jimarick
16th April 2004, 13:33
Hi,
Basically Ive been having some troubles with GK and AutoGK. I have installed the Gordian Knot Codec Pack 1.6 and GK 0.28.8 and AutoGK 1.17b.
The first problem was that all videos encoded in GK had audio dramatically out of sync. They are from Episodic DVDs ripped using file mode in DVD decrypter, which i then put through robot4rip which basically just used the Vstrip function to extract each seperate PGC into its own 2 vobs. I have the newest Xvid 1.0 Build4 installed.
I eventually realised that the Variable MP3s that GK encoded during the ripping process were 1-2 minutes shorter than the AC3 they were encoded from. I attempted to join the original ac3 with the film_movie file and hey presto, it was all in sync. To attempt to correct this problem, i reinstalled GK and the codec pack. It worked for a couple of files and then had the problem again. So I then installed the new BeSweet version into the GK directory... i think it has worked but have only encoded 2 files so far. However, this problem did NOT occur when using AutoGK instead of GK. What was i doing wrong? In GK I selected the AC3 file, and made sure the delay was ok, made it recalculate video bitrate and delete wav. I selected either expert parameters OR mp3 128kb/s average bitrate. Neither worked.
Second problem which happened is that since GK wasnt working i resorted to AutoGK, a great piece of work, but little too simple for me. Anyway, it encoded the audio and video in sync, but AutoGK failed to recognise the DVD was interlaced so the encoded AVI does have some lines at parts where there is a lot of movement, only noticeable when it is white and a colour moving over one another. The funny think is usually if i encode without deinterlacing then it is VERY noticeable in the encoded AVI, but this was only at parts with a dark colour or white over one another. I hazard a guess that this is a problem with AutoGK's coding routines itself, and how it recognises the VOB as Interlaced or Progressive.
The final problem is that now GK has decided to get the audio in sync (i think) the video it encodes in a 350mbAVI. (Xvid - only chroma motion and VHQ1 and MSP 6 - Ultra High.) has i think a reduced framerate, well it looks flickery when anyone on the screen moves. I tried a select 10 seconds of the start of the same troubled dvd2avi project and there was no flickering. So it is just in the 350mb version, both with the same Xvid Settings. This is all after I reinstalled GK and deleted all the old registry settings.
Any ideas would be very welcome... if you have got to this part of the post I thank u already:)
Hope anyone can help,
James
Basically Ive been having some troubles with GK and AutoGK. I have installed the Gordian Knot Codec Pack 1.6 and GK 0.28.8 and AutoGK 1.17b.
The first problem was that all videos encoded in GK had audio dramatically out of sync. They are from Episodic DVDs ripped using file mode in DVD decrypter, which i then put through robot4rip which basically just used the Vstrip function to extract each seperate PGC into its own 2 vobs. I have the newest Xvid 1.0 Build4 installed.
I eventually realised that the Variable MP3s that GK encoded during the ripping process were 1-2 minutes shorter than the AC3 they were encoded from. I attempted to join the original ac3 with the film_movie file and hey presto, it was all in sync. To attempt to correct this problem, i reinstalled GK and the codec pack. It worked for a couple of files and then had the problem again. So I then installed the new BeSweet version into the GK directory... i think it has worked but have only encoded 2 files so far. However, this problem did NOT occur when using AutoGK instead of GK. What was i doing wrong? In GK I selected the AC3 file, and made sure the delay was ok, made it recalculate video bitrate and delete wav. I selected either expert parameters OR mp3 128kb/s average bitrate. Neither worked.
Second problem which happened is that since GK wasnt working i resorted to AutoGK, a great piece of work, but little too simple for me. Anyway, it encoded the audio and video in sync, but AutoGK failed to recognise the DVD was interlaced so the encoded AVI does have some lines at parts where there is a lot of movement, only noticeable when it is white and a colour moving over one another. The funny think is usually if i encode without deinterlacing then it is VERY noticeable in the encoded AVI, but this was only at parts with a dark colour or white over one another. I hazard a guess that this is a problem with AutoGK's coding routines itself, and how it recognises the VOB as Interlaced or Progressive.
The final problem is that now GK has decided to get the audio in sync (i think) the video it encodes in a 350mbAVI. (Xvid - only chroma motion and VHQ1 and MSP 6 - Ultra High.) has i think a reduced framerate, well it looks flickery when anyone on the screen moves. I tried a select 10 seconds of the start of the same troubled dvd2avi project and there was no flickering. So it is just in the 350mb version, both with the same Xvid Settings. This is all after I reinstalled GK and deleted all the old registry settings.
Any ideas would be very welcome... if you have got to this part of the post I thank u already:)
Hope anyone can help,
James