Problem opening LOG File in GKnot Solved !

[War-Nerve]

Hello everyone,

I have noticed in many people's log files there is an "ERROR : CAN'T OPEN LOG-FILE" "CAN'T COUNT FRAMES" ect.... and I think this could solve your problem.

I had the same problem of it now opening the LOG File and I managed to solve it like so :

What I did is go to VirtualDub and go to Video -> Compression and looked if the "DivX 5.02 Codec" showed on it's list. If it was there it would encode the movie just fine, but if it wasn't there (and I have tested this MANY times) it would give me that message "could not open log file" in the GKnot log and all I would do then is restart my machine and check it again. Normally it would be there in the VirtualDub Compression list after the restart.

So, I don't think it's problems with horizontal resolutions because that i've never had a problem with.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[theReal]

Never had the problem myself, but I've heard about a dozen times that people solved this problem by re-installing Divx5 and/or Gknot and by making sure that Divx 4 was totally uninstalled. I guess if Divx 5 sometimes doesn't show in the encoders list, re-installing would indeed help.

[War-Nerve]

I've tried re-installing it too, and that does work as well but I think the solution I provided works and the thing is I just want to know if anyone this method works for other people that's all. I've noticed as well that whenever someone posts there .avs file / log file there is always a line : "ERROR : Can't open LOG-FILE". I only get that error when I forget to check for DivX 5.02 Codec in the Video -> Compression menu in VirutalDub.

[Akolite]

I've tried what you suggested, but to no avail. It still fails every time. Any other ideas?

[jggimi]

In Akolite's case, he was still having problems due to Fast Deinterlace and not being up to date with GKnot's bugfix.

[rabf]

Originally posted by War-Nerve
I've tried re-installing it too, and that does work as well but I think the solution I provided works and the thing is I just want to know if anyone this method works for other people that's all. I've noticed as well that whenever someone posts there .avs file / log file there is always a line : "ERROR : Can't open LOG-FILE". I only get that error when I forget to check for DivX 5.02 Codec in the Video -> Compression menu in VirutalDub.

Thanks a lot.
I did what you said.and
You perfectly solved my these 4 weeks problem.
Now I can make 4.7GB file to 700MB that I used to.
Thanks again, genios!

[Akolite]

Yeh... Mine was the de-interlace thing.
Thanx again jggimi

[Katchina404]

Hi all,

I have fresh installation of Windows XP Pro, and a fresh installation of Gknot with the latest updates. I also installed DivX 5.0.2 (not pro) on the machine. I have a similar setup on another PC and I've never had any proble with it...

However, on this new machine, I'm crashing into the "unable to open log file" error as soon as I try running the compressibility check...

Obviously, this is not a problem with DivX 5.0.2, which appears in the compression panel within VirtualDub...

What are these horizontal resolution and/or de-interlace stuff ? Could it be _my_ problem ?

Thanks for helping out

[manono]

Hi-

Could it be _my_ problem ?

Yes, it certainly could. Why don't you post a sample .avs (and leave out the lines starting with "#").

[Akolite]

Yeh... Post avs file. Check that u have updated Gknot with 0.261.

[Katchina404]

Hi,

I will post the .avs tonight when I get home (but where will I find it ? In the directory containing all my vob's and so on ?)

I did update to the last version

[Akolite]

Yeh. It'll be in that directory. There should be two of them. One for the credits as well.

[w_o_moving]

Hi all

I'd like to witness in this serie of post concerning
this problem I add too (same message "can't open log file".. bla bla)

my (short) story:
i followed the DivX 5 guide from doom9.org
-updated gknot (as said in the guide)
-installed the DivX 5.0 pro bundle (as NOT said in the guide), because i had a *registred* version for v5.0 pro (and not 5.02 pro) and here was my error :(
-followed the guide to compress my DVD
-launch the encoding
-error in log
-read this post
-installed v5.02 codec (not pro...)
-worx ! :)

moral of the story:
1.always follow the doom9.org guide and execute EACH step
(and don't try doing it yourself, coz he knows what he's doing)
2.always read the forum/faq if u have a problem, because there is 99.9999% chance someone else had the same problem already and solved it

long live to doom9! :)
:D

and thanks for the excellent job
I've been following this web site since DivX 3.11 and flask :) (remember go.to/doom9)
and the guides were ALWAYS right

cheers,

W_o_moving

[Doc Mobile]

Hm, ich have the same problem...
I have reinstalled DivX, G-knot and my windows... but I have the same problem... here is my ai_Gknot.log I hope somebody can help me...

