AVI Video in 16-bit :-/

[jokklas]

Everything worked great with the rip (Creds, Muxing you name it) except for the fact that it got a color depth of 16-bit which looks like hell for Video (games is of course an entire different subject;).

Where did I do wrong in GKnot to get this error?

[Acaila]

You didn't do anything wrong. It's normal to get a 16-bit color file when you encode to DivX4 using GKnot. It's because VirtualDub works in fast-recompress mode, which always produces that kind of file.

The fact that it says 16-bit in the properties tab doesn't mean it actually is too.....

[jggimi]

There was a detailed discussion of this question, in this forum, last week. Don't know why you missed it. :eek:

The thread was called 16 bit vs. 24 bit (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13431)

[jokklas]

Thx for the thread link. It wasn't the 16-bit that made the video look like shit.. for some reason it got all messed up because of usage of 608x256.. but with exact same settings with 640x272 it looked perfect.. Really weird.

[mobbo]

Well jokklas, the matter on resolution may not be that strange after all. Like a lot of other people (inluding myself) you own a graphics card that need a picture with resolutions in width that is a multiply of 32 in order to make proper use of hardware acceleration. A directshow filter exist, which is original written for the Matrox G400 chip, but also works for other graphic cards. The tool is called DivX400 and may be used if you want to play a movie that do not have a resolution in width that is divisible by 32. And when you do your own movies make sure to choose a proper width

[jokklas]

Ehr.. 608x256 IS divisable with 32 and 640x272 is NOT.. and my Graphic cards can play any movie regardless of resolution. That's why this is so weird.

[DaveEL]

If i remeber correctly divx4 sometimes screws up the colours of divx3 encoded sessions.

Solution use the real divx3 decoder

regsvr32 /u c:\WINDOWS\system32\divxdec.ax
regsvr32 c:\WINDOWS\system32\divxdec.ax

and chose no to playing divx3 content

if on windows nt or use system rather then system32 if on windows 9x

Dave