FAQ: GKnot fails to find a log file! (Last update 17 June 2003)

My guess: Others are probably using a folder name, while you are using the disk letter only. If you use a folder on your E drive, and it works, you have circumvented the problem.

Hi jggimi Good news. You where right. I just ran a test where I made a folder named test. This did the trick. This has eluded me for some time and I suspect that there has been more than one error. I have been trying to get to work for a long time using older versions of GKnot. But, there seems indeed to be an error when trying to encode an file from the root of a drive. Again, thanks for your help. I appriciate it. Best regards, mogens

yep, you must be right about root dir 

I don't have sources at hands atm, but that must be the reason. Very probably delphi routines for returning path behave different with root dir any any other dir.... So I might have to remove that slash manually (all over the place actually :) )

I've updated this FAQ today, cleaning up the 2-pass/multipass discussion, and added the fairly common YV12 encoding error.

OK, I'm tired, blind and temporarilly stupid. I had trouble getting the CompTest to work. Just discovered the "GKnot vs XviD 1.0" thread... I'll be moving my gripes there...

How do I configure YV12 correctly? I'm getting the cannot find vdenc.log file - and in the output directory, I don't even see the vdenc.log file. :/ And everything is in its own directory (maybe if I try a directory without spaces...). I'm going to try viewing the AVS file later (I haven't figured out where it is exactly yet. Thanks.

foobar_GKnot.log instead of foobar.log, why? 

hi there, have a look at this... :( divx 5.2.1 gknot latest stable 0.28 i think it is everything installed working properly but... the .log file created should be cs.log however, gknot creates it as: cs_GKnot.log instead of: cs.log therefore, gknot cannot find the log file!!! here is the log: 9:08:46: Started DivX5-First Pass: C:\c_s\cs.avs 11:32:14: Finished DivX5-First Pass. Duration: 2 hours, 23 minutes, 27 seconds. 11:32:14: Trying to open Log-file. 11:32:14: Error: Could not open C:\c_s\cs.log 11:32:14: Error: Could not count encoded Frames. 11:32:14: Speed: 0.000 Frames per Second. 11:32:14: WARNING: Number of counted frames differs from settings! any idea on why is it behaving like this? thanks in advance! derebo

Hello, and welcome to the forum. Its just a guess, but it might be the underscore character in your folder name that is causing a parsing error. Log files are properly "<movie name>_Gknot.log"