MarkV
21st July 2006, 12:40
Dear All,
I’m having some troubles with custom size encoding. I checked the threads that could have dealt with my problem but I couldn’t find any answer. Anyway, if the subject has actually been discussed somewhere forgive my slip and please give me the link.
I used AutoGK 2.26 till the first week of July and everything has always worked well. Then I installed version 2.27 and all my problems started from there. I always use the XviD codec and usually choose a custom size of about 900 MB. The point is that all the resulting target size AVIs are undersized. I read in the tutorial that this can happen as a result of some resolution settings but this is not my case because I always use the default Auto width and the compression test results are always in the ordinary range 60-80%. Some AVIs come out so heavily reduced (about 200 MB) that Windows Media Player cannot even render the files. Surprisingly, for some movies it seems that the more I increase the value in the custom size box, the more the final size moves downward. I find it difficult to understand the reason for all that, considering that the log file doesn’t seem to report anything odd. The initial definition of audio and video sizes is done according to the total target size I chose, and the expected quality correctly increases if I raise the custom size. Obviously the final AVIs don’t meet the quality value reported in the log file, since quality evaluation ends up by being based on a size that is only theoretical and much larger than the one of the final file. I don’t know if this problem may happen to me using DivX as well, I haven’t tried yet. Anyway, I prefer XviD and AutoGK 2.26 never caused me such troubles.
Hope someone can give me a few hints on how to remove this bad functioning.
Thank you for your attention.
I’m having some troubles with custom size encoding. I checked the threads that could have dealt with my problem but I couldn’t find any answer. Anyway, if the subject has actually been discussed somewhere forgive my slip and please give me the link.
I used AutoGK 2.26 till the first week of July and everything has always worked well. Then I installed version 2.27 and all my problems started from there. I always use the XviD codec and usually choose a custom size of about 900 MB. The point is that all the resulting target size AVIs are undersized. I read in the tutorial that this can happen as a result of some resolution settings but this is not my case because I always use the default Auto width and the compression test results are always in the ordinary range 60-80%. Some AVIs come out so heavily reduced (about 200 MB) that Windows Media Player cannot even render the files. Surprisingly, for some movies it seems that the more I increase the value in the custom size box, the more the final size moves downward. I find it difficult to understand the reason for all that, considering that the log file doesn’t seem to report anything odd. The initial definition of audio and video sizes is done according to the total target size I chose, and the expected quality correctly increases if I raise the custom size. Obviously the final AVIs don’t meet the quality value reported in the log file, since quality evaluation ends up by being based on a size that is only theoretical and much larger than the one of the final file. I don’t know if this problem may happen to me using DivX as well, I haven’t tried yet. Anyway, I prefer XviD and AutoGK 2.26 never caused me such troubles.
Hope someone can give me a few hints on how to remove this bad functioning.
Thank you for your attention.