AGK cuts off at sides.

[avdw]

Whenever I convert a DVD-movie to Xvid/DivX using AutoGK, it cuts off almost 1 cm at both left and right sides of the movie.
All settings are default, I tried "Auto Width", "Fixed Width"... I tried settings AR to "Original", to "16:9" , to "4:3", I tried "Standalone support : ESS" , I didn't use any autocrop options.

This is just horrible, whatever convert I try using AGK, it eats away movie-content at left and right. Horrible.

[avdw]

Just for info, these are my settings :

http://i7.tinypic.com/5xh5iz5.jpg
http://i7.tinypic.com/4p1r2ag.jpg
http://i12.tinypic.com/62h5yz7.jpg

:stupid:

[CWR03]

Check the box next to "Tune auto crop parameters" and set the threshold to 0.

[Honeyko]

Do this:

1. Play the movie in, say, VLC, at standard resolution.
2. Wait for scene with clear edges, then Pause, then snapshot.
3. Open snapshot in pic-editor and count bad pixels on each edge.
4. Autocrop, Threshold 0, Force crop....enter your numbers.

Note: Some DVD videos (usually documentaries and interview extras with lots of merged-together sub-pieces) have differing levels of "edge crappiness" depending upon where you are, so take more than one screenclip from more than one place in the film. If you encode to near the video's original size, your product can look subjectively better than the original.

[manono]

Horrible.
In order to maintain the AR, after cropping away the black it's often necessary to crop away some of the active video, perhaps up to around 2% or so. I don't consider it horrible at all. Better to crop a little from the left and right rather than from the top and bottom, especially with a very widescreen movie.

And as Honeyko mentioned, sometimes the amount of black on the left and right sides isn't consistent throughout the entire video, and it will all get cropped away.

[avdw]

Well, I've tried every tip posted here.

It's just a simple movie, besides using VirtualDubMod cropping I foudn out the black border are perfectly consistent (as with 99.9% of DVDs), I wonder why you guys are trying to protect AGK's inability to preserve the actual movie, and come up with such an unexisting thing ?

Anyway, I've compared the resulting AVI file with the one generated by avi.NET, and I conclude :

Auto Gordian Knot is out. avi.NET, while being very limited in configurability, now this author knows how to get things done without cheating on the user.

But thanks for the help anyway.

FYI :

Compressed with avi.NET:
http://i23.tinypic.com/23hx8x5.jpg

Compressed with AGK: (See what's missing at left & right ;)
http://i22.tinypic.com/muy2ow.jpg