H264 MKV files on VirtualDubMod

[raylgo]

How to I get files like these into avi?

I have tried AlltoAVI and MKV to AVI with Subtitles but the conversion is always out of sync with the audio using these two. I have another mkv file that is not H264 and not Variable frame rate. It is converted just fine on MKV to AVI with Subtitles.

It seems that the AlltoAVI has a problem with the file being h264 and MKV to AVI with SUbs has a problem with the Variable frame rate...

VirtualDubMod seemed like my best bet but it has a problem with the Variable Bit rate on the sound file... What else can I do?

[poisondeathray]

What format is the video & audio ? Use mediainfo if you don't know

Do you want to re-encode the video & audio, and put into avi container (.e.g xvid/mp3/avi) ?

You can try avidemux

[raylgo]

Video stream is AVC

Two Audio streams: Eng and Jap (both Vorbis)

and 1 text stream: ASS.

I want to keep the Japanese Audio and subtitles only. I'm not sure about the process (converting newb here) but I just want the end result to be an AVI file with a single audio (Japanese) and to keep the subtitles...

[poisondeathray]

Why do you want avi? It is just a container format. Do you want it for compatibility (e.g. device, hardware player?) If it is for a device, many of them have specific requirements (e.g. max resolution, encoding settings). If you re-encode you will lose quality

Do you want hardcoded subs (burned into the picture), or attached subs? If you hardcode you have to re-encode

[raylgo]

I'm converting it for compatibility. I'm bringing videos with me in my DS and it can only play dpg files. The converter I'm using can only make use of avi files so I have to turn the mkv files into avi before converting them into dpg. I don't know if there is a way to go from mkv to dpg... Quality loss isnt that big of a deal since its actually a step backwards (smaller screens where the final file will be played on) and the quality isnt that bad from my past conversions of mkv to avi to dpg. This is jsut the first time that I keep getting an out of sync audio...

And I prefer hard coding the subs since it would be one less headache as the avi file is converted to dpg. But the dpg converter can also encode subs...

I'm messing around with avidemux but I have no clear idea on what to do. Sound is still a bit off... And subs arent displaying.

[poisondeathray]

Is the sound off in the .mkv to begin with? What are your system specs? maybe it's too old?

Use mkvextractgui to extract the .ass subs only

Use mkvmergegui to make a "new" .mkv with only the video, and 1 wanted audio track checkmarked
(ie. uncheckmark unwanted streams)

In avidemux, open the "new" .mkv, video=>set to xvid, audio=>set to copy, format=>set to .avi. Under the video section, push filters, subtitles, and ASS/SSA to hardsub use the extracted sub, you can adjust the size etc... or bitrate of video, etc...Then press save with extension e.g. "myfile.avi" . You can preview. If you want to preview in the main window, you have to push the output preview or toggle side by side view. If your application doesn't accept vorbis, change audio=>mp3(lame) instead of copy

If your .mkv is vfr, or had audio sync issues to begin with , this won't work. You could try converting to cfr with avisynth, and frameserve (search and there are a dozen posts outining how to do this). The variable bitrate audio has nothing to do with sync issues, but variable FRAME rate video does.