Tweak and re-run movie.avs?

[laserfan]

I run AGK in auto-width mode, and normally when I convert my 44minute HD files using Xvid, I set the size (for 2-pass) at 340Mb, and this gives me a file something less than 720.

Well, I just converted a program which resulted in a 752 width file, which my Media Player program doesn't like (needs to be 720 or less). As I look at the movie.avs file produced by AGK, it looks like I need only change

out_width = 752

to

out_width = 720

and re-run the script somehow within of course the context of the agk_tmp files already created (and which I've saved) for the output?

Is this possible, to re-start somehow the point at which AGK invokes the movie.avs script, and get a faster output as a result? If I could do this, it would reduce my processing time from the previous total of 4.5 hours to just over 2 hours. TIA for any advice or knowledge, even if it is "not possible"!!!

p.s. I did JUST NOW look again carefully at the Advanced Options dialog and see that there is a Maximum Width there!!!!? Can't believe I've never noticed/realized it before. Still, for this one attempt, is it possible to "do over" w/new avs?

[unskinnyboy]

No, you cannot re-start AutoGK. However, you can modify the movie.avs, load it into VirtualDubMoD and encode again. If you haven't attempted another encode after the above said one, the XviD settings set by AutoGK for this wouldn't have changed in the encoder dialog (including the target file-size). So it becomes easier for you to set the encoder settings. But keep in mind that you will need to manually mux in the audio (you can find it in the agk_tmp dir) and do the splitting yourself later.

If the above sounds complicated, you know what to do -> redo the encode in AutoGK.

[laserfan]

Actually I did know that I'd have to mux the audio, though I don't know what you mean about "doing the splitting later"?

Guess I will fiddle with this a little bit as a learning exercise, then probably just re-run the thing from scratch.

[unskinnyboy]

Actually I did know that I'd have to mux the audio, though I don't know what you mean about "doing the splitting later"?
Nevermind, my bad. Your target size is only 340 MB, so no splitting needed. I was thinking in terms of the need to split to CD-sizes (n x 700) like we usually do.

[laserfan]

Oh, sure, I get it--thanks for following up!

I opened Vdubmod and tried to run the movie.avs--it appeared that it was going to make an "uncompressed" file or something so I aborted. Not sure I know what's going on but I think I will re-run it from scratch...

[unskinnyboy]

Ahem, you have to choose 'Fast Recompress', choose the codec as XviD and set the compression options (more info in the Doom9 guides accessible from the main page). But letting AutoGK redo this is much faster than for you to have to go thru this learning curve.