Audio distorted when converting MKV to DVD

[t0nee1]

Try with XviD4PSP or MeGui.....
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic352374.html

http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/MeGUI_H.264_Conversion_Guide_page1.html

Have fun!....

[poisondeathray]

Thanks, t0nee1, I have just checked (on manual, up to now...) and my player should support MPEG4 on DVD-R media. Which software do you suggest for MKV->mp4 conversion?
I nearly got lost among all those names! (and I have already made up a pretty wide collection of software, and now I have to find some time to learn using it!)

MPEG-4 is not the same as .mp4

MPEG-4 can mean about 20 different things, including DivX, XviD, AAC etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg-4

.mp4 is a container format

I'm fairly confident that your standalone player is probably DivX compatible, NOT .mp4 compatible. Most standalone players use the same Sigma chip to decode and there are many limitations on what they accept/reject. If you do a search there was a post fairly recently on what specs are commonly compatible (Baldrick summarized it somewhere)

[Maikeru-sama]

I wonder if the OP could provide a link to the video. I would download it, run it through my process and write a guide for it.

[t0nee1]

Yes .mp4 is a container format....

poisondeathray wrote this,

"MPEG-4 is not the same as .mp4 "

Yeah ok,but what about this,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14
or this,
http://www.tech-faq.com/mp4.shtml

[poisondeathray]

Yes t0nee1, but they are not equivalent, you cannot use the terms interchangeably

The .mp4 container is a subset of the term MPEG-4. MPEG-4 encompasses many more things than just part 14. If you look at the link in the previous post, it should explain it better. When most standalone players say they "support MPEG-4", they usually mean DivX/XviD or part 2, not part 10 (like h.264), or any other part...

Cheers

[t0nee1]

Point taken!

[fabpozzi]

Panic! Now I am even more confused than before! So, mp4 is a sort of subset of MPEG4. My Panasonic player "officially" works with: DVD video, WMA files and:
"...play MPEG4 data [conforming to SD Video specifications (ASF standard)/MPEG4 (Simple Profile) video system and official DivX® Certified product. Plays all versions of DivX® video (including DivX®6) with standard playback of DivX® media files..." (copy&paste from tech specs). So, which kind of MPEG4 are they referring to? More, it seems that I can only use DivX and not Xvid coded files! Which converter should I use to have a MPEG4 ouput compliant with my player or to have a good "official" DivX?

[t0nee1]

Don't panic yet!..........
Extract mkv using MKVExtractGUI, then open .h264 file with this DGVACIndex to create a .dga file..Now open Notepad and create a text file like so,

LoadPlugin("C:\dgavcdec100a24\DGAVCDecode.dll")
AVCSource("C:\sample.dga")
Lanczos4Resize(720,480)

Save as sample.avs and close Notepad
make sure you point LoadPlugin to where you installed DGAVCDecde.dll and AVCSource to your source location...
convert ac3 audio to wav with Belight,
Now start VirtualDub and open the .avs file use the new wav as source audio and create a DivX/avi ...should work for you..
I know there's probably an easier way,however if it was me I'd get an Xbox or PS3 and enjoy higher quality mp4/h.264 video instead.
JMHO.....

[fabpozzi]

Ehm.. I got lost at the third line... I will study a bit more the matter.
Anyway, the DviX/avi supported by my damned player are the one with DVD video resolution (max 576 lines for PAL) and the MPEG4 files are those with .asf estension (with no explicit resolution limit). How can I obtain this kind of files and with which quality?
It's the last hope, otherwise it's perhaps simpler to try to burn a DVD video (maybe) or wait for Santa Claus and get a PS3 as a Xmas gift.