Benefits of FrameServing?

[nyijedi]

I know this is probably a stupid question to many of you, but can someone tell me what the benefits of frameserving to TMPGEnc are? I know that it avoids writing a huge temporary video file, but is this the only benefit? Does it make a difference in anything like the speed or quality of the encode? Thanks.

[thayne]

Saving time and file size is the benifit, not encoding time, but the time to create an AVi

[FOO]

It also allows feeding TMpGenc formats that it doesn't llike.

[Vejita-sama]

Depends on the source and what you are trying to do. Generally speaking the advantage of frameserving is that you can apply all the filters you wish and send each frame to the encoder without having the intermediate avi file. Each encode results in lower quaility, so from that POV frameserving saves quility from being lost.

If your source is a DVD rip frameserving with DVD2AVI (d2v file) or the VAFPI codec also save/minimize quaility lost.

[nyijedi]

Thanks. The filters aspect of it makes more sense. Can anyone recommend some good filters they use to eliminate noise/interference in captures from vhs tapes? I've experimented with AviSynth and VirtualDub as frameservers...any input on which to use and what filters to use? Thanks in advance.