bwechner
15th September 2005, 08:13
Hey I gotta agree. AutoGK does look like THE tool for Xvid/DivX conversion allright.
Still, the one thing it's lacking and where it could serve to set global standards is if it had a splitting feature too. I'm often converting kids DVD's ately with loads of 10 minute epsiodes, you know, like Thomas the Tank Engine and such. They just archive so well as Xvids! But I lose the DVD menu of course, and it's a sequential stream. So I'd like to split the episodes out into individual AVIs.
I've played around with all manner of free an shareware for the job, but nothing does the job well, and nothing yet even does it well enough for me to bother.
Then I saw AVS Video Converter and it looks like a commercial AutoGK really, but includes a splittle. Even its splitter leaves something to be desired. They all work with single frame views egads.
What I'd see as ideal is a filmstrip approach. Lay out the original in a film strip, with each frame as a thumbnail that is scrollable. You need only display scene changes or key frames on the film spool, though ideally be able to play any one frame froward and backward a bit to make sure you have what you want (a lot of the split points a black sceeens then something fades in).
Either way, you wat only to generate a set of breakpoints. Be they time stamps or frame numbers. Then if AutoGK could accept a list of such breakpoints and use the output filename with a number appended for each new file when it reachs a beak point. Voila, single step conversion and splitting and suddenly life's a dream.
This can be done in two discrete parts.
The first: AutoGK accepts a list of breakpoints as described.
You can then compile that list yourself and just enter it into a dialog box for AutoGK. I could use VirtualDubMod for example to step through key frames and identify my spots, then note the frame numbers or times and feed them into AutoGK ater.
The second: an integrated film strip previewer as described above. Press abutton, it dsplayed the filmstrip. Find the frame syou want, mark them, close it and the list of breakpoints can be used to populate the list in the frist stage above.
Even if only the first were implemented, what dream. The second would set world standards in my mind.
How close is this description to something taht is both 1) in demand and 2) achievable?
Or am I way off the mark here. Does AutoGK already do this in some hidden feature I've not uncovered, or is it not on the radar ;-).
Still, the one thing it's lacking and where it could serve to set global standards is if it had a splitting feature too. I'm often converting kids DVD's ately with loads of 10 minute epsiodes, you know, like Thomas the Tank Engine and such. They just archive so well as Xvids! But I lose the DVD menu of course, and it's a sequential stream. So I'd like to split the episodes out into individual AVIs.
I've played around with all manner of free an shareware for the job, but nothing does the job well, and nothing yet even does it well enough for me to bother.
Then I saw AVS Video Converter and it looks like a commercial AutoGK really, but includes a splittle. Even its splitter leaves something to be desired. They all work with single frame views egads.
What I'd see as ideal is a filmstrip approach. Lay out the original in a film strip, with each frame as a thumbnail that is scrollable. You need only display scene changes or key frames on the film spool, though ideally be able to play any one frame froward and backward a bit to make sure you have what you want (a lot of the split points a black sceeens then something fades in).
Either way, you wat only to generate a set of breakpoints. Be they time stamps or frame numbers. Then if AutoGK could accept a list of such breakpoints and use the output filename with a number appended for each new file when it reachs a beak point. Voila, single step conversion and splitting and suddenly life's a dream.
This can be done in two discrete parts.
The first: AutoGK accepts a list of breakpoints as described.
You can then compile that list yourself and just enter it into a dialog box for AutoGK. I could use VirtualDubMod for example to step through key frames and identify my spots, then note the frame numbers or times and feed them into AutoGK ater.
The second: an integrated film strip previewer as described above. Press abutton, it dsplayed the filmstrip. Find the frame syou want, mark them, close it and the list of breakpoints can be used to populate the list in the frist stage above.
Even if only the first were implemented, what dream. The second would set world standards in my mind.
How close is this description to something taht is both 1) in demand and 2) achievable?
Or am I way off the mark here. Does AutoGK already do this in some hidden feature I've not uncovered, or is it not on the radar ;-).