DV to DivX and DV to XviD

[Doume]

I recently purchased a DivX standalone player (Yamada DVX 6000), and I am looking for a software (freeware if possible) allowing to do DivX from DV-AVI files.

Originally, I tried with VirtualDub (with Panasonic DV codec), but now, i am looking for a more "automatic" solution which would do compression tests, ... and which would help me to choose the resolution.

Up to now I just found DVX (www.planetdvb.net).

I am looking for other freewares to compare with DVX but all those I found only allow to make DivX from DVD, not from DV-AVI files.

Does anybody know another suitable freeware ?

Concerning the "non-free software", I tried the demo versions of "EO-Video" and "River Past Video Cleaner", but with both of them, the files where not palying correctly on my standalone player.

Does "Dr DivX" give good results for DV ?

Thank you in advance.

Doume

[nFury8]

What about Gordian Knot? Although I haven't used it for my DV materials, I believe it can accept avi input.

[jkwarras]

Originally posted by nFury8
What about Gordian Knot? Although I haven't used it for my DV materials, I believe it can accept avi input.

It does :) And works fine as an automated tool.

If you want more automatic procedure, try to use AutoGKnot, but I don't know if it accepts AVi-input :p

[snowcrash]

Gordian Knot does not accept Type-1 DV-AVI input unless you feed it in with an AVS script and DirectShowSource(). Even then, in my experience it does not work properly. I've been trying to encode video like this for a while with either XVID or DIVX. In both cases I get a resulting video with a portion at the beginning that is slowed down (frames are repeated). I've tried just about everything and I cannot get good results automating DV(type 2)->XVID conversion with GK. If someone wants to prove me wrong, I'd love to hear about it.

CORRECTION: I had originally written Type-2, but I meant to say Type-1. I always get the two confused. Type-1 is the one produced by the Microsoft codec and is the one I have trouble encoding with GK.

[bb]

Originally posted by jkwarras
If you want more automatic procedure, try to use AutoGKnot, but I don't know if it accepts AVi-input :p
AutoGK does not accept AVIs (DVD input only).

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[Doume]

I did the test, here is a copy of another thread I put on "gordian knot" forum :

I tried to use Gordian Knot to make a DivX file from a DV-AVI file.

I wrote a script containing the following

AviSource("C:\... .avi")
ConvertToYUY2

(Originally I tried with just DirectShowSource (C:\ ... .avi), but I got an error message and it did not work).

For the video it worked fine, but for the audio, I got my file in PCM and not in MP3-VBR as I had selected in Bitrate tab.

When I did "save and encode", the only "choice" I had was "Audio-processing disabled"

Does anybody know how to do to get directly an MP3 audio instead of PCM. I did not find what was wrong.

Another thing is that the DivX file I get seems to play fine on the PC (with Windows Media Player), but it does not play fine on my Yamada DVX 6600 player (seems to play "at variable speed")

It is may-be in relation with the problem Snowcrash mentions ??.

Thanks in advance.

Doume

[snowcrash]

Originally posted by Doume

When I did "save and encode", the only "choice" I had was "Audio-processing disabled"

Does anybody know how to do to get directly an MP3 audio instead of PCM. I did not find what was wrong.


What did you select as your audio source? It sounds like you are working with type-2 DV, which I haven't worked with, but I believe you should have your audio in a seperate WAV file.

[Doume]

Originally, I wanted to get the MP3 made by Gordian Knot directly from the DV-AVI file (which is type 2), but I could not find how to do.

So, I extracted the WAV from the DV-AVI with VirtualDub, and then I used this .wav file as an "external" audio file in Gordian Knot.

And by this way, the DivX file works, with both of the PC and the standalone player.

I still wonder wether GK can directly make the MP3 from the DV-AVI, which would be more simple, but anyway, this method works.

It seems that the problem of the "variable speed" (in fact, it plays, it stops, it plays again, it stops again) could be that the player cannot read correctly a DivX file in which there is a PCM audio.

I have been looking for such a software for a long time, thinking that Gordian Knot could not work with DV-AVI files (once I had tried to load directly a DV-AVI file and it did not work, I did not have the idea of trying through an AVS script).

It is a good new that it works.

Thanks everybody.

Doume