Network Video Encoding

see Virtualdubmod and Vidomi DaveEL

DaveEL: He wants to encode to MPEG-2, not to AVI, those two programs will only do the latter :( jimarick: If you did use an existing program like CCE, what would the 'server' do once one workstation got done, and was waiting on the other workstations? There are issues with using an already established encoder like CCE, because for this type of a project, you'd want something that would appear nearly transparent on the workstations (otherwise someone mucking around might accidently cancel the encoding on that workstation, etc.) There is only one product I could find that might do something even remotely close to what you're asking, and that was 'Cleaner Central': Other than that, I think you're on your own :( The real problem is as far as I'm aware, there aren't any both high quality and fast MPEG-2 encoders in the public domain.

I see your concerns int 21h. The server would just continue to run the program and would show a log file of which machines were still encoding and which had finished, and a simple progress bar. Also it wouldnt be very hard to hide the CCE encoding window using an API call, leaving it invisible incase anyone planned on "playing" with it. I was thinking of trying to develop a small program which interacted with maybe virtual dub to split the original AVI and CCE which encoded it. However I dont really have the time! :) James

For a similar purpose I successfully tested avs2avi on Condor HTC-software () but so far only on a single machine.

@k2au5 I've seen Condor site, seems that in the Windows port can only do the same as Vidomi since it can do remote calls: split the VOB and encode separately. Of course this will affect 2-pass encodings... Bilu