xvid problems need help

[sn4k1z]

I seem to have a hell of a time with this one :(
SBC was great but for some odd reason I get a lot of encoding after effects (I think that what it's called?) after the movie is encoded with SBC so I decided to try out xvid. Well I done that, the video was great but to my surprise it wasn't xvid but divx4.11???
I did have a problem with virtualdub since it kept shutting down after I pressed start as stated in the guide. So I had to go to the g.knot and add a job and start from there, now where am I going wrong here? I uninstalled divx4.11 so I will try it again. What am I doing wrong here? I don't know why the v.dub isn't encoding but keeps shutting down, but besides that is there anything else possible? PLease help.

Sn4k1z

[zulu]

first, u can't encode to xvid by using gknot.
gknot is for sbc and divx encoding only.

your encoded video may be identified as divx4 because you accidently set the FOURCC code to DIVX. select 'XVID' as FOURCC in the codec settings.

your virtualdub problem may be caused by an outdated virtualdub version, try the latest release from www.virtualdub.org.

[sn4k1z]

I followed the xvid guide here on doom9 and I tried it with the newer vdub and same thing happends it crashes and won't encode.
I did the following
1. Setting in gknot and did the avs file
2. load avs file in vdub and set video to fast recompress
3. went to compression and chose xvid and did the config on 2pass 1st pass - added that to the job operation
4. back to compression and did the config for 2 pass 2nd pass and again I added that to job operation
5. I went to the jobs menu and pressed start and all I got was a crash.

Is there any better guided then here? or is there something off with my system?

[Teegedeck]

When you experience problems you always have to make some effort to track down the reasons. First, you have to break up your encoding-process into segments to see which part of it didn't work. For example: Don't use the joblist. Does simple quantizer-based one-pass-encoding work with XviD? If yes, perhaps you've just messed up your settings for 2nd pass. Try a manual 1st pass, if that works, try a manual 2nd pass. Or even better, try to do a one-pass with DivX4 - perhaps you just have some error in your .avs. Even easier, open your script in MediaPlayer, if there's anything wrong with it, you'll see an error-message that you can't see if you're just opening the script in VDub. And so on and so on.

Good luck!

[sn4k1z]

that is what I get when I try to encode xvid, I tried it on my other os system which is win2k and if only had divx5 and xvid installed with g.knot so it must be something with the software that's screwy or I don't have something installed like I should. It doesn't allow even for a single pass and it crashes every time. ANy ideas? My comp is.

T-bird 1.4
500mb ddram
geforce 3
winXP or win2k

aspi drivers aren't installed but I don't think I need those for this, so any suggestion would be of great benefit.

[-h]

I would suggest going into XviD's configuration dialog (via VirtualDub) and hitting the "Load Defaults" button.

After that don't try an encode via GKnot, just load an AVI in VirtualDub, set the compressor to be XviD (with Fast recompress enabled instead of Full Processing), and save a new AVI.

-h

[sn4k1z]

Kilted Yatsman

Thanx a lot, I loaded the defaults and it worked, how wierd?? I don't know why that would do it and not the original settings that were installed like how could the defaults get screwed up before I did anything to them? Well it worked so far with pass one so I have mt fingers crossed for pass 2 :) thanx again.

sn4k1z