The future of GKnot?!

[snowbeach]

First of all a big thank you to all people that have worked on GK 0.28! Thank you! One more time it is a great prog! :)

And I like the new r4r and the GUI. But hopefully the successor of GKnot is only temporarily called r4r? Leave the name GordianKnot, it is a known prog for DVD reauthoring and probably the best I know! Combine GKnot and its features to the GUI of r4r (or v.v. ;) ), but leave the name GordianKnot! If you hear r4r, you think about, erhh ok just another tool, nothing special! But if you hear GordianKnot, it is more, it is a community that uses this prog! It is the beginning of DVD reauthoring! :)

[manono]

Hi snowbeach-

Nice to hear from you again. I'm kind of torn in 2 directions when thinking about what you said. On the one hand, if you've read your Alexander The Great, then you'll know what a wonderful and appropriate name TheWEF came up with when he thought up Gordian Knot. And as it grew from it's bitrate calc and crop/resize beginnings into the full featured front end for encoding that it is today, and as more and more people used it and found out how good it really was, the program became the best and best known and most respected of all the encoding front end apps.

Robot4Rip isn't quite as catchy a name, but because what it does is quite different from GKnot, it does have to have a different name. I don't know if the plan is to integrate the two into a one-click and forget type program, similar to what you can do with DVD2SVCD, but I don't think so. But if they are to be integrated, then I agree that the GKnot name should be the one that's kept. But I also think that, just as GKnot grew to be loved and respected over time, so R4R, as more people start to use it and realize that it saves a lot of time when doing the initial boring parts of a DVD conversion, will also come to be a respected part of the ripper's arsenal. "From little acorns mighty oak trees grow", as they say.

I just wish I could figure out how to set up the audio preferences to do such things as convert AC3 to lower bitrates, make 1.0 mono audio from dual mono audio, use different audio bitrates, convert fps, etc. Maybe someone will write a FAQ. Wait, that's my job! :) Thanks for writing. Food for thought.