Reencode An AVI using GKNOT

[billharrison]

Hi everyone. I have been trying to do some reencoding using Virtual Dub, and it has given me nothing but trouble! I originally created the movies to fit on 2 cd's using Gknot, which was a great program that gave me great quality with no trouble! But now I want to put a few of them on SINGLE disks, and I was curious if anyone had had any experience with this. Using vdub i was able to reencode them, but could not encode the credits seperately etc.

If anyone knows how to open an AVI in Gknot and then reencode it, let me know!

Thanks

[jggimi]

There's an AVI --> GKnot guide in the FAQ. It's DivX3 focused, but it could give you some guidelines on re-encoding.

http://gknot.doom9.org/avi.html

[billharrison]

Thanks for the post, but I have already looked at that, and it seems to be oriented towards regular .AVI's, and not DIVX movies.

After much fiddling, it was possible to reencode my movies using 2 pass in Vdub. I was told this was impossible due to the fact that the audio in my movies is VBR, but it actually worked fine. The problem was not with the audio, but with the video! It looks like I am going to have to just Rerip all the movies off the DVD's again, and start from scratch. Even though the rips I am reencoding off of are very crisp and clear with no noticable artifacts, the reencodes are coming out VERY blurry, the backgrounds mainly, the main characters are crisp. I am guessing this has something to do with the fact that they are being REENCODED. Darn, was hoping to save some time!

Thanks anyways!

[billharrison]

Oh yes, and a secondary question, perhaps not for this forum. Lets say I went a different route, and wanted to store my movies on 2 or so disks. Is there a way to split the AVI into 2 files to be put on 2 disks? This is not a stupid repetetive question before I get jumped on ;)

I am talking about "Archiving" it in 2 parts, IE ZIP etc, and then recombining the movie on the harddrive to watch it. Not splitting the "Movie", but splitting the "File" - if that makes any sense to you ;)

[UHT]

erm yeah use winzip or winrar and choose to have it in 2 files...as for the 2discs to 1disc, just forget it..it will look like crap