05.09.2002 16:31:07: Job "Movie 1" started.

o DivX5-Single, Quality 20%: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avs
o DivX5-First Pass: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs
o DivX5-Second Pass: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs
o Append Credits.
x Delete Intermediate Files (disabled).
End of Job 1 (Movie 1).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gordian Knot 0.26.0.6
Encoding Job Data:

Type: EncD5_Both_CreditsSep
Number: 1
Name: Movie 1
Platform: Win2000 (5.0.2195).2

Files:
VirtualDubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\Virtualdub.exe
NandubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\Nandub.exe
AviFinal: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avi
AviMovie: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Movie.avi
AviCredits: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avi
MovieFS: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs
CreditsFS: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avs
Log : D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.log
Stats: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.stats
Ecf : D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.ecf

Options:
Quality/DRF: 20
CreditsStart: 199431
UseEcf: 1
CreditsIVTC: 0
CreditsAppend: 1
DeleteInterm.: 0
EnforceBitrate:0
AntiShit: 0

Calculator:
VideoSize: 562234 kbyte.
Audio1Size: 131109 kbyte.
Audio2Size: 0 kbyte.
Overhead: 13216 kbyte.
AviSize: 706560 kbyte (690 mbyte).
FilesSize: 0 kbyte.
TotalSize: 706560 kbyte (690 mbyte).
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate: 549 k(=1000)Bits/s
Frames: 209775
FPS: 25.000
Duration: 2:19:51
Quality: 0.200 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck3: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck5: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
DivX5BiDirect: 1
DivX5GMC: 1
DivX5QuartPel: 0
DivX5PsyVis: 1
Resolution: 447 x 245

Audio 1:
none.

Audio 2:
none.

16:31:07: Audio 1, calc: 131109 kb
16:31:07: Audio 1, disabled, no recalc. - you probably want to add this track later.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 Single Pass"
// $input "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avs"
// $output "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Credits.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(308,"GAEAAACgDwDQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAQAAAMgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAQAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAGVtcHR5AGM6XHRlc3QuZGl2eABlbXB0eS5tdgBt");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

16:31:07: Started DivX5-Single, Quality 20%: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Credits.avs
16:31:07: Finished DivX5-Single, Quality 20%. Duration: 0 seconds.
16:31:07: Assumed: Main Movie has 199431 Frames.
16:31:07: Assumed: Credits Part has 10344 Frames.
16:31:07: Credits Size = 0Kb
16:31:07: New Bitrate for Movie = 578 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 First Pass"
// $input "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs"
// $output "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(330,"GAEAANDRCADQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAgAAAJABAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAQAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAEQ6XERWRC1WT0JzXGFpLmxvZwBjOlx0ZXN0LmRpdngARDpcRFZELVZPQnNcYWkubXYAbQ==");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

16:31:07: Started DivX5-First Pass: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs
16:31:08: Finished DivX5-First Pass. Duration: 0 seconds.
16:31:08: Trying to open Log-file.
16:31:08: Error: Could not open D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.log
16:31:08: Error: Could not count encoded Frames.
16:31:08: Speed: 0.000 Frames per Second.
16:31:08: WARNING: Number of counted frames differs from settings!
16:31:08: WARNING: Settings: 199431
16:31:08: WARNING: Counted: 0
16:31:08: WARNING: Difference: 199431
16:31:08: Correcting Bitrate...
16:31:08: Original Bitrate = 578 k(=1000)Bits/s
16:31:08: ERROR: Correction impossible.
16:31:08: Now encoding at 578 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 Second Pass"
// $input "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs"
// $output "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompData(330,"GAEAANDRCADQBwAACgAAABQAAAAsAQAADAAAAAIAAAAFAAAAAwAAAJABAAAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAABkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAyAAAAAQAAAAAQAACamZmZmZnJP5qZmZmZmck/QAAAAAEAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIACAADgAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAEAAAD/////BAAAAEQ6XERWRC1WT0JzXGFpLmxvZwBjOlx0ZXN0LmRpdngARDpcRFZELVZPQnNcYWkubXYAbQ==");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

