MKV audio streams + what codecs/filters??

[mujahid7ia]

Hi
I recently wiped my hard drive (damn Windoze ) and now I want to start my filter/codec 'collection' anew, w/o all those evil codec packs. Nimo, K-lite, Ace Mega, and many others made my PC hell to play and convert video.
First, what individual codec/filters do u recommend, and which packs (as in something small, like the mkv playback pack)?? Also what is a good site for when Gspot tells me a specific codec i need? Do you guys recommend ffdshow instead of individual DivX or Xvid codecs? Also, howz OpenDivx?? I Don't want ad-supported DivX.

I have several mkv s with dual audio tracks. I want to extract one of the audio tracks and the video to an avi to be compressed to MPEG. I couldnt find any guides or much info on mkvs in general. Anyone know how i could do this?

But first, all the codec stuff.....

Thanx in advance to everyone who replies.. I really appreciate it.

[mujahid7ia]

These mkvs have 2 audio tracks, i used to be able to switch b/w them from the sys tray, but i dont remember what filter it was... i can only switch from within player...

Also, i want to burn these mkvs to a vcd with SUBTITLES... none of my players are showing them now....

plz help.

[mujahid7ia]

Is anyone here familiar with the .mkv container format?? If so, your help would be appreciated. I'm new to mkvs, and dont really know how to do stuff w/ them...

[Baldrick]

mkv is matroska. You can open mkv with virtualdubmod and extract the audio and the subtitles.

[mujahid7ia]

ok thanx ill try VDM

can ne1 help w/ codecs...?

[mujahid7ia]

ok in VirtualDubMod I was able to save the audio stream i wanted as a ogg file, i can convert that to mp2...

i was also able to save the subtitles as a .srt file
i was able to save the video data as an avi (w/o sound, subs)

now how can i make an video file file out the audio and vdieo, AND with the srt SUBTITLE FILE?

thanks

[AMD2400]

ok in VirtualDubMod I was able to save the audio stream i wanted as a ogg file, i can convert that to mp2...

i was also able to save the subtitles as a .srt file
i was able to save the video data as an avi (w/o sound, subs)

now how can i make an video file file out the audio and vdieo, AND with the srt SUBTITLE FILE?

thanks

You need to extract the sound as a .wav. To do this open up VirtualDubMod, load the video file, Streams, Stream List, select the audio stream and hit save .wav. Or you can use a program calle avi2vcd which includes a decompressor. http://home.cogeco.ca/~avi2vcd/

Open up the video using the decompress tool and save file.

Now back onto Virtual Dub Mod, Load this new file that decompress tool did, now you will have audio for your file.
Now to add subtitles, Videos tab, Filters, Add, Select Add, Then Load, Browse to where you save VobSub folder that contains TextSub.vdf file
http://nctuccca.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/Vendors/Softking/soft/en/v/VobSub_2.23.exe

Now back to the add filter option, scroll down and find the new subtitler, double click on it, and then browse to where your .srt file is saved to.
Now once you encode the video to .avi it will add subtitles back to the movie.

[mujahid7ia]

Thanks, AMD2400, but I figured this out a while ago.

This is an old thread, as you can see. Thanks a lot for attempting to help, though !!

[AMD2400]

Yeah I know it was an old thread, lol, I only found this thread because I was having problems with a .mkv file myself. Glad that you got it figured out

[mujahid7ia]

so are your mkv problems solved? I'm pretty experienced now with MKVs and OGMs!

[AMD2400]

Well I am trying to open up a movie in .mkv format through VirtualDubMod and it goes through the filter loading part and it comes up with this error warning: [S_TEXT/] is only sub available now and it won't let me load up my file into virtualdubmod . I am trying to get the subtitles from the mkv file because I already have extracted the audio and video using decompress that comes with avi2vcd program. Now all I need is the subtitles and I can make an .avi of the movie with the subtitles permantly on the video.

I might just look around for the srt or ssa file doing a google search.

Oh, I like working with ogg or ogm files much better than mkv's.

[ChristianHJW]

Oh, I like working with ogg or ogm files much better than mkv's.

... you obviously havent started using 'mkvextract' from mkvtoolnix yet ....

[AMD2400]

I also have mkvextract. I actually did what I wanted with the mkv file I mentioned up above. The file was not combined together properly and didn't have standard sub title format. I got the video and combined a subtitle from another source and it worked perfectly.

I like all the things that you can pack into .mkv video format.

[inferno6a]

sry for reviving this old thread but i have some problem with mkv file as well. i downloaded virtual dub mod and plan to extract and make an avi file with the audio and subtitle i want. but when i click open video option in virtualdubmod, i keep receiving a crash msg. the mkv file seem fine as i can open it with window mediap playr and some other players.

any solution or other program i can use with same function as virtualdubmod?

[inferno6a]

this is the crash details.

An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'ntdll'.

[AMD2400]

this is the crash details.

An out-of-bounds memory access (access violation) occurred in module 'ntdll'.

Sounds like might have a conflict of codecs. I really don't know because I have never gotten that error message.

[AMD2400]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=609

[inferno6a]

ty for the help .tried the program that u gave me the link, amd. can open the mkv file fine . was able to select audio stream and subtitle i want and remux the file as a new mkv file. however that does not solve my problem as i want to change it to a avi/vcd/svcd format with the correct subtitle and stream i want. if only virtualdubmod works.....sigh...

any other program with same "choose audio subtitle and convert to avi/mprg " function as virtualdubmod?

[ChristianHJW]

Inferno,

you have to understand that MKV was created to overcome most of the existing limitations that AVI has, so it can contain a lot of stuff that AVI cant. Therefore your undertaking is senseless, you will NEVER be able to create an AVI file with the same content as the MKV you have.

VirtualdubMod, for this very reason, was discontinued by the author of it, because it was basically some extention to the Virtualdub code, and Virtualdub is centered on M$ Video for Windows and AVI, so most modern MKV files could not be supported by it anymore.

MKV will be the replacement for AVI, also we have ported gstreamer to Windows now so that we can replace VfW also, the multimedia framework AVI is based on. Our solution will become the first truely open and x-platform multimedia framework/container solution ......... so you better leave your files as they are and help your friends understadning what they are, and how they can play them, instead of converting them to something they think they know already ....

ChristianHJW
matroska project admin
http://www.matroska.org
http://packs.matroska.org

[inferno6a]

k. but is there a direct method to convert mkv file to svcd/dvd with the audio and subtitle u want? i just dun like to watch anime on my pc. if there is no program that works like this yet nvm.

thanks for all the help.

[ChristianHJW]

If the MKV files play in Windows Mediaplayer, TMPEGencoder can also open them using its DirectShow source filter ... there should be a 'how to' here, use the search function of the forum ....

EDIT : I dont know why, but sometimes the subs dont show up for the MPEG encoding in TMPEGencoder until you set dvobsub to 'load always'. I guess somebody had to talk to the author of TMPEG, and convince him to implement the loading of a predefined DirectShow graph, or to make 'semi-automatic' graph rendering possible ....

[mujahid7ia]

If VirtualDubMod worked for you, then you can use a subtitle filter and frameserve the mkv and then convert w/ TMPGEnc... I don't know why VDM is giving you memory errors. Maybe you should test with memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com

[AMD2400]

If you try to use TMPGenc Plus to load the file, do this first. Go to Option, Environmental Setting, then VFAPI plug in tab. Righ click on DirectShow Multimedia File Reader and change the Priority until it goes to 2.