Encoding Problems!!

[xx_s1lv3r_xx]

ok.. I've been using GKnot for quite awhile now and making great quality DivX (4.12) movies.
But now I've started trying to encode the movie 'Can't Hardly Wait' (PAL Australia 25fps - interlaced.)

I'm pretty sure the movie is actually interlaced seeing there are horizontal lines visable in high motion areas of the film.
Force Field causes the movie to goto 20fps (not really viable)...

But my problem is when I try and run a compressibility check, it gets to 99% and then a fatal error... and virtual dub closes... upon closer inspection the log file reads as follows


Job Movie2 started
Audio 1, calc: 113046 kb
Audio 1, disabled, no recalc. - you probably want to add this track later.

Started DivX4-First Pass: E\DivX\GORDIA~1\LastCompCheck.avs
Finished DivX4-First Pass. Duration 8 minutes, 26 seconds.
Trying to open Log-file.
Error: Could not open F:\DIVX\canthardlywait_5_perc_D4_NeutralBicubic_544x304.log
Error: Could not count encoded Frames.
Speed 0.000 Frames per Second

Done
etc etc...

now what could be happening there?

I've also tried running just the single pass or both pass function, no deinterlacing, fast or smart, and none work... same problem.

Some help would be REALLY REALLY appreciated.. I want this movie bad!

thanks in advance
Silver

[dragoman]

Hi,

Hmmm, that's strange. Almost by definition PAL movies are not interlaced....oh, well, if you say it is.

Why change the framerate at all? Use a deinterlacer like Decomb (or try the deinterlacers in Gknot) before encoding. It should take out interlaced frames and leave it at same framerate.

Strange a PAL movie interlaced.....

dragoman

[xx_s1lv3r_xx]

definitely interlaced...
and tried the Gknot deinterlacing features with no success..
and unsure of how to use the Decomb plugin..

would that stop me from getting these ???

Error: Could not count encoded frames ???