.mkv file? Help!

[hellfire45]

I am trying to burn this .mkv file to DVD.

I've been using the program VSOConvertXtoDVD, but it tells me that it cannot determine the length of the clip and so it cannot convert it.

What I really want is to get it into a format that I can burn it to DVD, or find a program that can just directly burn it to DVD without converting.

.mkv file....very puzzling.

Does anybody have a solution for me?

Thanks!

[redwudz]

If you don't want to convert it, you should be able to just burn it directly to DVD as a data file. But only a computer would be able to play it back.

We have some guides for MKV to DVD in our guide section. Just do a search in the 'Format Conversion' window for MKV to DVD. I suspect the problem with ConvertX is VBR audio and video. That causes a lot of programs to not be able to see the playing time of the file properly.

For myself, I would probably use a program like VirtualDub Mod and frameserve it to a MPEG-2 encoder like TMPGEnc to convert the file. Frameserving solves a lot of compatibility problems.

A better way would probably be to use AVISynth, but I'm not really very knowledgeable about that program.

[aedipuss]

check your version of convertx, the ones i've used lately -v2.0.xx.xx have an option when that problem pops up to convert it anyway. it goes into a frame by frame mode and take quite a bit longer than normal, but it has worked fine on the couple i've tried.