Help: convert from DV-AVI to XviD using Gordian Knot

[punchball]

I have no idea if I should post this in the DV forum, the XviD forum or here...

I have made a movie with Adobe Premiere, in the DV-AVI format (probably type 1?). I now want to make an XviD file out of it. I've used Gordian Knot to create XviDs out of DVDs, using the guide from this site. Is there a guide that someone could point me to?

I would prefer to frameserve the DV-AVI video from Premiere to Gordian Knot, so I don't have to degrade quality by rendering it to an intermediate AVI file. I tried Debugmode Frameserver, but when I tried to start processing in GK, I got "Avisynth open failure: Undot: Supports YUY2 color format only". The Frameserver has a color space setting that I had set to RGB, but if I set it to YUY GK won't open the file at all.
Opening a DV-AVI file directly in GK doesn't work either.

I read somewhere that I should convert to DV-AVI type 2. But VirtualDub can actually open the file and encode to XviD without problem. The reason I want to use GK is mainly because it can set the aspect ratio (which I need to do), and because GK's settings GUI is better (and I just learned how to use it! :) ).

[stax76]

There is a sticky describing a technique you could use.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=41085

[Madibaman]

Someone who can help me with this problem?:

I have imported my DV tapes using NeroVision. I saved them as type 2, which AutoGK should support. It does for the video, but I get a message, that the source contains an unsupported audio format (1024 Kbps fffe 2ch).

Is there anyway I can recapture my DV tapes, that will ensure, that AutoGK supports both video and audio formats, or is there any way I can prepare the sourcefile to that end???

Best Regards,

Madibaman.

[punchball]

Original poster here. Finally got around to looking more into this. The sticky thread didn't really help me. But by poking around more on the forum, I found out that I need to create an .avs file containing these lines:
AviSource("movie.avi")
ConvertToYUY2
I also found the command DirectShowSource, and thought I might not need to use ConvertToYUY2 if I used DirectShowSource instead of AviSource. But I still had to use ConvertToYUY2 or I got the error described in my first post. Also I couldn't see any difference in the picture with the two commands. Can someone tell me what the difference is between them?

Also I'm not sure if I have type-1 or type-2. Is there any way to check? I can open the file fine in VirtualDub, does that mean that it's actually type-2?