DrewWilson
August 27th, 2008, 08:20 PM
I've been testing my webcam for video-making. I'd like to burn the video's to DVD, but the files are too big (24GB each) Strange since they are about an hour long each, but WMP spat the DVD back out and thought 'whatever' and figured that I'd be better off sticking 4 to a data DVD anyway. Before you ask, I'm not doing the Numa Numa dance, I'm actually attempting to make some educational video demo's.
Anyway, I noticed there is generally positive comments about AutoGK. I spent about 4 days in vane to encode these video's. It started out with an error that said that I needed to have a dimension of at least 4. Since it was on auto, I put the settings at maximum (640) width. I tried again and had the error 'can't find frames.log' So, my usual n00b hacking self said 'create a blank log file for it to find' Once it started encoding (since that's the moment it seems to clear out the temp directory), I thought I had successfully got it to work. After a half an hour of compressing the audio, it spits out another error which is basically 'unable to open avi' I browsed through the AutoGK directory and it said that I should delete the comptest avi. After doing that, I redid the previous steps and went back to the usual 'width must be greater than 4' Since I already messed with the width setting, I said 'screw it, this is rediculous'
I downloaded DVDx, but it only seems to recognize IFO files. Whatever. Looked at Dshow, but it seems to only be a player. I looked at Virtual dub, but the intro page doesn't say it supports Vista. The last choice I even heard of was Vidomi. Downloaded that and installed it. After starting up the program, had a gui conflict (which didn't seem to be a major issue) and when I loaded the avi file, the program completely crashed.
Considering most stuff is encoded in XViD, it's been surprisingly a huge pain in the ass to do a seemingly simple compression task.
So, any ideas on what I'm doing wrong (besides using Vista, I know that :P )? Thanks in advance. :)
Anyway, I noticed there is generally positive comments about AutoGK. I spent about 4 days in vane to encode these video's. It started out with an error that said that I needed to have a dimension of at least 4. Since it was on auto, I put the settings at maximum (640) width. I tried again and had the error 'can't find frames.log' So, my usual n00b hacking self said 'create a blank log file for it to find' Once it started encoding (since that's the moment it seems to clear out the temp directory), I thought I had successfully got it to work. After a half an hour of compressing the audio, it spits out another error which is basically 'unable to open avi' I browsed through the AutoGK directory and it said that I should delete the comptest avi. After doing that, I redid the previous steps and went back to the usual 'width must be greater than 4' Since I already messed with the width setting, I said 'screw it, this is rediculous'
I downloaded DVDx, but it only seems to recognize IFO files. Whatever. Looked at Dshow, but it seems to only be a player. I looked at Virtual dub, but the intro page doesn't say it supports Vista. The last choice I even heard of was Vidomi. Downloaded that and installed it. After starting up the program, had a gui conflict (which didn't seem to be a major issue) and when I loaded the avi file, the program completely crashed.
Considering most stuff is encoded in XViD, it's been surprisingly a huge pain in the ass to do a seemingly simple compression task.
So, any ideas on what I'm doing wrong (besides using Vista, I know that :P )? Thanks in advance. :)