Losing frames when frameserving

[xjapan89]

Is it just me or does this aways happens, lose frames when frameserving from virtualdub to TMPGEnc? Is it 'cause my PC is too slow? damn! It sounded too good to be true...

[HillJack]

What makes you think you are losing frames due to VDub's framserver? Even under the most intense disk activity, I've NEVER lost a single frame through frameserving to TMPGEnc with VDub.

Are you sure the frames arent lost to begin with?

If TMPGEnc has to wait for a frame (unlikely, as I used to encode on a P1-200Mhz and it worked fine, and now I frameserve over a LAN and it still works fine), it will wait. VDub doesn't skip frames, and they're there for TMPGEnc to grab whenever it wants them.

[xjapan89]

Yeah, that's what I thought and makes a lot more sense...

Well, the source is fine, no framedrops at all, but the final mpg plays really choppy and looking at it frame by frame, it repeats, like, every third frame or so... really strange to me, what you said makes a lot more sense, that TMPGEnc should wait (wich is unlikely, since it encodes slower than VirtualDUB saves)...

Well, I'll try to figure out what the matter is, and thanks for the input... at least I know it's not and speed issue...

[Truman]

Is the source framerate and the target framerate the same?