transcoding queue

[taner]

Hi Steipal,

At first: you've made a great job with ffastrans! Very powerful! Easy to use! Very very great features! Every time when I start ffastrans I get a smile on my face. We will leave Telestram Episode behind us and use ffastrans in the future.

As a feature-request it would be great if there could be a way that files in a queue automatically switch to a machine which has free resources.

Let me describe my current situation with an example.

We have 5 transcoding-machines. When all transcoding-machines are working and a new file is discovered for transcoding status-monitor tells me that the new file "waits for resource.." on for example machine-1.
Thats fine.
But when machines 2-4 finished their jobs and has nothing to do and machine-1 is still working the new file is still in the queue of machine-1 and does not automatically switch to another machine which has free resources.

Best

Taner

[admin]

Hi Taner, thank you for using FFAStrans and welcome to the forum!

Your enthusiasm for my project makes me very happy

I'm afraid your request is a bit tricky, and I would say almost impossible with the current code base. However, I will take a look at how FFAStrans can be smarter when deciding what to pick up when. But once a node has taken a job, it must be finished on the current computer that holds the node. Once the node is finished it may be picked up by another computer for further processing.

-steinar

[taner]

Hi Steinar,

Thanks in advance for your efforts!

In the next days/weeks I will post more feature requests and bug reports. Hope you will not get frustrated.

Best

Taner

[admin]

No problem, just keep it coming! Especially bug reports

-steinar