Auto Gordian Knot: current version 2.55

[mwvirk]

@mwvirk: Think about using StaxRip ...

any reason.... when i want these in auto gknot...

[manono]

Well, Haubi does have a point. One of the reasons AutoGK was developed was to provide for beginners an easy way to encode for standalone DVD/MPEG-4 players. As far as I know, there are no standard DVD/MPEG-4 players that can play MP4 or X.264 videos yet. If that situation changes, len0x, if he ever decides to do more work on AutoGK, may add in support for other formats.

[mwvirk]

Well, Haubi does have a point. One of the reasons AutoGK was developed was to provide for beginners an easy way to encode for standalone DVD/MPEG-4 players. As far as I know, there are no standard DVD/MPEG-4 players that can play MP4 or X.264 videos yet. If that situation changes, len0x, if he ever decides to do more work on AutoGK, may add in support for other formats.


ok... all clear about .mp4 or x264,, but why Len0x is not activating .divx option in "Advance Setting"

moreover,,, is it possible to upgrade auto gknot with latest supporting tools... thnx

[nekrosoft13]

would it be possible to add an option to allow to set bitrate?

instead of size or quality setting, just to say that all files encoded to a specific bitrate?

[unskinnyboy]

would it be possible to add an option to allow to set bitrate?

instead of size or quality setting, just to say that all files encoded to a specific bitrate?No, because the development of AutoGK has ceased and the author is adding no more new features. I suggest you use a Bitrate Calculator to get what you want. Input the bitrate you want, get the corresponding estimated target size, enter that into AutoGK and encode. Of course, you'd have to do the same for all your source files, unless they are all of the same duration and frame rate.

[nekrosoft13]

i was thinking about converting about about 50 music videos, they are all different lenghts

[manono]

Then don't worry about bitrate. Different videos will compress differently and will produce results of wildly varying quality if all done for the same bitrate. I would suggest using the 1-pass Target Quality setting to make them all of the same quality. The 75% default setting is good, but you might want to experiment to find a good tradeoff between quality and filesize. And if you want them for a certain width, then set that as well.

[weaver4]

75% for XviD; 60% for DivX

if you are worried about space the following numbers a good but not quite as good as above.

67% for Xvid; 50% for DivX (Quantizers of 3 and 4).

[unskinnyboy]

I get always virtualdub error:
Script error: syntax error
(G:\\tmp\test_comptest.avs, line 14, column 56)

LoadPlugin("G:\gk\GKITFA~1.ALP\filters\mpeg2dec3dg.dll")
LoadPlugin("G:\gk\GKITFA~1.ALP\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("G:\gk\GKITFA~1.ALP\filters\undot.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("G:\\tmp\test.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=40)
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / 1,45868945868946)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
out_width = 640
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 8) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / 1,45868945868946
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=40)
Undot()
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
SelectRangeEvery(280,14)
You have a ',' instead of a '.' in couple of places. In the above script, you should have 1.45868945868946 instead of 1,45868945868946. But, you didn't get this script from AutoGK, that I can tell. Then what's this doing in this thread?

Now can you please stop making stupid posts all over the forum?

[ron spencer]

any idea if 2.48 will ever become final? I still use 2.4

[painface]

len0x, i just wanna say Thank you for this tool.

[ash1234]

When I try to rip any of my DVD's AGK stalls forever at "Demuxing and indexing." It did this with the first version I downloaded, which I think was 2.45, and it's still a problem now that I've updated to 2.48b. I have a long long flight coming up, and I'd sure like to have my movies ready, so I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong. Obviously I'm a total newbie at this.

Which input file should I be using? I tried trial and error but none of them work, VTS_01_0.IFO is the one that goes the farthest.

[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] AutoGK 2.48b
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Job started.
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Input file: D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Output file: C:\Documents and Settings\Aleks\Desktop\Young Frankenstein AGK.avi
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Output codec: XviD
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Audio 1: English AC3 2ch
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Subtitles: none
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Format: AVI
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Target quality: 100%
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Audio 1 settings: Auto
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Started encoding.
[6/29/2008 4:48:08 PM] Demuxing and indexing.

