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BrokenBrick
15th January 2004, 06:25
I have used AutoGK to convert 10-12 DVD's so far, works great, and quality is excellent. I used to do things the hard way, but I find it more enjoyable to make a few clicks and have it all done for me :) The only problem is I can't convert Gnot AVI's directly to MPEG, like I could with films I converted with FlaskMPEG. My movies are currently being outputted to Divxand I was attempting to use TMPGENc to convert them to MPEG. Could I get an MPEG-2 plugin for the V-dub mod that AutoGK uses, and then open my finished AVI's there, and save them as MPEG?
hakko504
15th January 2004, 09:07
Sounds like you should be using DVD2SVCD instead of GKnot. That will give you MPEG video instead of AVI, without having to take the unnecessary and quality reducing step via AVI.
jggimi
15th January 2004, 17:16
If you really do need to make the AVI -> MPEG-2 conversion, Doom9 has plenty of guides (http://www.doom9.org/conversionguides.htm).
BrokenBrick
16th January 2004, 04:50
Well, I want to have the AVI's backed up on my hard drive in any case, so that if my VCD's get scratched I can just reencode the AVI's to VCD format. For now I will experiment with VDub I guess. I have loaded GK AVI's in it before, it just complains about the audio is all. I believe I may still be able to use to to save them to MPEG though, I'll keep you posted
hakko504
16th January 2004, 08:49
Originally posted by BrokenBrick
Well, I want to have the AVI's backed up on my hard drive in any case, so that if my VCD's get scratched I can just reencode the AVI's to VCD format. For now I will experiment with VDub I guess. I have loaded GK AVI's in it before, it just complains about the audio is all. I believe I may still be able to use to to save them to MPEG though, I'll keep you posted Then why not save the MPEG's themselves on the HD :confused:
Blue_MiSfit
27th January 2004, 11:52
If you're just gonna save everything in VCD format, then encode straight to VCD! don't waste time/quality doing a MPEG2->DivX->VCD encode. Going from a lossy compression format like DivX to MPEG will result in terrible quality (doom9s guides even say so :) ).

good luck
~misfit