Software update: Auto Gordian Knot 1.70 beta

A few days ago a new beta version of Auto Gordian Knot became available. This program is one of the easiest to convert DVD movie to avi file. This version will need to be installed over the 1.60 stable version. Lenox mentioned that this release is very experimental. A lot of internal things have changed and he expects that there will still be some bugs. It is remarkable, for example, that old codecs are no longer supported and that coding can only be done with XviD 1.02 or DivX 5.2.1. The full changelog looks like this:

Changes in version 1.70 beta:

• sharp resizer is now Lanczos4Resize
• sharp matrix is ​​now EQM V2
• removed support for old XviD and DivX versions. Now only XviD 1.0.2 and DivX 5.2.1 are supported
• fixed some typos in GUI
• Undot() has been replaced by RemoveGrain()
• AutoGK is compiled using new visual libraries (may be some GUI bugs there)
• AutoGK’s ini file is no longer in windows directory, but in AutoGK home directory
• custom size is persistent across different runs of AutoGK
• broken frame info from VDubMod is ignored and won’t stop AutoGK
• current advanced settings are shown in the status bar of AutoGK
• changed i-frames settings for XviD’s second pass
• AutoGK assistant can properly be used to set three hidden option in AutoGK home dir (when launched from CTFR-F9)
• “No Audio” setting is not reset when opening new source
• first pass will be rerun if difference to comp test result after first XviD pass is more that 15% or undersize is expected and adjustment of resolution/settings is possible