[den78]

start virtualdubmod & exit... now everything should b ok.

cheers

[King Dumpalot]

The above solution is only for accepting the license agreement. If you've already done this, it makes no difference. See the "autoGK not passing demuxing" thread

[tomixyz]

AutoGK has been my favourite DivX/AVI encoding tool for quite a while. Recently I've been moving towards the VirtualDub for it's flexibility in problem cases when I simply need to do more to the video file than just encode.

There's been this problem though: AutoGK writes it's encoding settings to the DivX configuration panel's ManualCLI section, and when I next time start encoding something with DivX multipass in VirtualDub, the AutoGK's previous temp folder path (which I always delete after use, but as long as it exists there's no problem though) in the ManualCLI causes the VirtualDub crash. I then have to go and manually wipe the "-dir" value and start all over again.

Could AutoGK clean the ManualCLI so that this inconvenience wouldn't bother us AutoGK/VirtualDub users in the future?


Thanks for the great app anyway!

[tomixyz]

BTW - I just realized that the audio level normalization isn't included in the AutoGK 2.45 anymore as it has been in previous versions I've used. Why is that? Could that be included as an option, please? It causes a lot of trouble to do it separately to each file when needed, and in most cases it is needed.

I have collected some tv-series and music videos and all of them have normalized audio, but now the most previous ones don't anymore.. :(

[tomixyz]

Here's another great idea for the AutoGK development now that AGK already supports direct AVI-encoding from the DVB MPEG files:

A simple cut edit module, so that one could exclude the commercials, pre and post margins of the recordings etc. unwanted material. This way one could do everything needed within the AGK in order to get the DVB programs into AVI format. I'm sure this would be a huge hit amongst all DVB programs archivers since you've got such a great start there already.

[Tuxon86]

I love AutoGk. I use it every day. The only function that I miss in this application is the possibility to save the job list. More then once I had to reconfigure about 15 job due to a power failuire or the systeme rebooting for one reason or the other. The possibility to save such a list, maybe in a form that coild be edited would bring autogk one step closer to perfection.

[provolino]

No updates for one year... is the project dead? :(

[Nomadic]

Everyone who wants can test the portable version Auto Gordian Knot v2.48b (http://rapidshare.com/files/156140142/Auto.Gordian.Knot.v2.48b.Portable.exe)

[citanuL]

Everyone who wants can test the portable version Auto Gordian Knot v2.48b (http://rapidshare.com/files/156140142/Auto.Gordian.Knot.v2.48b.Portable.exe)

Thanks Nomadic. Working great on 1 box. Seems it might conflict with a locally installed AutoGK or improperly uninstalled XviD, as it crashed a few times on another box, will test more. Any way to get AGKPal to work with this portable version?

Also, !THANKS! len0x
any more thought given to releasing source code?

[infiniter]

Hello!
I'm not so active in this forum because I only transcode movies from time to time and thus I can find new versions of AutoGK or AutoMKV nearly everytime I'm doing a transcoding session. But I still wonder why these programs do not change their nasty properties (they of course have nice features), as such:

a) when opening an IFO with multiple PGCs and selecting one of them, the demuxer and the audio encoder process the whole VOB, not only the selected PGC. This consumes unnecessary time, because both tools are not able to transcode a multi-PGC VOB into single files. For every PGC and file, the complete VOB audio will be encoded, which stretches the audio encoding time to 6x if there are 6 PGCs.

b) Audio encoding is done BEFORE video encoding (which seems illogical), though the picture is the most important item. Audio encoding mostly runs smooth without problems, while video encoding often results in bad quality (to blurry) or wrong resolution (if "Auto" is used). It would be better to encode a test sample of video from the source and show it to the user (as an option). Then the user can decide to take the settings and continue, to change them (and restart test encoding) or to discard. I know, this is intended to be automated because its "Auto"-GK, not the normal GK. But the normal GK is too complicated for occasional users.

c) the preview mode has no relevance to the resulting picture quality and is thus useless

d) VD still does not take advantage from multi-core processors

e) no test encoding with preview

f) if a transcoding session is aborted by any reason (error or by user) and the settings were not changed before it is started again, the whole demuxing/encoding thingy starts from the very beginning, instead of re-using the present files. This can be very annoying and extremely time consuming

g) audio encoding is slooooooow! Only up to 8x on a Pentium D with 2.8GHz. Compared to old audio ripping tools like EAC, which would rip and encode a whole CD to MP3 in some minutes which results in 20x or higher, LAME or the other libs are medievally lame. (Uhm, err, I guess that's where LAME's got its name...)

h) multi-core processors could easily encode audio and video at the same time - this is not used

In the past, any of my movies encoded by AutoGK resulted in either too low quality (though a reasonable resolution and filesize were chosen) or in too blurry picture. When I saw movies downloaded from somewhere and done by others I always see crystal clear picture. So either I'm using AutoGK the wrong way or the others don't use AutoGK. I couldn't find out yet. Though I find AutoGK to be a cool tool, since it is easy to handle.

