Re: [dvd::rip] Cluster mode transcode install ?

[Karl Kashofer <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi !

>>[transcode] warning : (dl_loader.c) loading
>>"/usr/lib/transcode/export_divx4.so" failed
> 
> 
> Obviously you decided to use the transcode divx4 export filter which is
> not installed on this node. Btw divx4 is *rather* outdated and it's 
> unlikely that you have the divx4 encoder library (from divx.com) 
> installed (which is needed by transcode's export_divx4.so library, which
> is a wrapper around the closed source encoder library from divx.com). 
> More likely you want to use divx5. Or even better: xvid or ffmpeg, which
> are better choices in general, Open Source and equal if not better in 
> quality.

You are right, i didnt notice, but there is something strange. Will have
to investigate. I thought I had selected xvid in the master...


>>Also: the master control script seems to not like the fact that are two
>>different versions of transcode in the cluster, i.e. 0.6 from sarge and
>>1.x from etch. Is that a problem ?
> 
> 
> Yep, otherwise dvd::rip wouldn't complain... It's highly recommended to
> have identical transcode versions installed on all nodes, otherwise you
> may get strange results, e.g. A/V sync problems or other completely 
> unpredictable stuff.

Bugger, so how do i get my sarge and Etch nodes to work together in the
cluster ?  Is there a transcode 1.0 for sarge or 0.6 for etch ?

Thanks for your help,
Karl