MKV to AVI, tried many ways, not working

[gorilla]

Hi!

I'm trying to convert my mkv file to avi in order to play it on my standalone player.
I've read many tutorials, but none of them worked for this file.
I installed matroska pack.
I tried demuxing the mkv with Virtualdubmod. I didnt work but no problem the tutorial said it may happen.
Then I tried mkvextract. But all I got was a 0 kB audio (ac3) file, and an empty chapters.txt.
Then I tried winavi, alltoavi, river past video cleaner and then super.
Winavi doesnt do anything, it stays on 0%.
Alltoavi cannot be used either...
River past creates a very small avi file that is of course not good.
Super stops with error, not really specifying what kind of error.

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

I show you what mediainfo says about the file:

General #0
Complete name        : I:\214.mkv
Format               : Matroska
File size            : 1.08 GiB
PlayTime             : 43mn 14s
Bit rate             : 3559 Kbps
Encoded date         : UTC 2007-01-23 05:04:34
Writing application  : mkvmerge v1.8.1 ('Little By Little') built on Nov 25 2006 16:14:30
Writing library      : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.0

Video #0
Codec                : MPEG-4 AVC
Codec/Info           : MPEG4 ISO advanced profile
PlayTime             : 43mn 12s
Width                : 1280 pixels
Height               : 720 pixels
Aspect ratio         : 16/9
Frame rate           : 23.976 fps
Language             : English

Audio #0
Codec                : AC3
Codec/Info           : Dolby AC3
Channel(s)           : 6 channels
Sampling rate        : 48 KHz

Please help!
Many thanks!

[celtic_druid]

If mkvextract can't extract, then I would say that there is something wrong with the file. Anything muxed via mkvmerge should be demuxable via mkvextract.

Check that you are using at least v1.8.1. Latest is I think v2.0.0.

[gorilla]

Damn, I cant believe it thanks...
I used the latest gui, had the latest mkvtoolnix but not in the same folder. Damn.
Now it works...
Thanks again

[gorilla]

Right I'm stuck again.
Now I have a .h264 file. I'd like to convert it to divx.
Virtualdub(mod) doesnt recognize this ext. Even if i open the file it says cannot detect file type.
Super cannot convert it... I tried MEncoder, ffmpeg with and without directshow... But it can play it! its only that it cant encode it.
Winavi doesnt recognize it either.
I'm starting to think what i want is impossible...

Pls help a bit more...

[Abond]

Avisynth or maybe avidemux2

[NormaJ]

This helped me:
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=281826&highlight=

Cheers

[celtic_druid]

mencoder and ffmpeg definatly both support raw H.264 streams. Then again they both also support mkv input. With mkv there are no issues with framerate detection either.