Re: [dvd::rip] (re)greetings and questions about cluster mode

[Jörn Reder <joern@xxxxxx>]

"Anton Melser" wrote:

> 1. How does cluster mode deal with nodes failing/crashing (if I
> shutdown a node that is processing, will the job get picked up by
> another) ?

Answered already ;)

> 2. Any ideas on the effort required to implement frame ranges?

I think this will never be possible, since transcode's cluster mode 
depends on dividing the VOB stream into n chunks on fixed boundaries (on
a per PSU basis to be exact) and does some weird magic to get A/V 
synchronisiation handled.

> I have done a bit of PERL and hated, yes it even deserves caps, HATED
> every second of it (give me strong typing and a decent debugger any
> day!)

Then you don't deserve Perl if you want strong typing :))

> but would be more than willing (for such a good cause ;-)) to
> have a go at implementing 2.

This wouldn't help, since this is no dvd::rip restriction (which could 
be fixed on a Perl level), but a transcode restriction. I doubt it's 
technically possible to solve that at all (it's not transcode's fault -
far from it transcode's cluster mode is real magic...).

Regards,

Jörn

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