MKV avi extraction issue.

[Jesta]

Im trying to turn this series into dvd's but i cant get it to convert. Ive tried both virtual dub mod, (which gives an error and wont open it.)
and MKVextractGUI, which extracts the audio and subtitles fine. but the avi part is a unreadable file. (in any program, my players and dvd burning/converting programs.)

misc info,
I have Combined community codec pack, (newest ver)
MKVextract was updated last night,
It plays fine in zoom player, and bsplayer. before exrtraction but not after.
I converted the audio to mp3 then to ac3 with no issues.
I tried tmpgenc 3.0 express to load the extracted avi and it gives the error: cant detect file type C:/shana.avi.

I can give a link to the source file, but it has been released on DVD so i think that falls under warez. Although the site that host's it honors all cease and desist requests from companies. (adv funimation etc are all not allowed.) so i donno if it breaks your rules or not, if not lemme know and ill post it.

[celtic_druid]

Audio to mp3 than AC3? That will only cause quality loss. Go straight to AC3 if that is what you want. Same goes for the video. Forget about avi if you want DVD video. You need MPEG-2.

Probably the mkv contains video that isn't avi compatible. Just naming the extracted video .avi won't make it an avi. For instance, native AVC streams get extracted as raw h.264 streams (*.264).

[Jesta]

how would i know what the extracted video file is supposed to be?

the reason i went to mp3 first is i use ffmpeggui and it only supports mp3 audio, not ogg.
If you know of a program that goes from ogg to ac3 that'd be a help aswell.

edit: heres what the extract looks like. The file comes out without a extension on it.

[celtic_druid]

ffmpeg supports ogg. Works fine with the GUI to, just have to do *.ogg/*.* to load.


mkvextractgui should have asked for a file extension. You can edit formts.txt though as that is where it stores such settings. Should be "(V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC) 264". As I said though, you get a raw h.264. Better just to convert the mkv to MPEG-2. You could remux the .264 to an mp4 with mp4box/yamb though or if you really, really, really, really wanted to; to avi using avc2avi.

[Jesta]

ok thanks i will give it another try.

Ill do a search on mkv straight to dvd guides.