How to covert .MKV files and burn them on a dvd

[Waille]

ok i have a bunch of anime half is .omg and the othe half is .mkv the first half i can use virtualdubmod to convert to .avi (thanx to Baldrick)but apparently i can't use that software for my .MKV files. My .mkv have variable framerates.

so my goal is to take tese mkv files and covert them to something with only one audio stream and subtitles and then burn it using nerovision express 3.

so that said can someone plz help me

[garrisonkw]

You can use a prog called mkvextractgui to pull out the avi video stream and all the audio streams. You may find that the mkv files also contain subtitle streams. You can then use virtualdubmod to recombine the video and audio streams into a single avi file if you need to.

[Waille]

thanx alot but one more question

how do i add the subtitles in an avi file using virtualdubmod and burn it afterwards

[Stormin Norman]

Demux video, audio, and substream. Encode video to dvd compliant, transcode audio to ac3 with ffmpeggui, author m2v, ac3, and substream in a authoring program like rejig or ifoedit. For you varible bitrate audio, just open up in VirtualdubMod and go to streams list and save wav, then transcode them.

[oldfart13]

Try here for MKV tools:

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

[GreatScott]

What about Avi2Dvd

[Waille]

thanx for all you advice

i just tried garrisonkw suggestion and the video seems to be faster than ist soppose to bet and therefore when i put the two streams together the audio is wayyyyyy out of sync by like a minute.

-->storming norman you lost me dude, im somewhat new at this.

-->greatScott ill try that next it seem great.

[Waille]

avi2dvd is a great tool but it take way too long

2 hours to encoce an 197mb mkv file wich is 29 min of video and it only did the first 40 seconds of it


anyone else has any ideas

[Baldrick]

try http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/mkv2vfr.exe , drag and drop the mkv on it and it will make a new avi file.

VFR helper tool
As there are no tools to process/reencode VFR Matroska files, I've written a small utility to ease such processing.
mkv2vfr extracts all video frames from Matroska to a CFR AVI file and a timecode file. You can extract video to avi, process it with any apps and mux back to matroska using a timecode file if you didn't add/remove frames. If you changed the frames you'd need to edit the timecode file by hand.
This is the same tool that I've made long ago under the name of mp_rel.exe. If you use that you can upgrade to this new version as the underlying core matroska parser received quite a few bug fixes and improvements in the meantime.

[Waille]

it does nothing

i drag it a cmd prompt comes up then nothing happens
and i tried several times

all i want to do is burn these 26 eps on 4 dvd and watch them on my tv
is this doable im starting to think its not ive been fideling with this for a week and i can't get it to work or get in touch with anyone who can make it work

and sorry bout the other post Baldrick its just patience is not one of my virtues.

[Stormin Norman]

Sorry dude, you can pm me if you like and ill try and help you. Its not that hard once you get the hang of it.

[Waille]

well just to let ppl know i still have not been able to burn these files

like i said before they are variable frame rate mkv files when i use any software ive been told to use to seperate the video and the audio, the video seems faster than its supose to be and the audio is out of sync by like a minute

if anyone has any other idees or found a solution to this plz post it here or email me at jm_gionet@hotmail.com.

thank you all for the effort

[stavr0]

ok i have a bunch of anime half is .omg and the othe half is .mkv the first half i can use virtualdubmod to convert to .avi (thanx to Baldrick)but apparently i can't use that software for my .MKV files. My .mkv have variable framerates.

so my goal is to take tese mkv files and covert them to something with only one audio stream and subtitles and then burn it using nerovision express 3.

so that said can someone plz help me

First of all, MKV is a sort of universal container. I recommend you use the MKVtoolnix or MKVextract GUI to extract all the streams as separate files.

SO, YMMV, wildly. There is no standard audio or video codec or subtitle format for MKV.

Use MKVMERGE -i to obtain a list of all streams

You could have:
One or more video stream
One or more audio streams
Zero or more subtitle streams
Possibly cover JPGs
Chapter breaks
etc ....

After extracting the component streams from the MKV, follow a separate guide for each stream you want. Then you can use VirtualDub to do a final multiplexing by doing Direct Copy Audio+Video.

You then have to handle each separately. In my case I had to deal with 3 separate audio streams plus 4 subtitle tracks.
The video stream was RMVB i.e Real Media! It required the RealAlternative codecs, and AVISynth's DirectShowSource function to pass it into VirtualDub (the simple 1.6, not the MOD version). I had to determine the FPS parameter manually. Once all was working, conversion was possible. I went for XVID two-pass.

As for the audio streams, they were AAC MPEG4s. Ugh. I used http://www.audiocoding.com 's FAAD to convert the AAC stream into an uncompressed WAV file.

Once I got my desired video and audio streams, I Stream-copied the no-audio XVID and compressed the WAV to 192kbps CBR MP3, multiplexed into a final XVID+MP3 .AVI file, playable on a Philips DVP642 player. I could've fed the AVS into Nero to produce a DVD if I wanted to as well.

In your case, I hope your audio and video streams will be made up of more standard codecs, like XVID DIVX MPEG MP3 AC3. And to those who want to produce MKVs, STICK TO THE AFFOREMENTIONED CODECS please!!!

In conclusion, I don't like MKV because it's too easy to use any ill-supported codec and requires lots of lengthy steps to massage it into someting usable. Plus DVD/XVID players don't support them.

[Waille]

ok starvo ive tried something like that using mkvextrackgui

when i multiplex the files back togethter my audio is out of synk by a minute and my video seems to be faster than its supose to be.

if you have a ftp server of somesort i could upload one of my files to you and youll see what i mean

if you want to do that just send the info to my email jm_gionet@hotmail.com

oh and i also hate MKV

and baldrick could you plz move this back where it was in the advance conversations, cause i dont think its a newbie issue since it has not been resolved in like a month

[ChristianHJW]

oh and i also hate MKV

It's quite simple :

If a release group is choosing MKV as container, and put a VFR video stream in it, THEY DONT WANT YOU GUYS TO MAKE DVDS FROM THEM !!!! Is this so hard to understand ?

AVI container doesnt support VFR ( Variable Framerate ), so there is no point in trying to convert a VFR MKV into an AVI. MKV was invented in the first place because of all the numerous limitations of AVI, like not supporting VFR video and VSR/VBR audio, so it should be perfectly clear why conversion of most MKV files into AVI won't work at all. Or, to say it in other words, if a MKV CAN be converted into an AVI easily, without reencoding, there probably has never been a point to create a MKV in the first place.

Guys, i am sorry, but its not OUR fault that these software developers of the most used DVD conversion tools out there simply ignore our project ( its free to use for them, same for the libraries !! ), even today when more and more releases will be in MKV format ( especially anime ). The creators of TMPGencoder even refused to add .mkv to the list of supported formats ( their program COULD read MKV at one time, and even VFR, using its built in DShow reader module, when our pack was installed ), telling us it will never become a 'Standard' ..... so what could we do ?

Christian
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org