Rendering farming

[kenmo]

I have a small network at home. My server is a Linux-Samba (Mandrake 9.0) server (file and print services) (Duron 750), and two client computers Windows 2000SP (Athlon XP 1800+) and Windows XP Pro (Athlon 900). All connected via 100mps ethernet.

In Bryce 5.0 you can use all three computers to render the same image using the Bryce client/server software. Bryce is running and rendering a image on the server computer and the two other computers are running a client version of Bryce named Lightning. They can assist the server computer in rendering the same image.

I was wondering if there was a similar way to utilize Tmpgenc or CCE ? I mean why not put all three computers to work on my video encoding.

OR

Could I have one computer frameserving to one of the other computers. There must be some way to this ???

Most of the time my Linux computer seats idle sharing diskspace & a printer, running SETI@home and playing MP3's or RealAudio radio (NHL Hockey broadcasts, Art Bell talk show, etc).

Thoughts ....

[BJ_M]

you can frame serve yes .. but there are no distrubuted mpeg render programs though ..

other programs that preprocess video files can do this though ( dFx Fusion).

[kenmo]

you can frame serve yes .. but there are no distrubuted mpeg render programs though ..

other programs that preprocess video files can do this though ( dFx Fusion).

Do you mean I could have my Win2000 running VirtualDub and frameserve to my WinXP computer running Tmpgenc ?

Neat...