6 failures, lockups, unsupported formats?!?!

[bralex]

Sorry, couldn't fit useful info into the subject line!

Here's my tale of woe. I'm using GK, trying to compress some movies to run off my hard drive while I'm on the road. My goal is ~1.5 GB per movie, so I'm not trying to fit them onto CDs or anything.

I've tried now 6 times with 3 different movies, all have failed one way or another. The movies: Pleasantville, Amelie (with subtitles), Shawshank Redemption. My computer: Sony GRX670 laptop, P4 2.0, 512MB, 40 MB HD, using 80 GB firewire drive for this stuff, WinXP home.

Pleasantville and Shawshank have clean log files, but will not play. Parenthetically, Win Media Player won't play anything (unsupported format), I thought Divx 5 installed a codec for it? Anyway, Divx Player 2.0 Alpha plays about 3 seconds of the film then pixellates and locks up hard.

Amelie's log file says "Final Avi size smaller than intermediate files" and nothing will open it at all.

There's so many things that could be wrong, and after 6 tries and I don't know, 16 hours of work? I am getting frustrated. I checked the "preview" button in GK right before "save and encode" and all movies looked fine, can someone help? I'm happy to post more info, just tell me what is needed!

Thanks from a frustrated noob...

Scott

[CaPPyD]

From what you've told us, we know two things for certain. Your source is good and your AVS is good. Final AVI File size blah blah error message is fine and not a problem. You state that the log files are fine, can you post one of them so that we can be sure?

Another thing to check is if the codecs are installed properly. Also, when encoding to DivX5, please be sure that DivX4 is not also installed on your system. Try opening the file with GSPOT and determining what codec it is using.

And one last check, try opening the finished file in VDub and seeing if you can scroll around in the file.

Hope this helps! :devil:

[jggimi]

If you are running Gknot prior to 0.27, the order of install affected many people. Gknot 0.26.1 and earlier included DivX 4, and lots of folks inadvertantly installed the full Gknot after installing DivX 5, which would cause lots of different problems.

Some folks have had trouble with Gknot 0.27 by not installing both the rip and system packs.

You can test to see if DivX is installed properly by starting VirtualDub, then using the Video...Compression menu command to see if DivX 5 is in the list.

You can test an .avs script to see if that is the problem by opening it with any .avi player. If you get video, and it's the proper length, then the .avs script is ok.

[bralex]

OK, here is the Amelie log file for your consideration. I downloaded and installed GK 0.27 yesterday or the day before, I forget which. I did not install Divx4, just the defaults 3.x and 5.02.

Vdub does have the DivX5.02 codec in the list.

Opening Amelie in VDub forces a check: "reconstructing missing index block (aggressive mode)" - somehow the file is damaged? Picture is awful. AVS looks great and has all subtitles in the place I wanted them.

Opening Shawshank in VDub works but looks terrible - ghosting, pixel blocks, etc. AVS looks great.

Opening Pleasantville is a mess, has to reconstruct index plus some chunks are all black, others washed in red. I think I really munged this one, AVS won't open either.

Forget Pleasantville - it is deeply messed up and I will try it again.

Thanks for the help so far. What else can I try?

[bralex]

I hate to bump my own post (I think it's pretty rude, myself), but I am still holding out for more suggestions. Anyone? Again, sorry for bumping.

Scott

[CaPPyD]

Sorry for not responding, i've been on holidays...

Well, the LOG file looks good... As we now know, the AVS is good. So it's somewhere in the encode.

If you havent deleted everything, try opening the file "E:\AMELIE\VIDEO_TS\amelie_proj_Movie.avi" and see what it looks like. If this file looks good, then something is happening when the credits are appended. If it looks terrible, then it's something in the encode.

My best suggestion at that point would be to remove all video codecs from the system, delete the GKNOT registry info, delete the GKNOT folder and then reinstall the two GKNOT packs.

Hopefully someone else can pipe in if you need help deleting the video codecs, my memory is not that great and i cant remember how to do it at the moment.