What do you think?

[Guest]

What do you think? I think that you are not aware that the author has discontinued development of this tool.

[infiniter]

I think that you are not aware that the author has discontinued development of this tool.
Yes, I didn't know that. But these are actually some general questions. I regret that I don't have time and knowledge to program something like this myself, but I really want to find a tool that produces such crystal clear picture I often see.
I just did a DVD to AVI rip with AutoGK and with a target size of 896MB and original resolution I'm not satisfied with the quality.

[Guest]

Then don't use AutoGK. Learn what you need and then do it "pedal-to-the metal", aka manually.

[den78]

Any way to get AGKPal to work with this portable version?
it has to bi included in the portable to be able to work.
here, you can try this :)
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1212614&postcount=9

[len0x]

For those still monitoring the thread - version 2.50 is out. Please give it a go! :)

[netmask]

Many thanks for the update len0x and a happy time for you and yours in the New Year from the land down under

[den78]

Thanks len0x :) & Happy holidays m8

[Rogi]

Thank you len0x for new version

[teamare2006]

Thanks len0x for the update
testing the new AutoGK and let you know any problem arise
thanks

[teamare2006]

tested first file and the only problem is in spliting here is the log

[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] AutoGK 2.50a
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Job started.
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Input file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Output file: E:\Entourage S2D3.avi
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Output codec: XviD
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Audio 1: English AC3 2ch
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Subtitles: none
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Format: AVI
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Target size: 1400Mb
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Audio 1 settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 128Kbps
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Started encoding.
[12/25/2008 7:21:18 PM] Demuxing and indexing.
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Processing file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Processing file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Processing file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_3.VOB
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Processing file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_4.VOB
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Processing file: E:\Customize\Entourage S2D3\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_5.VOB
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Source resolution: 720x480
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Found NTSC source.
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Source aspect ratio: 4:3
[12/25/2008 7:22:24 PM] Analyzing source.
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 37.47
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Source has percentage of telecined patterns: 94.07
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Source has percentage of progressive patterns: 4.57
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Source has percentage of interlaced patterns: 1.36
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Source is considered to be FILM.
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Output will contain 152977 frames
[12/25/2008 7:25:39 PM] Decoding audio.
[12/25/2008 7:26:55 PM] Normalizing audio.
[12/25/2008 7:27:18 PM] Encoding audio.
[12/25/2008 7:37:24 PM] Audio1 size: 86,640,408 bytes (82.63 Mb)
[12/25/2008 7:37:25 PM] Overhead: 6,119,040 bytes (5.84 Mb)
[12/25/2008 7:37:25 PM] Video size: 1,375,246,952 bytes (1311.54 Mb)
[12/25/2008 7:37:25 PM] Running compressibility test.
[12/25/2008 7:37:25 PM] Writing the following script to E:\agk_tmp\Entourage S2D3_comptest.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("E:\agk_tmp\Entourage S2D3.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 0.888888888888889
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 704
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
Telecide(movie,guide=1,post=2).Decimate(mode=0)
autocrop(mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
SelectRangeEvery(300,15)
===========================================================
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Duration was: 5 minutes 42 seconds
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Speed was: 22.31 fps.
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Compressibility percentage is: 42.22
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Chosen resolution is: 528x400 ( AR: 1.32 )
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Predicted comptest value is: 74.31%
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Running first pass.
[12/25/2008 7:43:08 PM] Writing the following script to E:\agk_tmp\Entourage S2D3_movie.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AutoGK\filters\RemoveGrainSSE3.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("E:\agk_tmp\Entourage S2D3.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 0.888888888888889
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 528
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
Telecide(movie,guide=1,post=2).Decimate(mode=0)
autocrop(mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
===========================================================
[12/25/2008 8:29:17 PM] Duration was: 46 minutes 9 seconds
[12/25/2008 8:29:18 PM] Speed was: 55.25 fps.
[12/25/2008 8:29:19 PM] Expected quality of first pass size: 75.96%
[12/25/2008 8:29:19 PM] Running second pass.
[12/25/2008 9:18:24 PM] Duration was: 49 minutes 2 seconds
[12/25/2008 9:18:24 PM] Speed was: 51.99 fps.
[12/25/2008 9:18:24 PM] Error splitting file
[12/25/2008 9:18:24 PM] Job finished. Total time: 1 hour, 57 minutes 6 seconds

