MKV to AVI or DVD conversion

[BTPH]

hey all,

i have about 13 .mkv files that id like to put on DVD, i have had trouble converting them, have actually read a number of guides on this site but they dont seem to be working. the mkvs have 2 audio streams and 1 subtitle track, id like to keep all these when i convert....

i have downloaded about a million different applications all claiming to work for this, i have gone as far as seperating the video, audio and subs into 4 seperate files, converting the soundless video file into dvd, throwing that in dvd lab, putting in the audio streams and subtitle file and authoring, this did not work authored fine but when i played it it wouldnt play any audio or subtitles, ive converted it with convertxtodvd but it has many audio errors during conversion, audio lags and it plays only one stream, subtitles wont work......

please if anyone could suggest something i would really appreciate it.

cheers,
ben

[BTPH]

made a small breakthrough with mediacoder just now, converted to avi perfectly, the file is the same quality, though audio quality is a bit off..... but it doesnt keep subtitles (which isnt a huge issue i can just rip them as i did before and put them together in convertx to dvd) apart from that my other problem is that it only converts the file with audio track 1, i need audio track 2, if it is impossible to keep both tracks using mediacoder i would like very much to just have track 2 (track 1 is japanese, 2 is english, since i can only say one sentance in japanes, the sentance being, excuse me can you speak english? i think it is futile for me to keep the japanese at the cost of loosing the english.......)

anyone know hwo to pick audio tracks in media coder? or set the audio quality?

[spanky123]

Have you tried demuxing the video/audio/subtitles with mkvextract (a gui for mkvtoolnix) ?

That should get all your audio and subtitles to seperate files pretty well

However, when I tried to demux the video, it gives me a raw .x264 file. I got nfi what to do with that
So, to encode the video to dvd, I just use avisynth with DirectShowSource() and feed that into CCE. That works well for me

[killerhex]

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