Standalone support

[gardar]

I have some dvd's that I have encoded to a XviD .avi file and some of them don't have any standalone support enabled (ESS or MTK/Sigma).
I need standalone support but I'm wondering if I could enable standalone support by some easy way? Without having to rip the dvd again or completely re-encode the .avi file?
I'm on 1ghz intel pentium III so it takes really long time if I have to fully encode everything again.

Is there any magical solution or do I have to encode everything again?

Thanks in advance

[Baldrick]

If they have GMC or Qpel and your dvd player doesn't support it you need to reencode.

[guns1inger]

Are you sure they wont play ? Standalone support isn't some magic switch you turn on or off, it's just another way of encoding. These may already work.

If not, AVIRecomp is a simple way to re-encode them for standalone playback. But it is going to be slow no matter what you do.

[gardar]

I have a iRiver PMP-120 and I when I don't encode with standalone support the .avi file does play, I hear the audio fine but the video does appear as just green lines. I can post screenshot or record a video of my iriver playing if you would like to see how it looks?
When I enable standalone support in autoGK this doesn't happen and my video plays correctly.
So I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the standalone support :P

However I'm not completely sure about what you are talking about Baldrick, I'm not sure what GMC and Qpel is.

[guns1inger]

They are encoding features that some players cannot handle on playback, or can only handle if implemented in a certain way.

If you have AutoGK then you may as well use it to re-encode, instead of avirecomp.

Mpeg4Modifier or the latest g-spot (2.60b) can tell you if GMC or QPel were used when encoding.

[gardar]

ah, ok.. I get it now, thanks guns1inger

but about autogk, it's extremely slow for me. Taking many hours to re-encode a single 700mb .avi movie.
I have been using iriverter to re-encode avi files because it's working really fast for me.
However iriverter is quite buggy and has only 3 available resolutions that I can choose (320x240, 512x384, 640x480).
Since I would like my widescreen videos to have widescreen resolution, 576x304 etc. Then I can't use iriverter.
Is there any other encoder out there I can use that is as fast as iriverter (iriverter is a GUI frontend for mencoder so there must be some encoder out there that I can use)

[guns1inger]

SUPER and MediaBuilder are both mencoder front ends. Might be worth a look.