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The concept explained

Naturally I could go into highly detailed technical information, but I not.
I'm just telling you the basics. This is how the process works. Take a look at the diagram below:

So why and when should I use this?

Well there are several reasons why I use it:

• Your favorite encoder cannot be used as a plugin for you A/V application.
  For example: I found DVDx to have problems with the CCE encoder plugin, there simply is no Premiere plugin for this encoder.
  
  
• You do not want to first save a huge file on disk.
  Which you afterwards convert with your afvorite encoder.
  

How to install the VideoServer?

First of all: download the latest version from VideoTools.net. I didn't put the files at WeetHet as the constant development of this tool makes it hard to keep the most recent version available here. You should be looking for Premiere Video Server Plugin (with installer).

The plugin is distributed in two packages, one with a installer and one without. I personally would go for the full installer as it makes life a lot easier. If you have the package with the installer you can run the setup.exe and follow the instructions of the installer. But you can also do the installation by hand.

Tip: make sure that before starting with the installation, you delete the old files of previous VideoServer installations!. Detailed information can be found in the readme.txt of the plugin package.

FLASKMPEG/XMPEG

The installation for FlasKMPEG or Xmpeg is done by just copying the videoserver.cm.flask (or videoserver.cm.Xmpeg) in the same directory as the FlasKMPEG or Xmpeg executable.

DVDX

The installation for DVDx is basically the same, copy cm-videoserver.prm to the application directory of DVDx, you also have to move the CM-avisynth.prm into the directory of DVDx.

ADOBE PREMIERE

For Adobe Premiere you need to move the cm-videoserver.prm to the plugin directory of Adobe Premiere. (...\Premiere\Plug-ins).

For all these alternatives: The plugin is automatically detected and loaded when either of these application start. So if you had one of these applications running during installation: shutdown the application and start the application again in order for the application to find the new plugin.

If you want to use one of the following new features of the plugin, you need to copy these extra files in the same directory as the plugin.

• audio encoding (WAV2MP.EXE)
• 2:3 pulldown - usefull for CCE 2.5x (PULLDOWN.EXE)
• multiplexing/cutting (bbmpeg.dll, SVCD80m.INI, SVCD74m.INI, SVCD.INI, DVD.INI)
• AVIWrapper codec (client)

Installing the AVIWrapper codec

Inside the zip-file of the Premiere Video Server plugin the AVIWrapper client codec is also present. Before you start installing a new version you need to remove the old wrapper codec. The new wrapper codec can be installed by extracting the aviwrap.dll and aviwrap.inf from the package and running the install-script aviwrap.inf from for example c:\temp. (Right-click the file, and select install).

The main purpose of the AVIWrapper codec is to support applications that do not support Adobe Premiere plugins!

Final note: The plugins have been tested it on Windows 9x, NT, Windows 2000 and XP. So this should be no problem. If you would like to see how to use this plugin with for exampe DVDx and CCE, then please take a look at the guides available at WeetHet.