Delete or save intermediate files if re-encoding?

[Yo]

If one encodes a movie with AutoGK, and is unhappy with the results and decides to re-do it a different quality level or file size, or just decides to re-do it anyhow at a different resolution, etc., and still has all the temporary intermediate files that AutoGK created on the first install, is it better to:

1. Delete all those intermediate files, and start from scratch from the ripping by DVDDecrypter?

or

2. Keep all those files, and re-encode to the same target directory? (Of course still starting with opening the source material that was ripped with DVDDecrypter, but would AutoGK recognize the intermediate files it had created before, the indexing etc., but just make the necessary changes for the new resolution or quality level, or whatever was changed?)

or

3. Not re-start with AutoGk, but take the intermediate files it created and open in one of the programs that AutoGK uses, like VirtualDub, for further processing. (If this option, further details on how to go about it would be helpful.)

Thank you.

[len0x]

number 2, but all intermediate files will be deleted by AutoGK itself. It cannot reuse them.

[Yo]

Originally posted by len0x
number 2, but all intermediate files will be deleted by AutoGK itself. It cannot reuse them.

If it does not re-use them, why #2 rather than #1?

After an AutoGK encode I do see some files left behind by AutoGK, different than the original DVDDecrypter files, and the target .avi file. Some are in a subdirectory called something like autogk.tmp, and others directly in the target directory. But these cannot be re-used by AGK in re-encoding the movie?

[manono]

If it does not re-use them, why #2 rather than #1?

To save you from having to decrypt the vobs again.

But these cannot be re-used by AGK in re-encoding the movie?

len0x already said no.

[Yo]

Originally posted by manono
If it does not re-use them, why #2 rather than #1?

To save you from having to decrypt the vobs again.



I thought that was clear, it's obvious to not delete the files created by DVD Decrypter, if one might have to re-do the movie. I was referring to the files created by AutoGK. I guess if they are not at all used in any manner in a re-do, one might as well delete them and start over from scratch, of course from the files created by DVDDecrypter.