AutoGK and PAR

[computerchuck]

I like AutoGK, but I recently got a widescreen TV and a Philips DVP642/17 DVD player for XVID/DIVX FIles. Well upon playback as others have pointed out, the aspect ratio is incorrect. I have never been able to successfuly use the other program GordionKnot, but I was wondering if there was a hidden feature or a feature added that will choose the xvid PAR on the front end or how do I setup AutoGK to fix this issue? Currently have to use DrDivx and upon encoding choose 4:3 to correct the aspect ratio on the tv, although it stretches it on pc which means I'll have to have 2 versions of each back up. one for 16:9 and one for 4:3/PC. Test DVD used was Titan AE (2:35:1 anamorphic).

[len0x]

Are you saying that you need an anamorphic encode to play properly on 16:9 TV connected to your DVD player ?

[computerchuck]

Yes. The standard encodes that everyone does will upon playback of a DIVX/XVID Standalone DVD Player will stretch when played back on their 16:9 HDTV. The only way that I know to correct this is to change the encode aspect ratio. Only DrDivx can do this and probably regular Gordian Knot, like I said suck at using, and I hate DIVX. XVID produces a cleaner picture and I don't mind the avi not being played back on pc or standard TV. Planet Bob (new earth) as a reference in pic quality on the tv was stretched and not round more oval. I spent 12hrs on different encoded options yesterday before I stumbled upon the 4:3 (nonanamorphic encode) option on DrDivx and creating a 720x400 avi file as opposed to the 704x308 or whatever it said it was for 16:9 anamorphic encode, which is pretty much what the program does. AutoGK doesn't have the enduser option of overriding the aspect ratio (at least not x and y axis). I hope a solution of somesort can be reached before starwas comes out because the whole idea behind this was to put 3 xvid encodes onto one DVD-R, put the originals up and never touch again, sit back and veg out.

[computerchuck]

Lenox, do you have a widescreen tv and standalone Divx player? If not any betas that you want to post for me to test for you will do what I can to help.

[len0x]

What about full screen 4:3 encodes? How are they played on widescreen?

[len0x]

I do have widescreen TV but I destroyed/gave away all my players and waiting for players on new sigma chip to appear :)

[computerchuck]

they get stretched. That's what I noticed right off the bat. Basically to correct the issue you have to stretch the picture up and down to make it play correctly.

[computerchuck]

Currently using Gknot to duplicate same settings used on drdivx. Also noticed you added some features since last I used it (2 yrs ago). I hope I did everything right. I played the DIVX encode earlier and it was blocky. The AutoGK one was perfect, just wrong aspect ratio. Hopefully Gknot will duplicate the quality. Specs chosen on resolution tab:

NTSC
4:3 NonAnamorphic (causes planets not to be round on pc monitor)
704x392
AC3 Audio
AutoCrop
TitanAE DVD

[len0x]

As long as you have compressibility percentage around 70% you will get nice quality in GK.

P.S. I'll have a look at anamorphic encodes in AutoGK after I'm done with a stable release, otherwise I will never finish it.