GKnot 0.25b

[Ice009]

Hi,

i just recently installed this great, great program a couple of weeks ago and followed Doom9's Divx 5 guide to the letter and came up with some great looking rips.

i see that 0.26 has been released since then and was wondering if i should install this since i'm having no problems with 0.25b? does 0.26 offer any significant improvements or should i just stick with 0.25b. sorry if this is a silly question ;)

another thing if i install 0.26 should i first uninstall Gknot and install everything again or can i just run the 0.26.exe and update 0.25?

[epere4]

Doom9 said in his news on May 21st 2002:
Some people have suggested not to upgrade to the latest Gordian Knot because it doesn't allow enough flexibility in the DivX5 codec configuration. Time to rethink that now! Gordian Knot 0.26 allows you to configure all the important DivX5 options, including the psy settings. There's really no need to be able to use the other options.. Furthermore GKnot now uses trbarry's SimpleResize filter which results in decreased encoding time, the DivX5 compcheck has been improved, the compcheck runs audio encoding bug has been fixed along with the framenumber adjustment bug in IVTC mode. And the new version comes with an installer that can be used to update your 0.21 installation

If you want to read it completelly, goto the May2002 News (http://www.doom9.org/Old_news/may02.htm) and read what says in the day 21st.

Good Luck

[Ice009]

hey Epere4,

thanks for the reply. after reading that i think i may upgrade to the new version and give it a go :)

so can you update 0.25b with the 0.26 installer package or do i uninstall first then install 0.21 -> 0.26?

also i read about the fast deinterlace bug up at the top of the page which brings me to another question :

i'm a little unsure about interlaced movies. when following Doom9's guide to preview a movie in dvd2avi it always says interlaced, but i don't see any black lines or anything like that in the movie so does this mean it is or isn't interlaced. i've just been checking fast deinterlace in any case. should i be doing this? can it affect the quality if the movie isn't interlaced to begin with?

btw all my movies that i've done so far are PAL.

[epere4]

GordianKnot does not have an uninstaller. So you can´t uninstall.
I am not sure if you have to install first version 0.21 and then 0.26 or if you can install 0.26 over 0.25b. But if I were you I would do the first thing. I would install 0.21 over 0.25b, then 0.26 and finally the DivX5.02 Codec (and that is what the guide says).

About Interlaced PAL source, this is what says in the create DVD2AVI project (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvd2avi.htm) page:
Frame Rate = 25.000 fps: your source is PAL. If the frame type is Interlaced, start the preview again and watch closely if you see no horizontal black lines going thru the picture then the frames are actually progressive and you're already done here.

Form this, I understand you source is NOT interlaced and that you don´t have to deinterlace anything.

Try to fully read the guide because you are asking things that the guide already answers.

Good Luck

[Ice009]

i'm relativly new to Divx encoding, but let me assure you i did read the guide and i read that passage numerous times. i got confused because my source in the preview window always says interlaced so i thought i'm supposed to always check fast deinterlace if it says interlaced on the preview.
i don't know how i interpreted it like that but i did ;)

i thought there'd be no harm in asking just to make it crystal clear, which it should have been, but as i said i somehow misinterpreted. sorry ;)

[epere4]

It´s all right. :D No problem.