Frameserving ??????

[andyp1]

Gentlemen ........and Ladies (Just incase)

First of all Thank You to the members of this forum . You have taught me so much in the last couple of years . I really appreciate your help. And I do try and help newbies with the knowledge you have given me.

I have a question it may seem silly not to know this but what in easy terms is frameserving ? Is it just the process of loading a video into TMPGenc Plus to allow it to create a DVD or VCD for me ? Or is there something more to it ?

I have managed to do so many things using the guides and have never had to specifacally 'frameserve' so it is one of those terms I have never really understood.

Many Thanks

[Red96TA]

Essentially. frameserving is the act of two programs talking to eachother to accomplish a single task...in my case:

I edit video in Vegas 4...after editing, I frameserve to MainConcept to encode my finished product to mpg2.

Vegas 4 sets up a 'signpost' avi file. Vegas begins to send information to the signpost file and at the same time, MainConcept picks up each frame and integrates it into it's mpg2 output file...thus the term 'frameserving'...one program 'serves' a 'frame' to the other program for processing...

In another case, VDub will mux subtitles with video...after finishing my work in VDub, I frameserve it to TMPGEnc to mux up the two files (sub and video) into one mpg2 file that is easier to author.

Hope that makes sense...

[andyp1]

I think I've got it from that.

I use virtual dub to extract the audio in an AVI to WAV . Then I use TMPGenc to convert the Video and the WAV I created in Virtualdub to create the m2v and wav to send to TMPGenc DVD Author to create a VIDEO_TS folder to burn using Nero 6 Ultra ..

So I can say that I took my video file and the wav I created with VDub and frameserved to TMPGenc Plus to create an mpeg2 .

It seems just to be a terminology thing rather than an actual process .

[Red96TA]

Not exactly...you're using two programs, but seperately (from what I read).

The case I'm talking about is that the two programs are in constant communication with eachother at the same time. ie: you tell VDub to add a hard coded subtitle to a video track....GREAT! now what do you do? You need to have VDub talk with TMPGEnc. VDub has to tell Tmpenc what sub goes on what video frame...As VDub tells TMPGEnc what the frame should look like, TMPGEnc takes the information and converts the sub file and video track into one file...

In the case of Vegas 4 and MainConcept, I may have 30 seperate video tracks and 20 audio tracks in a particular composition....GREAT. Now what do I do? I have to let Vegas tell MCE exactly what's going on on each frame. As Vegas 'supervises' MCE, MCE takes the information from the 50 different sources and makes mpg2 frames based off the information that it's supervisor is telling it...

ie.

Vegas tells MCE: frame 133,090 has to have these six video tracks and this one audio track

MCE to Vegas: YES SIR!!! [MCE processes fram 133,090 according to the directions from Vegas]

Without the two working together, you aren't going to get frameserving.

[andyp1]

Thanks for your reply Red

I do indeed use a programme to perform a single task and then move on to the next programme to perform the next task . So I haven't needed to frameserve in what I have achieved so far.

I have heard the term so often but just haven't realised what it meant . I think your explanation was very clearly put and thank you once again for your effort and quick response.

[pijetro]

AS the term states, Frame and Serve..

Tmpgenc asks for a frame, and the frame gets served.
The biggest advantage, is that if you need to resize, cleanup, letterbox, resample audio, add two videos into one, etc....you don't have to create an intermediary .AVI file. The frameserver gives Tmpgenc the required frames, and in turn, they get encoded...

Rather than having Tmpgenc decide how to resize, resample, etc...the frameserver does it much better, and usually faster...Tmpgenc simply encodes the frame that the frameserver gave it.

Enjoy!!!!