[weaver4]

Thanks, very good news!!

[len0x]

tested first file and the only problem is in spliting here is the log


Hm... will have a look after the Christmas break. Thanks for reporting!

[gonwk]

Hi len0x,

Wow a new Version ... THANKS!

A belated Merry XMAS & Wish YOU a Great New 2009 Year!

G!:)

[fifer]

This is lovely news! Funny that i was just reading the main page and i thought to myself "wonder when autogk will get an update" and after going into this forum an update! Fantastic ! keep it up in the year 2009!

[Mixer73]

Thanks for the update len0x, awesome program. Working lovely here on XP32bit and Vista x64.

My needs are pretty simple through, mainly DVB->XviD keeping the original audio to preserve sync.

[fifer]

Forgot to ask , can i donate to this project ? i would really like to see this software progress.

[len0x]

Forgot to ask , can i donate to this project ? i would really like to see this software progress.

There are links on my main web page (top right) :)

[ahxcjb]

Hm... will have a look after the Christmas break. Thanks for reporting!

I must use this quote as a means to outline my frustrations at doom9's settings for newly registered users.

I discovered this bug within hours of 2.50a being released, but was unable to make anyone aware (no public BZ either, i note) as newly-registered users can only message or post after *5* days has elapsed.

This is *utterly* insane.

[len0x]

I discovered this bug within hours of 2.50a being released

Although being appreciated, the speed of the response would have no influence at how fast this is fixed...

[ahxcjb]

Although being appreciated, the speed of the response would have no influence at how fast this is fixed...

Agreed, and the issue is very easy to work-around in vd-mod, but the point still remains.. :) Would be nice to be allowed to use the doom9 account as soon as one has registered. Appreciate this is outside of your control (?) so will stay silent now.

thanks for a great app.

[Don_Genaro]

Thanks Lenox for this great app!

I have a feature request: if it's possible for autogk to convert from MKV or MP4 or AVS to XVID (Home Theater Profile) and to automaticly crop the movie to fit 16:9 AR if desired.

There are almost no applications that can do this. And since stand alone players doen't support the mkvs or mp4s directly it would be nice automkv to convert them.

Thanks!

[fifer]

Thanks Lenn0x . I just donated , wasnt a large amount , but hey if everyone does the same hopefuly it will keep you motivated to keep this project rolling.Once Again Fantastic work!

[deejay.2001]

thanks for new version Lenn0x...i thought you forgot autoGK....
well if i may i wish to continue this wonderful autogk program and wish this program to support x264 outputs soooooon..to be able play those files on ps3.....

[len0x]

2.52 beta is up for grabs now!

[IYG]

The preview function doesn't work for me.

[Taurus]

The preview function doesn't work for me.
Did you try with another clip?
Which OS?
Did you alter with the installer?
Did you verify Media Player Classic bundled with AutoGk is working?

So many questions, so little info :mad:
Here, WinXP SP3, preview is on ;)

[weaver4]

Will AutoGK work with the latest DivX 7 ASP codec or should I stay with 6.8?

[den78]

Media Player Classic is not even installed.
Is it included in installer? ...cause i can't find it in install dir ...there should be mpc folder in there with mplayerc.exe, right? ... but it ain't.
well, i made a new portable ver. & included mpc... so @IYG try it.
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1236771&postcount=5
btw, i also found a bug in preview with mpc, for example:
D:\Record\XviD\Married With Children\season 7\test.m2v (says: file not found)
D:\Record\XviD\MarriedWithChildren\season 7\test.m2v (Works fine)
so...like you see i removed those spaces & preview works...what can this be?
I just know that with autogk v2.40 which is not using mpc everything works fine.

btw, OS is XPSP2