MKV to DVD

[lordrothgar]

Even is the title says Mkv to DVD, this thread is mainly about subtitles problem.

I spent 4 hours looking for guides to help me out. Checked loads of posts here in videohelp but still, i havent found very little solution

Righ now most of the Anime are released in mkv format as every1 knows.

Sadly i need to convert them in a DvD format, but here we are. The subtittles (with amazing fonts and colors on PC) show pretty badly on my DVD player.

To be more specific.

I use ConvertxtoDVD3. The subtitles it recognize are shown all white, BIG, and go outside the screen.

So i tried extracting them from the mkv file with MKVextractGUI, and they are in ASS format. Ofc if i add them in that format they are all shown big, white etc. so i convert them in SRT (with VobSub or Subtitle Workshop), and then in SSA to be able to edit the fonts (you know you cant edit SRT subs but you CAN edit SSA)

I managed tohave them fit the screen, but, obviosly, they are white arial font, without any special effect

The effect i get on PC is: Subtitles of different colors, with edited font not preesent in the normal list, basically a rly cool view.

So, in the end. i have LOADS of anime in Mkv format, and trying to attack subtitles permanently (harcoding i think) takes 30 minutes each file with TMPGEnc , or Mkvmux. Since i have more than 100 files i cant use like 30 minutes transforming them in avi, reencodint, add the subs and so on.

I use ConvertXtoDVD3 cos with that, i manage to put 9 Anime Episodes in a single DVD, meaning i can have a 26 episodes serie inn only 3 DVD.

I tried using DVD Santa 4.0 BUT it gives me erorrs on video and audio format (unsupported)

I'll give the spec of the files i'm having problem with and....after this loooong post, to make it simple:

Is there any way to convert Mkv to DVD without having to reencode every single file AND mantaining the subtitles font/colors/effects?

The serie i'm burning right now has Mkv files with
Video format: MPEG4, h.264
Audio: ACC format
Subtitle: ASS format
(Gspot doesnt work on them so if u need mroe detailed info link a program that i cna use plz :P)

Thank in advance for your help guys, and sorry for creating a soooo long post.

[guns1inger]

Is there any way to convert Mkv to DVD without having to reencode every single file

No.

AND mantaining the subtitles font/colors/effects?

I don't know enough about subtitles to say this can't be done, however I do enough about them to say that you can only preserves the fonts/colours etc if you hard encode them into the video. To me this says you probably need to learn how to encode manually, frameserving from virtualdub or avisynth.

[lordrothgar]

Ya, i know how to encode them

the problem is that i cannot do it

why?


simply cos i have more than 100 anime eps i want to put on DVD and encoding each single episode means 30 minutes per 100.........too much time

if there isnt any way i convert them in srt and forget aobut all fonts/colors but

IF theres a way....here's the only place i can learn it

[guns1inger]

I do not know of any way to do it en masse. If your player can play Xvid encoded avi files then you might be able to use Xvid4psp to convert them to a suitable format, then burn as data with Imgburn.

If you must convert to DVD then you may have to convert to Xvid encoded avi first, then use ConvertXtoDVD to convert to DVD. You will also have to use ConvertXtoDVD to reduce the size of the image and add borders so that the subtitles fit inside the overscan of your TV.

Also, you haven't filled in your computer specs in your profile, so it is difficult to tell if you are getting good encoding speeds for your system, or not. Ultimately, the only way to dramatically improve your encoding speeds is to throw bigger hardware at the problem.

[lordrothgar]

Atlon xp dual core 2.6Mhz
4 GB DDR2 RAM
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GTS (or something like that, pretty big)
Motherboard Gigabyte 965P-DS3

[guns1inger]

gfx card plays no part. You would get the same encoding speed if you had a geforce 2 MX card in there.

[lordrothgar]

thank you Guns1inger

even i f it wasnt the help i was looking for....with XviD4PSP, only that, no other encoding programs, i was able toadd the subtitles extracted from the mkv to it. So now is hardsubbed (is this the right word?) with the subtitles with the right font/color.

I need like 17 minutes for each file but i'll find a way to do them anyway

[Maikeru-sama]

I do this all the time. 100 anime episodes is not all that uncommon for me.

Here is what you need to do:
1) Find out what type of subtitles the MKV files have, they may already be SRT. (Tools: Mplayer, MKVExtract)
2) Find out what your frame rates are. If they are standard MPEG-2 frame rates then you could use DVDFlick, FAVC or ConvertXToDVD without the need for frame serving.

You can find a decent guide on how to do batch MPEG-2 processing here.

[lordrothgar]

Thanks maikeru-sama

i'llt ry those too on my next Anime series. For now withXvid4psp i can hardsub the mkv files converting them in avi in only 8 minutes per file. After theya re hardsubbed with convertxtoDVD 3 i can even fix the Overscan problem what convertxtoDVD cause (even the 1 caused by my tv )

I'll try your progs on ym enxt anime series if i have problems anyway

thanks for your help