DivX 5 encoding problems

[SKiNFreak]

I have recently been trying very unsuccessfully to encode various DVDs fro mmy collection. I've picked up from various posts that GKnot is the best utility...but I do find it very unuser firnedly. The best success I've had is from using Smartripper and then XMpeg to do the encoding.

What is the best rip help guide for GKnot? Also, I am just saving the files to my hard disk which is 2x 80gb WD 7200 drives so space is not an issue. I really want to get near DVD quality but even a 1.3 gig rip of Swordfish using the 2000 bitrate has noticable effects and the picture seems to lack colour and definition.

Also, I've been getting strange effects with te sound. As I have a SB Audigy Platinum wich 5.1 speakers I didn't think it necessary to encode the sound. Just mux the 5.1 ac3 stream directly in Nandub but when I do, I cannot seem to synch the audio correctly despite what dvd2avi says on the ac3 stream filenames. -80ms in nandub still seems to show a disjointed audio stream. What is the best mthod for synching? Also, the beginning of the movie features a lot of distortion with the sound. It sorts itself out but only when I encode to mp3 to i get seamless playback (ie no jumping during the first 10 seconds or so). I keep interleaving levels exact but there does seem to be a problem with ac3? What is the alternative bearing in mind that I have the hardware....why shouldn't I keep the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix??

Anyway, thanks for reading this. Any tips would be greatly appreciated esp with the best Gordian Knot walkthrough.

Regards,

Skinfreak

[uklawman]

What is the best rip help guide for GKnot?

You can find an excellent guide for GKnot here:- http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main3.htm


Then, as a possible solution to your sync problems read the "Ogg Media stream guide" that explains how to incorperate multichannel tracks and audio streams that are fully sync'd with the video and which, produce high quality sound in low bit rates.

Read the guide here:-
http://www.doom9.org/ogg.htm

[UncasMS]

What is the best rip help guide for GKnot?

are you dealing with ntsc or pal?

[Popey]

I don't know wich are the GKnot hits , but I had very good results from SmartRipper and FlaskMpeg to my musical dvds collection.

[SKiNFreak]

Pal

[Erci]

You can read my guide at http://hem.fyristorg.com/dvdriping, uncasms guides, technos guide or doom9 at http://gknot.doom9.org.
All these will work. Trust me. Though I believe no one handles ac3 sound. Youäll have to solve that one another way.

BTW I have ripped swordfsih myself and the size is 700 mb, great quality. I compared with dominions version and you can't see any difference.
At least I can't.

//Erci

[khp]

Originally posted by Erci
Though I believe no one handles ac3 sound.

Doom9's guide does cover using the AC3 file directly instead of reencoding to mp3.

[Erci]

Originally posted by khp


Doom9's guide does cover using the AC3 file directly instead of reencoding to mp3.

That's great... I haven't read it for a while so I didn't remember that.

//Erci

[UncasMS]

since ac3 will simply be muxed into the video there's hardly any guide needed for that ;)


@ skinfreak

here my pal guide:
http://www.atlandide.net/~uncasms/en/index.php?page=gordian

[SKiNFreak]

I tried this guide http://www.doom9.org/gknot-main3.htm

but when i came to encoding, the process took about 3 seconds and left me with a 16k avi file. I really don't get it at all. What am I doing wrong?

I try to keep the same resolution but I do get a red box over the compressability test load. Even when I try to use the compressability test at 5% the box is still red.

I select the audio and directly mux the ac3...this is really odd. If I ignore audio all together then the process takes about 1 second...obviusly there is a problem there

SF