Norman,

Still strange that it works in Ripbot, even in the two-pass mode. Furthermore you can preview the file in Ripbot and scroll anywhere you want and Vegas will follow.

"Scan Pass" and "Encoding Pass" are two completely different functions.
Handrake can do two-pass encoding. That makes three passes in total.

I don't know what ripbot does or what module(s) are used during the initial scan.
I'm reluctant to install it because it wants k-lite under the hood.

Still strange that it works in Ripbot, even in the two-pass mode. Furthermore you can preview the file in Ripbot and scroll anywhere you want and Vegas will follow.

Okay. That sounds like more than a generic pipe like interface. Given what you say it specs like more of a special protocol specific on Windows.

Handbrake is designed to make more than one pass over the input file. That is the sole reason why it cannot work with a frameserver.

Don't think this is correct. E.g. you can frameserve to a signpost avi file which will open in Virtudaldub. You can then apply the Deshaker filter, which is a two-pass operation. On pass 1, select "Run video analysis pass" and it will process the entire file. Then change the filter to Pass 2, Save as AVI and it will process the file again and save the results. If your're not happy with the results, you can change the Pass 2 parameters and process the file again. Clearly, the frameserver supports multi-pass.

On a simpler level, you can simply select points in the displayed file with Vdub, go back and forth, or whatever, and you can see the fame number displayed in the Vegas preview change.

To me, this suggests that the problem lies in the application (e.g. Handbrake), and not in the frameserver itself.

wwaag

Just letting you all know, I downloaded the 32-bit Virtual Dub, and now I can frameserve to it. So, the 64-bit version of VD does not support frameserving but the 32-bit version does, even if the source is 64-bit Vegas.

...with VP 13?

Any update on frameserving? Just curious....

I just got an email from Satish this morning in which he says he's still working on it.
Chris

Thanks, Chris! You da man!!

(Seriously, your feedback is GREATLY appreciated!)

Indeed, totally awesome.

Thanks, Chris.

Satish posted a few hours ago to the frameserver-discuss Google group:

Sorry its taken so long. Its more work than I expected because frameserver installer today includes so many different plugins that supporting both 32 bit and 64 bit plugins is complicated. I'm having to build a separate installer for Vegas now to simplify things, and I expect to release something mid next week. Thanks for your patience in the mean time.

With luck, it might even be available before the VP13 upgrade offer closes.

Thanks for the update, Nick!

..

Satish is now looking for beta testers for his Frameserver build for VP13.

[url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/frameserver-discuss/4Oo5dLRuvPM/J_pZH3ZMebsJ]

From Satish:

"Satish Sampath

2:31 PM (2 hours ago)

Thanks Dennis! That was a pretty exhaustive test. Looks like its working in the typical use case of frameserving to an external encoder but fails in many cases when frameserving to another version of Vegas. I haven't specifically tested that case in any version or specifically made it work, so I'll go ahead and release this version to the public.

Thanks for your help again. Much appreciated."

The results of my tests:


DVD Architect

Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

DVD Architect 6.0 (237) recognized the signpost.avi file and was able to render to a Blu-ray image.

(Admittedly, not a common workflow.)



Image sequence Output didn't work in this release.




TMPGEnc

Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

TMPGEnc-2.524.63.181-Plus recognized the signpost.avi file and was able to render to DVD elementery stream files.



VirtualDub

I was able to open the signpost file in VirtualDub-1.10.4-32 bit) but not VirtualDub-1.10.4-AMD64.



Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player worked on the local machine but played with audio only on another machine on the network.

The same was true whether the signpost file was being served to a file on the local or remote machine.



Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB24
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 12-770 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.



Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 12-770 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.
Msg: File G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi could not be opened.


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
YUY2
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 12-770 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.
Msg: File G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi could not be opened.



Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB24
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 13-310 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 13-310 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
YUY2
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 13-310 64-bit could not identify the file:G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi on a local disk.
Msg: File G:\Frameserve This\2014-05-03 Angelica's Baby Shower v3.avi could not be opened.



Vegas Pro 9.0e 64 bit

Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB24
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 9.0e 64-bit could open the audio but not the video.


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 9.0e 64-bit could open the audio but not the video.


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
YUY2
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 9.0e 64-bit could open the audio but not the video.


Vegas Pro 10.0e 64 bit


Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 10.0e 64-bit could open the audio but not the video.



Vegas Pro 11-701 64 bit

Frameserving from Vegas Pro 13
RGB32
Write audio as PCM samples in the signpost file is checked.
Enable Network Frameserving is checked.
Network Port to use 8278

Result: Vegas Pro 11-701 64-bit couldn't open the signpost file.

 

That's a great amount of work & good testing @john_dennis.

I did reply to Satish about volunteering, but never heard back.

Any idea when the update will be up for general use?

Tom

"Any idea when the update will be up for general use?"

He didn't say. I suspect when he gets a round tuit.

"a round tuit"

I have a few of those to spare I could send him. LOL!

Tom

Hi all,

Thanks for your patience, I've released a new version of Debugmode Frameserver 2.15 specifically for Vegas Pro 13. More info at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/frameserver-discuss/4Oo5dLRuvPM/C4cHc1U6wn4J

Thanks
Satish

Thanks for all your hard work Satish... I assume that 2.14 and 2.15 cannot co-exist.

So if we still want to able to frameserve from VP12, as well as from VP13, how??
Tom

I'm not sure to be honest.. you could try installing both versions one after the other, but give different install paths for the frameserver "core" module (default is Program Files\debugmode\frameserver, so just change it to something else).

Interestingly, someone in my user groups wrote:

"It seems there are no problems using Frameserver 2.15 in combination with Vegas Pro12 because I de-installated Frameserver 2.14 at first and even now I'm able to use the combination in Pro12."

Thank you Satish.

Has anyone tested this to see if it works from Vegas Pro 13 to AviSynth?

Has anyone tested this to see if it works from Vegas Pro 13 to AviSynth?

I have using one of your AVS scripts for Megui encoding. No problem.

wwaag