Is It Possible To Batch Frameserve from VirtualDub->TMPGE

[Teshia]

Okay, I get clicks of sound in between joined MPG segments in TMPGEnc and it's gross, so over the weekend I took a certain liking to frameserving edited AVI segments in VirtualDub through to TMPGEnc where they get converted quite nicely into a beautiful, seamless VCD standard MPG. I'm very impressed with frameserving. HOWEVER, I used to batch encode tons of AVI segments overnight in TMPGEnc using it's batch feature. I'm assuming I can't do this now because frameserving appears to only serve one SET of AVI captures. Is it possible to have VirtualDub frameserve several AVI captures that have been divided into segments? Could I open up several copies of VD and start several frameservers running a series of VDR files? That way I could have TPMGEnc convert a whole slew of captures overnight while I'm asleep, which is pretty helpful.

[fantomlord]

Okay, I get clicks of sound in between joined MPG segments in TMPGEnc and it's gross, so over the weekend I took a certain liking to frameserving edited AVI segments in VirtualDub through to TMPGEnc where they get converted quite nicely into a beautiful, seamless VCD standard MPG. I'm very impressed with frameserving. HOWEVER, I used to batch encode tons of AVI segments overnight in TMPGEnc using it's batch feature. I'm assuming I can't do this now because frameserving appears to only serve one SET of AVI captures. Is it possible to have VirtualDub frameserve several AVI captures that have been divided into segments? Could I open up several copies of VD and start several frameservers running a series of VDR files? That way I could have TPMGEnc convert a whole slew of captures overnight while I'm asleep, which is pretty helpful.

you're probably better off using avisynth.
I know there's commands for using segmented avi sources, and you can just create a script for each set, and add each of them to TMPG's batch and encode overnight.

[Teshia]

Aye carumba, nothing but scripts and a total absence of GUI as far as the eye can see. Great app, but not very user friendly. Is there a guide out there that covers AVISynth scripting in reference to batch frameserving AVI segments?

[Thorn]

I open up several copies of virtualdub on occasion and there hasn't been a problem. I use it to test encode something on a file I'm editing in another instance, or to batch encode overnight. Just don't frameserve from the same file twice simultaneously, I guess. I haven't tried avisynth but it sounds like the deciding factor would be if you are batch encoding three files occasionally or 150 a night.

[fantomlord]

Aye carumba, nothing but scripts and a total absence of GUI as far as the eye can see. Great app, but not very user friendly. Is there a guide out there that covers AVISynth scripting in reference to batch frameserving AVI segments?

http://math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth-reference.html
avisynth is a very good program--and it will speed up encoding compared to using VDub. it's not that hard to learn--you can even use VDub plugins
if the above link doesn't help you enough, search the forums here, or at doom9

[Teshia]

Well the answer to my question is yes. Went home tonight and tried it out and you can batch encode a series of frameserved AVI chains by running several VirtualDub frameserver sessions. I made a screenshot of three frameservers running and TMPGEnc batch encoding them all, but I guess BBCode doesn't allow for JPG links. At least, I couldn't get it to link to my screenshot, but here it is:

http://www.interzone23.com/fun/batch_frameserving.jpg

As for AVISynth, I'm very intrigued by this. At least I have my problem solved with this stop gap until I figure out how to sharpen my scripting skills in AVISynth. Thanks for all the help and great suggestions guys.