Shrinking a show to fit on CD

[dvd_maniac]

@Neilm
I use 350/hr and that seems to be acceptable quality for me. But I get a wide variety of resolutions in my encodes, Is this because of the type of video it is, quality of channel or something else? I currently have everything at default except for using CBR 96 audio. Should I use a fixed width?

[nielm]

Is this because of the type of video it is, quality of channel or something else?

probably, and also due to the show duration, and whether there are 16x9 black bars that AutoGK can crop off..

The autogk compression test determines how 'compressable' the section of video is (depends on how much movement there is in the section, and channel noise can be confused as movement) then it chooses a resolution based on this compressability so that you gets the best resolution/bitrate combination for the chosen filesize... In (non-auto) GordianKnot, you get to do this part manually.

Choosing a fixed width will mean that autogk can only alter the bitrate to fit the chosen filesize, which for a long/difficult to compress show may mean that the bitrate is too low, and you see the compression artifacts (blockyness/blurryness)

[geogecko]

Interesting. Thanks for the information. I will try limiting it to 350MB first, and see if this is acceptable. I guess I can queue up two jobs, one being the 350MB, and the second being 700MB, and see which one works better. If I start it tonight when I get home, I should have two files in the morning.

I'll leave it set to auto for the video size, and see what happens.

[geogecko]

AutoGk Adware was in versions 1.95 onwards: "DAE" or "targetresponse"

After installing the most recent beta, 2.17, I find neither of these on my computer, after install. Wonder if it was removed, after the negative response he got? Or maybe it's just not in the beta releases.