[dvd::rip] Cluster-Mode / AudioTrack (2)

Hi,

> Mark wrote:

> This is because you've likely selected ogg vorbis for audio. As this
> codec does not produce exact file sizes, dvdrip has to do the audio
> first, as dvdrip doesn't support splicing of audio files. See if you
> get better/different results using mp3.

I've selected 'pass-through' AC3 (i.e. 6-Channel)

> Don't forget there is some audio processing at the end, but this is
> just merging the video and audio into one file.

That's ok - dependencies other processes have to wait for.

> This will happen fastest on the NFS node if you don't have a network
> as fast as the filesystem. I can't explain the performance loss you
> experience having the NFS node also encoding -- it works fine for me.
> I would suggest this is an OS issue. What OS are you running?

Sorry, i forgot: All engines are powered by SuSE-Linux 9.0

> Additionally, there is no way to specify which jobs/tasks to run on
> which node. The only thing dvdrip does in this regard is giving audio
> and file merging tasks to the machine to which filesystem is local
> (i.e.the NFS server.), which may also be why audio is happening last
> dvdrip is looking for the filesystem node and isn't finding it.

Thanks for your replay, i think i have to check some more configuration
options - maybe one fits perfectly.

Cheers
 -Rolf

> PS. I'm envious of your cluster

The cluster is just a cheap one: http://www.rolf-luettecke.de
(look at 'Number-Cruncher' in the menue). The other machines are
somewhat more expensive ;-)

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