do one, but can I batch three or four different frameserving to happen overnight?

[RafNunes]

You can open three or four instances of VirtualDub and create one vdr file for each instance. In TMPMGEnc, you can use batch processing with those vdr files.
I hope it helps you.



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[HillJack]

Yeah, basically make a couple more VirtualDub directories under your Program Files dir (like \VirtualDub1, \VirtualDub2... etc) and run separate instances for each file you want to encode; you can't run multiple instances of the same program, from the same location each time - each has to be from a different directory.

Start frameservers on each, and batch encode with TMPGEnc.

One point (I found out the hard way) is when VirtualDub pops up after clicking "start frameserve..." and the little box entitled "frameserver setup" appears with the name CAPTURE.00.avi (or whatever your file is called), make sure EACH instance is a DIFFERENT NAME, otherwise you'll encode the same file over and over Otherwise, it works like a charm!

[mikewg]

Wow, I honestly thought I was going to hear "Sorry, you can't do that"... I'm shocked that this works and am very excited because I can capture a lot in the evening, then frameserve it all during the night. What an exciting day!

Okay, here's another question because I'm at work and can't try this out...

Let's say one video takes an hour to frameserve. If I'm doing four videos at the same time, will it take four hours? Or will it take one hour and just more processing power?

Additionally, is there a limit on the number of things I should frameserve at a time? Is four a "lot"? Or could I easily do, say, 10 files at the same time and not have problems? I'm running an AMD 900 with 256 Megs of Ram. Will getting more RAM help me frameserve more files at a time?

Oh yeah, one more thing... I understand I need VirtualDub in different folders. But can I run the same TMPGEnc program file or do I need the same number of TMPGEnc's in different folders too?

[Shabubu]

If your wanting to batch frameserve it may be worth learning avisynth, it means you don't have to open multiple vdub windows and actually works a bit faster. Your won't be able to encode all for vids at once as you can't open multiple TMPGEnc's, it'll just do one after the other. With avisynth there's no limit to how many you framserve cause it opens up each framesever when it needs it, with vdub more ram will probably help, though a vdub framserver I started just now is only using 1Mb, so it shouldn't really be a problem.

[Shabubu]

Also to batch encode in TMPGEnc, open up the video file set up the encode then save the project, do it for the rest of you vids, then file>batch encoding and add all those project files. Finally click start then in the main TMPGEnc window tick the shut down when finished encoding box. Your com will shut down when it's done, saving the environment

[mikewg]

I just wanted to say THANKS to everyone who replied to this. I captured a bunch of shows last night, spent 45 minutes editing out commercials before I went to bed... and when I woke up, I had 7 beautiful VCD MPGs. Whoo baby! Plus my computer shut itself down when it was done, so it finally got a break from being on for a few days. Thanks again everyone, I've never been so excited about capturing as I was this morning when I had all those wonderful shows waiting for me, commercial free. Now I just need to buy and play with AVI_IO and I'll be pure happiness.