Help with .raw file in mkv

[seragx99]

I have an .mkv file wich i want to convert to DVD, the file name says its h264 and ac3 audio, I had no problem playing it on VLC mediaplayer so i didnt pay much attention to this,later i found out h264 was a codec (doh!),anyway, i couldn't use Virtualdub Mod to demux it, so i tried Avi mux gui 17.7 and i got a huge video file with a .raw extension, the problem is that my PC recognizes it as a raw pcm audio file for adobe audition i tried to open it again with vlc media player, mediaplayer classic, virtualdub, nerovision4 and even vegas 6 but all of them fail to open it, i've already tried many solutions on the site, but none of them seems to work fine for me, any ideas? pleas??

[celtic_druid]

Not sure if the output is usefull for anything much. mkvextract would at least give you a proper raw h.264 stream. Can't see the point of extracting raw streams though other than the AC3 which is ready for authoring. The video you are going to need to re-encode anyway, so extracting doesn't help.

[seragx99]

I had already tried it but it said something like "error creating chilg progress", also i tried the wizard, but it said it was parsing the files and nothing happened, i clicked on extract and it said "mkvex.bat doesn't exist".
"The video you are going to need to re-encode anyway, so extracting doesn't help."
Does that mean i don't have to extract the video but directly encode it? how do i do that? thanks for your help!

[celtic_druid]

Exactly, just convert the mkv. Extracting the AC3 audio makes sense since you can re-use it for the DVD audio. If you extract the video, you still need to convert, so you may as well just convert the mkv directly.