16:31:08: Started DivX5-Second Pass: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avs
16:31:08: Finished DivX5-Second Pass. Duration: 0 seconds.
16:31:08: Speed: 0.000 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\virtualdub\VirtualDub.jobs:

// $job "DivX4 Append"
// $input "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Movie.avi"
// $output "D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Movie.avi",0,0);
VirtualDub.Append("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVD-VOBs\\ai.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

16:31:08: Started Appending Credits: D:\DVD-VOBs\ai_Movie.avi
16:31:08: Finished Appending Credits. Duration: 0 seconds.

16:31:08: Done.
16:31:08: Movie = D:\DVD-VOBs\ai.avi
Total Encoding Time: 1 second.
05.09.2002 16:31:08: Job "Movie 1" finished.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

[manono]

Hi w_o_moving-

I've been following this web site since DivX 3.11 and flask

And only now you're making your first post? Come on man, share your knowledge. Help out the newer guys.:)

Can we use your testimonial for the new ad campaign coming up?:)

[jggimi]

Originally posted by Doc Mobile
Resolution: 447 x 245
Your resolution needs to be divisible by 4 to encode DivX. That is why it failed.

(The GKnot defaults are divisible by 32 and 16. You must have changed the modulo values on the resolution tab.)

[Doc Mobile]

Hm, perhaps this can be the error :-) I will test this... thanx for puting this to my opinion :-)

[Doc Mobile]

Originally posted by jggimi
Your resolution needs to be divisible by 4 to encode DivX. That is why it failed.

WOW... thanx it work :-) Bad error :-)) Now I can compress my holiday svcd vids....

Thanx very much :-)

[hakko504]

Originally posted by jggimi
Your resolution needs to be divisible by 4 to encode DivX. That is why it failed.This goes for the crop values as well. YUV processing requires even crop values. Most filters want mod-4 and a few even wants mod-16 input resolutions.

I have found the following order of processing reliable and reasonably fast (pseudocode):Source
De-interlace/IVTC
Crop
Resize
(De-noise)Filter

[theReal]

... and btw. compression is more effective when your video is W:8 H:8 (because of the block size).
Plus if you want to encode videos that are 100% compatible to all other computers and not only yours, better use W:32 H:16 (you can never be sure which graphics adapters are having overlay problems with weird resolutions)

[Sci-Fi-Fan]

i have the same problem with the log file, but from what i see it
appears to be a naming mismatch in that it creates the following
file in the 1st pass "s01e01_GKnot.log" but then tries to open this
log file "s01e01.log" in the 2nd pass which does not exist, hence the
error "Error: Could not open E:\THEINVISIBLEMAN_01\s01e01.log"
like others i have a freshly installed os and divx 5.03 pro
can anyone shed some light on this?

19:09:32: Started DivX5-First Pass: E:\THEINVISIBLEMAN_01\s01e01.avs
21:36:06: Finished DivX5-First Pass. Duration: 2 hours, 26 minutes, 33 seconds.
21:36:06: Trying to open Log-file.
21:36:06: Error: Could not open E:\THEINVISIBLEMAN_01\s01e01.log
21:36:06: Error: Could not count encoded Frames.
21:36:06: Speed: 0.000 Frames per Second.
21:36:06: WARNING: Number of counted frames differs from settings!
21:36:06: WARNING: Settings: 129570
21:36:06: WARNING: Counted: 0
21:36:06: WARNING: Difference: 129570
21:36:06: Correcting Bitrate...
21:36:06: Original Bitrate = 899 k(=1000)Bits/s
21:36:06: ERROR: Correction impossible.
21:36:06: Now encoding at 899 k(=1000)Bits/s

[hakko504]

Originally posted by Sci-Fi-Fan
like others i have a freshly installed os and divx 5.03 pro
can anyone shed some light on this?
Yes, by reading THIS STICKY (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48936) you'll find that GKnot v0.27 only supports DivX 5.02