Gordian Knot with DV-AVI files

[Doume]

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.

Thanks in advance.

Doume

[Doume]

In addition to my previous question : is there a guide explaining the use of Gordian Knot with AVI files ?

Thanks in advance

[Doume]

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").

When I do "save and encode" on GK, i see the DivX 5.1.1 codec, but when I load the DivX file I get on Gspot, it says me it that the codec is "DX50, DivX 5.0" and that this codec is not installed on my machine.

If I load it in Avicheck, it also says it is DX50 codec.

Is this normal ?

Thanks in advance

[Angelus]

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.

What you could try doing is just encode the wav externally using Besweet that comes with GK. I do that will all my captures after I extract the wav from the capture file.

Gordian Knot is able to open up avi files encoded with either DivX or Xvid directly. It is when you have external footage (like from a camcorder or from a TV Capture) that you have to use an Avisynth Script.

For the "variable speed" problem, you could check both the source avi file and the encoded avi file in VDub and check out the Frame Rate of both...if the FPS is outta wack, then that can cause playback problems.

[Doume]

Here is a copy of a reply I posted in "DV" forum :

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