The point of frameserving?

[sigourney]

It might seem like a dumb question, but what exactly is the point of frameserving? I capture with a Matrox Marvel G400 and I've experimented with frameserving using Virtual Dub and TMPGenc mainly to see if it worked.

TMPGenc can read the MJPEG files no problem so I'm wondering what kind os circumstances require frameserving.

[musicnyman]

i use DVD2AVI frameserving because i don't want to dump the whole DVD to a fully uncompressed AVI file with sound. the .d2v file in DVD2AVI is a pointer to the .VOB DVD files and creates a seperate uncompressed WAV file used in tmpgenc for encoding. takes less space and might as well use the .VOB files or other huge files you don't want to have to rencode to have it supported in your encoding application.

[sigourney]

Ah, that's from a DVD ripping point of view so you can obviously benefit from it.

I'm thinking that unless the filters in Virtual Dub have an effect it's not worth me bothering with.

[M82a1]

I use it because of the 4GB file constriants of the fat32 file system of win9x, i.e. capture multiple 4GB segments w/V-Dub, open and append those segments, then frameserve to TMPGEnc to encode into one .mpg

[sigourney]

Fantastic! That's an excellent reason for using it!

I've got one of those NAPA VCD players and they're really fussy about bitrate and stuff. The last film I did I merged the MPEGs together in TMPGenc before burning but on playback the audio is very stuttery.

I'll give that a try, thanks!

[M82a1]

I don't like to merge .mpg in TMPGEnc because of the beep that I sometimes get where the files merge. btw there's issues w/frameserve in V-Dub 1.4.10 so use V-Dub 1.4.9

[PhArAoH]

You can also frameserve from a video editor.
For example I use Premiere to cut, add effects and transitions, add titles etc etc to my DV home videos and frameserve to TMPGenc. I now have all my VHS, 8mm home videos in VCD's. Frameserving has saved me great deal of time and hard disk because there is no need to convert to a large AVI file before encoding to MPEG.


PhArAoH

[sigourney]

Hmmm...my Matrox captures don't stick to 25fps so joining them will be a pain but I've just tried frameserving iwth an obvious filter like grayscale in V Dub so I could see if it has an effect. It does so I'm happy.

Thanks for the info.