DivX4 Guide using GKnot

By now most of you have probably heard about DivX 4. The main project by Divxnetworks it has been positioned to be the successor of the good old DivX3.11 (most of the time just called "DivX") codec. Originally, Projectmayo, as the project was known from the beginning looked like an open source development, but as it appears now that open source project called OpenDivX, was just a testbed for the real DivX which is a commercial codec, even though as private users you do not have to pay for its use. This has lead to some confusion and considerable anger. You can get the full range of this on the Projectmayo forums and read the official statement from the developers.

Nevertheless we have to consider their position, and as it's quite hard to make money with open source software, especially when you cannot charge for support as in case of a codec they'd get that for free on this very page and the forums, as long as we can use the technology freely we shouldn't complain too much. DivX is also going to be available for all platforms, starting with Windows Linux and Mac which are already available, and many more to come.

You will need the following software for this guide:

GordianKnot Installer package
GKnot latest update

Step 0: First time setup

You will only have to perform this step once.

Run the GordianKnot Installer package, then run the GKnot latest update installer. then last but not least unpack lame.exe from the zipfile to your GKnot installation directory (normally c:\program files\gordian knot). You can also install the latest VobSub.

Step 1: Basic GKnot Setup

This step will teach you how to set up GKnot for a perfectly good looking rip.

Step 2: Encoding video and audio in GKnot

Only a few more steps and GKnot will automatically encode video and audio for you without any further manual interaction.

Step 3: Splitting

If you created a movie for more than 1 CD you have to split it up now.