hey,
I have a movie in mp4 format. The contents are as follows, video- vbr- (bitrate 2500 to maximum bitrate 12.2 mbps) and variable frame rate 23.976 to 19.048 avc @ vbr and audio- aac @ vbr. I use TEncorder to change the file to mkv format, video- unchanged and audio- ac3 @ 384 cbr. When I use mediainfo, I get result as video details doesnot mention it as vbr but just 2500 and frame rate changed to constant frame rate @ 23.202. I have used setting not to alter video stream. Does change in container cause this?
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Try instead mkvtoolnix / mkvmergegui. In mkvmergegui (mmg) add your mp4 and then make a new mkv.
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I think I got the title wrong. I have mp4 and I want to make convert it to mkv. But it seems that vbr of files in mp4 gets altered anyway though I choose direct stream copy. I hate when it gets altered. I want to preserve that vbr frame rate and bit rate. Does your suggestion help to preserve video file?
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Yes. Mkvmergegui will preserve the video and audio. It will not reconvert but just change container. Try it!
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Nor interlace detection, which seems to be really challenging to find a reliable app.
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You can not do that with Handbrake. If you want to change container type from MKV to MP4 use MP4Box. If you want to change container type from MP4 to MKV use MKVMerge (MKVToolnix).
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If the conversion takes a very short time (say, a few seconds, or less than 1 minute for a ~2h movie), then no actual transcoding was involved. Maybe the information for the original video was wrong (especially regarding the "variable frame rate", doesn't seem standard, others may elaborate on that), or maybe MediaInfo doesn't correctly detect those parameters on the converted MKV.
You can verify the bitrate profile using Bitrate Viewer : if both videos have exactly the same profile (and exact same average bitrate -- BV's analysis being much more accurate than MediaInfo's), then the streams are identical as they should be.
You can also go full-on OCD (as I would do in such a case) : demux audio & video streams for both files, then check their checksums (CRC32 or MD5, many tools for that), or open them in an Hex editor, like WinHex, which has a "synchronize and compare" function (and can calculate MD5, and also can compare two files and log their differences in "Tools" > "File tools" > "Compare"). To demux the streams, MPlayer works fine (TSMuxer GUI often works with MP4 but not always, MKVExtract as the name implies only extracts streams from MKVs, MPlayer works with everything that can be played), with such a command line (I assumed you're working on a Windows system ; change the drive letters, paths and names according to your configuration ; you may already have an mplayer.exe file somewhere inside a video converter installation folder, if so there's no need to download another) :
Code:"X:\Path_to_MPlayer\mplayer.exe" "X:\Path_to_your_source_file\source_file.mp4" -dumpvideo -dumpfile "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\source_file-videodemux.264" "X:\Path_to_MPlayer\mplayer.exe" "X:\Path_to_your_source_file\source_file.mp4" -dumpaudio -dumpfile "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\source_file-audiodemux.aac" "X:\Path_to_MPlayer\mplayer.exe" "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\converted_file.mkv" -dumpvideo -dumpfile "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\converted_file-videodemux.264" "X:\Path_to_MPlayer\mplayer.exe" "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\converted_file.mkv" -dumpaudio -dumpfile "X:\Path_to_your_converted_file\converted_file-audiodemux.aac"
Last edited by abolibibelot; 10th Oct 2015 at 13:14.
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Thanks abolibibelot,
The suggestion looks very complicated atleast on paper. I shall try with the easy step, that is download the suggested bit rate viewer and try again.
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