MKV HD to MP4 HD (PS3)

[m93]

I have a source MKV file. These are the specs (from MediaInfo):

General
Format                           : Matroska
File size                        : 2.92 GiB
Duration                         : 1h 20mn
Overall bit rate                 : 5 175 Kbps
Encoded date                     : UTC 2007-11-13 21:47:54
Writing application              : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library                  : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover                            : Yes / Yes / Yes

Video
ID                               : 1
Format                           : AVC
Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                   : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC           : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames        : 13 frames
Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                         : 1h 20mn
Bit rate                         : 3 562 Kbps
Nominal bit rate                 : 3 662 Kbps
Width                            : 1 216 pixels
Height                           : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 1.689
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Resolution                       : 24 bits
Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0
Scan type                        : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.170
Stream size                      : 2.01 GiB (69%)
Writing library                  : x264 core 56 svn-680
Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=10 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=9,9 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=10 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=3662 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.7:15.0
Language                         : English

Audio
ID                               : 2
Format                           : DTS
Format/Info                      : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID                         : A_DTS
Duration                         : 1h 20mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 6 channels
Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Surround: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Resolution                       : 16 bits
Stream size                      : 871 MiB (29%)
Language                         : French

Text #1
ID                               : 3
Format                           : ASS
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Language                         : English

Text #2
ID                               : 4
Format                           : ASS
Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info                    : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Language                         : Romanian

I would like to convert this file to MP4 playable on PS3 with either softsubs or hardsubs (English).

I have tried converting this with XviD4PSP and GOTSent but they do not support DTS Audio (I had already converted the subs to SRT format).

Next, I tried extracting the different streams with MKVextractGUI and converting the DTS audio to AAC with foobar2000. All of this worked. Then, I tried to mux the .h264 file, .mp4 (audio) file, and .srt file with YAMB but the conversion didn't yield an output file no matter how many times I tried.

Any suggestions?

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[Baldrick]

Did you try latest yamb beta also? And be sure that mp4box.exe in the yamb folder.

And try also mp4muxer.

[m93]

Actually, I would like to hardcode the subtitles in the video.
I have .ass subs with the font files and .srt subs.
Is there any way I could hardcode them into the source .h264 file?

[Baldrick]

Use xvid4psp. Set the audio to disabled if it can't convert the dts audio. And after mux the aac audio to the new mp4.

[m93]

How do I know that the subtitles will be hardcoded?

[Baldrick]

You load the srt, subtitles->Add.

[m93]

I have tried that at least 5 different times and the subtitles are never hardcoded in the output file

[Baldrick]

It works fine here.

But then move to another application, like avidemux (click on it for a subtitle guide).

[m93]

AviDemux crashes whenever I try to encode h264 video with it.

[Baldrick]

Yep, avidemux is buggy but don't give up. You have 1000 more free tools to try like AutoMKV, HDConvertToX, Format Factory, Super. Most are guis for ffmpeg or mencoder and should support subtitles.

Or make a custom avisynth script with a subtitle filter(but it's what xvid4psp does...)

(or well I would have give up a long time ago...)

[yanger]

this can be a issue with specialized ass files that have odd formatted text.. any alternative way besides converting ass to srt?