AGK and setting video resolution

[mpholic]

I have some questions about AGK as it pertains to creating videos for my Creative Zen. I successfully use AGK 2.45 and Xvid to create videos from DVD for my Creative Zen with no problems (well maybe just one).

Question 1

Is there any way to specify a SPECIFIC video resolution. I know you can specify a width and it somehow calculates a height which MOST of the time works fine but in a few of my videos the aspect ratio is off. The height is too tall creating slightly strected and narrowed people and objects.

Question 2

I know AGK automatically selects the preferred settings to use to create videos with but is there some way to view or some log file to look up that shows what all those settings were? Why? Because I thought about trying to use Gordian Knot in it's manual format for more control over aspect ratio.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[CWR03]

Is there any way to specify a SPECIFIC video resolution.
No. You can select a width and force 16:9, 4:3 or original under the hidden options (Ctrl + F9), but you can't manually control both height and width.

I know AGK automatically selects the preferred settings to use to create videos with but is there some way to view or some log file to look up that shows what all those settings were?
There is a log created, or you can open the file with GSpot which will tell you what you need to know.

There are some recent threads for Gordian Knot "helpers" that allow current versions of things like DivX to be used. I still use plain Gordian Knot and x264 myself.

[weaver4]

Are you planning on supporting the offical 1.2.1 xvid release or still 2.X?

[manono]

I don't think CWR03 is planning on supporting anything, since he's not the developer. If you have any suggestions, perhaps mention them in this thread:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=143146

[yetanotherid]

If you're wanting to convert video for something like a Zen I'd consider using a different program. You'll find either Super or AnyVideoConverter with Google and both let you specify the exact resolution. I'm not sure they'd produce as good a quality video as AutoGK, but if it's just for a Zen....

[citanuL]

Please correct me if this method is flawed:

It probably can be done easily using StaxRip but,
You could specify both width and height in AutoGK if you also use AGKPal [tweaker] alongside which pauses the job after the audio encoding pass and allows you to edit the Codec options and the AVS pattern. If you know how to write regular expressions, wish I understood how, then change the "out_height = ..." parts, otherwise you have the opportunity to edit the .avs file[s] in agk_tmp using notepad by, for example, replacing the following section with "out_height = 288":
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)

You will have to be at the ready to click on AGKPal's window to pause, as it will continue after 30secs if you don't. And, if you are encoding for a specific size, you will need to edit more than once [the other .avs file] when AGKPal appears again.