Whats the point using Frameserver?

[mikeweb]

Why would one want to use frameserver? does it decrease quality when using it with TMPGEnc?

[e-z-e]

all a framesaver does is make a dvd ripped movie able to be read by an encoder as one file. otherwise, you would have to encode each separate vob file and then join them together. framesavers just make a .d2v file which reads from vobs and encodes in one project. i dont think you lose quality by framesaving...

hope that helps,
e-z-e

[bunyip]

Think of frameserving as a pre-processor to TMPGenc.

The sort of things it can do is,
- feed multiple captured files as a single movie (overcomes file size limits),
- apply filters that TMPGenc doesn't support,
- apply filters outside TMPGenc so that encoding is faster (e.g. denoise, de-interlace etc.)
- do frame-rate conversion,
and so on.

Frameserving is a very useful tool and it allows TMPGenc to get on with the main task - encoding.
For other encoders that only encode and don't even resize (e.g. CCE), frameserving presents the video in the form that the encoder demands.

Of course if you only have a small AVI file to encode and don't want to apply special filters then you don't need to use frameserving.

As for quality loss, if you are serving only and not applying any filters then the video is served in its original state - no degradation, usually though, by applying filters you are trying to increase quality.