[The Sixth Rat Packer]

because I have some friends who also want them so they want them in .avi files

it's a tangled web, I know. lol

Gordian Knot started out as a simple bitrate calculator for video encoding but has evolved to become an integrated package or tool for the entire process of DVD to AVI/MPEG-4 encoding. It combines multiple free software packages to perform the various tasks needed to rip, demux, encode, multiplex and split to size etc. It thereby attempts to combine most tasks with a single frontend to variable degrees of effectiveness.

Gordian Knot is normally distributed as a program pack and a codec pack. Here's a list of the integrated software Gordian Knot consists of:

1. Main Gordian Knot Program
2. VirtualDubMod
3. NanDub
4. AviSynth PlugIns
5. Besweets + azidts
6. DGMPGDec
7. ChapterXtractor
8. vStrip
9. Robot4Rip
10. VobSub Rip Wizard
11. VobSub
12. AviSynth

The Softwares & their versions are Package Version dependent. The "Codec pack" consists of all the supported necessary codecs for encoding with Gordian Knot.