Multipass Problem

[Zigman]

I am having a problem with the multipass funtion on divx 5.05 in G-knot. I can only do a 3 pass encode or less. Anything over that 4, 5 or 6 passes gives me an error, saying that G-knot.exe cannot be found. Anybody else getting this error using the multipass function in divx about 3 passes?

[tiki4]

Yes. I have the same problem. Also a second audio track is never muxed into the final .AVI.

I'm still testing that, so if anyone else has the same problems we can make a bug report on SF.

tiki4

[valnar]

As with GKnot .27 and now with .28, I never mux with their built-in functions. Use AVIMux. 'Tis much better.

Robert

[Zigman]

Tiki, just to ask, in what case would you need to mux a second audio track in with a movie? I know about his function but have never used it, due to I have never seen a movie with two audio tracks?

[CaptainCarrot]

Tiki, just to ask, in what case would you need to mux a second audio track in with a movie? I know about his function but have never used it, due to I have never seen a movie with two audio tracks?
So english is probably your mother language and you don't care about director's or actor's comments?
I for example do many movies with at least german and english sound, and I've read about people (in this forum) who did movies with 5 soundtracks and 12 subtitle tracks.

[Zigman]

So if you do a second audio, does that mux to the same avi or a seperate one. Becasue if you muxed english as audio 1, and German as audio 2, it would just garble together right? Or once you mux them with the movie can you choose which language you want? Or does it mux them seperate, or maybe not at all? That second audio track has always been confusing to me? And yes you are right english is my mother language so i have had no need to use other languages, but I figured if I was french or German or whatever, I would just mux that language in with the movie, if it was offered on the DVD. Where am I going wrong here?

[tiki4]

As has been assumed, I'm usually muxing English and German audio into the same AVI. You need MMSwitch filter to play that AVI back however. It's on doom9's software site for ever.

As also was mentioned already AviMuxGUI is the preferred way to mux audio in AVI nowadays. The muxing of a second audio track is just a feature that worked in GKnot up to 0.27 and doesn't work in 0.28 through all alphas, betas I tested and also the final version. I think for muxing audio VirtualDubMod should perform equally to AviMuxGUI (except for some bug it seems for CBR MP3).

To sum up. If people find the same bugs that I have found (multipass and 2nd audio track muxing) and consider that as a bug, then we should make a bug report on SF. That is the reason I brought it up here.

tiki4