Why frameserving??

[fitte]

Hi there,

what´s the advantage with frameserving? I made several rips with CCE (frameserving with Virtual Dub) and also made several rips wiht TMPGEnc withour frameserving and i really can´t see any differance...??

All i recognized was the frameserving will need more time to encode than without frameserving.

I make XVCD´s with 1800 - 2000 kbps.

Can anyone tell me the reason for frameserving??

Thanks in advance.

[EricB]

I believe the primary reason for frameserving is to provide a function which is not available, or works poorly in your final encoder. For example, I frameserve VOB files using DVD2AVI to TMPGenc because it will not accept the VOB files directly.

I frameserve DV files from Premiere to TMPGenc to get around the 4G limit of DV files. You can assemble up to 3hrs of video in Premiere, and frameserve it out to the encoder. This is also necessary because Premiere's mpeg encoding is lousy.

[mikewg]

Here's the reason I use it...

I capture a show to an AVI and the end result will be a few gigs. I edit out the commercials, and then Frameserve it to TMPGEnc. If I didn't frameserve, I'd have to save the AVI with the edited out commercials to a new AVI (thus needing twice the space), then save that as a MPG. When my hard drive gets full, this is not an option. Plus, why waste the time of resaving the AVI when I can just capture, edit, and directly save as a MPG.

[sommersby]

You also need to frameserve for encoder programs that do not accept dv2 files or ones that do not resize, i.e. panasonic encoder and CCE.