MKV to Uncompressed AVI

[TheLarch]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me with some tips

I have an HD mkv movie that I'd like to playback with a digital media player
that unfortunately does not support this file format or H.264/X.264 compressions.

Therefore I see the only option as to convert the MKV to uncompressed AVI
in order to keep the HD resolution.

How can I acchieve this?

Thankfull for any and all suggestions.

TheLarch

[guns1inger]

Before you do this, how much hard drive space to you have free ? An uncompressed HD file is going to be well over 100 GBs, if not much larger.

What is your target player ?

[TheLarch]

Hi,

Drive space is not an issue

I've got 2 TB of space for this.

ThaLarch

[guns1inger]

If your machine specs are right, you don't have a system capable of playing back that amount of data.

I would use the haali splitter and ffdshow, avisynth, and if possible, encode it to high bitrate mpeg-2. 25 mbps should take up around 13 GB/hr and be almost playable on your system. Not a lot of mpeg encoders can do this yet though.

If you want uncompressed, use avisynth to load it into virtualdub and save it as uncompressed from there using Fast Recompress.