where did I go wrong? Mkv to Avi.

[zorbathegeek]

Hello, noob here.

Have downloaded a movie in .mkv format, 640 x 272, avc codec.

Converted it to .avi using Any Video Convertor for compatibility with a standalone divx player. Wasn't sure what frame size to use so chose 640 x 480 from the drop down menu. Sounded about right!

THe resulting file plays in a rather small box via VLC. I can't zoom it to full screen or anything. I assume if I burn it to disc it will come on like this on my TV too.

Any clue as to what size I should've converted it to? THere's a 480x272 option... and many others. I'm clueless.
Also, there's an srt subs file with the film, will it run okay with the converted file (I know I will need to check the filenames).

Any help much appreciated.

[Baldrick]

Convert it to 640x272. If you can't choose it switch to another converter like xmedia recode.

[zorbathegeek]

Just saw on the Any Video Converter menu that I can choose to use the original size, which in this case is 640x272
I will do that then Baldrick, thank you.

I'd thought that using ANY mkv frame size would make the file incompatible for normal TV viewing, probably because I had problems playing a large frame size mkv file on my PC once... is that something to do with sizes of 700+ or something like that?

Anyway I will convert to original size now, thanks again for confirming it will work out okay!