Oversized video file...

[Felo]

I ripped a movie from a DVD 2 convert it to Xvid with GKnot, it's a 1 hour 41 minutes long so i go for 1 CD but after the compression, the file it's 0.98 GB big, i've read that checking "Calculate Frame Overhead" will prevent that issue, but it's not recomended for Xvid, only for DivX. Could someone help......?

[manono]

Hi-

Could someone help......?

It's true that the box to which you're referring is for DivX and not XviD, but since the overhead is only around 5 MB or so for a movie that length, checking or unchecking it isn't the cause of your problem. Did you figure the bitrate correctly? Did you take into account the audio size? Did you make the audio WAV audio by mistake, rather than using MP3 or AC3? Can you open the finished AVI in GSpot and post the pic here? And can you post the log?

[Felo]

About the bitrate the log file says 833 kbits, that value was assigned by GKnot, he it's the one who makes the calculation, movie length, target size, audio file size, and the audio file it's an 94 MB mp3, i encoded it with BeSweet before the movie just in case i had this kind of problems, so i don't have to encode the audio every time i try different values. The finished AVI i erased it 'cause i'm having hard drive space issues, sorry, the .log it's here thougth

16-9_progressive_gknot.log

[manono]

Hi-

he it's the one who makes the calculation, movie length, target size, audio file size, and the audio file it's an 94 MB mp3, i encoded it with BeSweet before the movie just in case i had this kind of problems,

Well, you chose the size you wanted, and the D2V (combined with the audio size/bitrate) tells GKnot the length of the film and, hence, the bitrate.

Thanks for the log. It looks fine, and that's the right bitrate for that movie. The problem lies elsewhere. Have you done other movies using GKnot? Did you have any problems? Or did they also come out too big? Have you recently installed a newer XviD over an older version you may have been using for some time? The reason I ask is because installing a new XviD over an old one without first uninstalling the old one can lead to the problems you describe. You can test that theory by making an encode in DivX and see if you have the same problem, but I think it will come out the right size.

My suggestions are to first uninstall XviD. Next do a search for both XviD.dll and XviD.ax and remove them if found. Third, reinstall XviD. Then try. If that doesn't work, do the same thing followed by a deletion of GKnot entirely and a reinstall of both XviD and GKnot.