VideoServer vs. PluginPac: speed test

[Dr Mordrid]

I finally got around to doing a short speed test the comparing VideoTools.net's VideoServer and PluginPac frameservers.

Setup:

15,887 frame DV type1 video (~2:13 worth of video) with no effects at all.

TMPGEnc settings;

NTSC DVD
2-pass VBR at 6000 kbps
DC = 10
Motion search = Normal

Rendering times

Malual export & encode: 13:26
VideoServer: 13:05
PluginPac: 28:11

The choices couldn't be more obvious.

If you're interested in price you go with PluginPac.

The rub is that it's so slow that even with no effects the render will be much slower than manual encoding. With numerous effects its lack of speed is interminable and even the convenience advantage of frameserving evaporates.

If you want speed you go with VideoServer.

With no effects the speed issue is a wash vs. manual encoding, but it still offers convenience. With effects it offers a significant speed advantage (my experience is ~25-30%) over saving a disk file and loading that into your encoder.

Dr. Mordrid

[Sciascia]

Well, besides the fact that I already bought the videotools videoserver, it is a lot more configurable which I like. It's a very well written piece of code and the aviwrapper is very fast, as evident in your tests. I haven't needed to use AVISynth for anything, but having that option is very nice as well.

Videoserver hands down IMHO.

[Dr Mordrid]

And Edwin will only make VideoServer better and better.

Dr. Mordrid