I am not happy with divx 5 in Gnot, why?

[Sgt Snuffy]

I have used Gnot for awhile, gone through all the changes, thanks wef for a great program, it has gotten easier and more riliable every time. I was happiest with the .21, I made some great rips on divx4, however I would time to time have audio problems and would get no sound so I upgraded to the .26 with besweet, works great, fast, reliable, however the movies are now fuzzy, I have tired identical rips over and over changing filters and such, even went and got pro and used its features but they still seem kind of out of focus. I will probably just go back to 4 and be happy but wanted to ask the pros if they had any ideas what I'm doing wrong or if it's just 5.02?, do I have the codec in the right place, I'm sure i do just wanted to say that in case you guys say I need to install it into gnot somewhere?

Anyway thanks for the info provided throughout these forums and I hope to get somewhere with this, I heard 5 is better than 4 and that I can run a higher bitrate for the same compression so I hope that I am doing something wrong :)

[CaPPyD]

Did you uninstall 4 before installing 5? I've heard that havign both codecs installed causes issues.

[Sgt Snuffy]

Yes, to the best of my knowledge I did correctly. I pressed the delete registry keys in the old Gnot, restarted, and installed the original gnot, then the update to divx. I have done some more testing and it appears as though I need to carry a higher bit rate than I used to to get the same quality as before. I am having to make 2 cd rips with movies between 1.5 to 2 hours in length. My prior experience says that I usually attempted these length movies on a 700 mb rip, reviewed quality and decided if I need to make it over with 1400MB, now it seems I have no choice bit rates below 130ish don't seem to bring the desired quality that I am used to getting from divx 4, this is confusing as I expected at least a 10% increase in bitrate from just the new 5.02 codec

Anyone got Ideas about that?

[CaPPyD]

Deleting the registry keys does NOT uninstall DivX4. and installing 0.21 will also reinstall DivX 4. I think you can go into add/remove programs and remove DivX 4 there (i think, i never actually used 4). If not, you can go into multimedia in control panel and check for it there. At this point i can GUARANTEE you that DivX 4 is still installed on your system and am almost positive that having both is causing your issues.

[Hattyfatner]

CappyD is dead right, you get that really low bitrate-quality when DivX4 is installed; you can go to "start->programs->Divx 4->uninstall" to get rid of it, I think you'll find that makes it work. The same thing happened to me with The Perfect Storm ...

[Hattyfatner]

CappyD is dead right, you get that really low bitrate-quality when DivX4 is installed; you can go to "start->programs->Divx 4->uninstall" to get rid of it, I think you'll find that makes it work. The same thing happened to me with The Perfect Storm, see thread "Just won't work!"...

[Sgt Snuffy]

ok, I've searched, looked, rooted, all to no avail, I can't find divx 4 on my machine, where could it be? Where does it install from gnot? I'm concerned that yes it may be in there and is hurting my quality. I say this because now when I run the compressability check I see it says divx 4 in the log but when I run it and listed up in que it says divx5?? So, I've always seen that before to the best of my knowledge but now I have installed and am running divx 5 so why is the 4 still showing up in the compressability check?

[Hattyfatner]

DivX4 is installed with the GKnot package unless you unselect it. I don't think you have it on your system anyway. It says DivX4 at certain points in GKnot when it is actually DivX5 being used; I think theWEF has just overlooked that minor descrepancy. If you getting kick ass rips its probably working right. :)