h264 file ?

[t_jay17]

I extracted an mkv that i was planning on making a dvd from and for the video file it was a .h264 file that no program can seem to handle. How can i turn this file into one that i can work with?

[Soopafresh]

Mux it to an MP4 using YAMB

http://yamb.unite-video.com/download.html

[t_jay17]

is this converting the file or is it putting it into another container like the mkv

[Soopafresh]

Temporarily putting it into another container... It makes it easier for more conventional apps to deal with the file type.

Your other option is to use DGavcIndex to create an index file for the h264 file which Avisynth can then read, much in the same way DGindex works for Mpeg files.

This version has worked the best for me, although it isn't the latest.

http://neuron2.net/dgavcdec/dgavcdec100a2.zip


* Sidenote: Hope your MKV wasn't containing variable frame rate video. It'll be a nightmare to sync the A/V.

[Baldrick]

Try convert the mkv directly with convertxtodvd. But give up if it's VFR(variable frame rate).

[Ai Haibara]

It may be possible to run it through avc2avi, but I've always had mixed luck with that (including with VFR video streams).

One other option that might work for you is to create an AviSynth script to frameserve the video into an editing program like VirtualDub, then save it to an AVI with the compression options you want. Just create an .avs script with the following, placing the filename of the MKV (you may or may not want to include the full path, if it's not in the directory in which you're working) between the quote marks:

DirectShowSource(" ")

...then load that .avs in VirtualDub/VDubMod/etc.