Hi- If you're using DivX 3.11, perhaps the easiest way is to manually insert the keyframes after the first pass, save the ECF, and then run the second pass, and split when done. But since you didn't say whether you're using DivX 3.11 or DivX 5.02, I'll save the other ways until you let us know.

Yeah, its the latest DivX 5 that I'm using.

Thanks for the help! Tried the elegant method and that didn't work - produced the same keyframes as encoding the whole thing at once did. Currently experimenting with using multiple .avs scripts, trying to get the bitrate correct so the total is 1 CD worth of files

Hi Vantage- I'm sorry to have wasted your time with that suggestion. I was going to try it myself the next time I had a bunch of anime episodes all run together in one set of vobs. Now I know. I have used the reencode, cut and splice method several times with success, but you have to keep careful track of all the pieces and frame numbers so you can get everything put back together properly. One advantage of it is that you will have equal quality among the episodes. As for the other method, and getting equal quality among the episodes, and having the total come out to 1 CD: One way is to run a compression test on each of the 4 (or however many) episodes, set the file size for 175 MB for each (you'll have to estimate the audio-if total=100 MB, then 25 MB per episode), get the percentages for each episode, and then juggle bitrates-file size until the percentage for each episode is roughly the same. I've done it that way a bunch of times. Good Luck to you.

Using a separate .avs script for each episode works well. The episodes vary in length greatly, so I used the bitrate to encode the entire DVD into a 1 CD as the bitrate for each episode encode. I set the bitrate in the 'calculate .avi file size' mode of Gknot and then made sure that it did not recalculate the bitrate anywhere along the line.

Good-Glad it worked out for you. And I learned something too, even if you had to be the guinea pig for it.