Open MKV file in x264

I have a movie (Dune) in hdtv in a MKV file, and i want to make a WMV-DH file with it.

I've used VirtuaDubMod but it makes a error with the subtitles

Code:

Only Handle [S_TEXT/] subs for the moment

, and dont open the file, can i disable the subs? i dont need them.

In MKVExtract it opens the file, recon the files (! Video, 1 Audio and 2 SUB) but when i extract the video no program can open it.

I've trien other programs but nothing, i can view the movie in my PC so i have the needed codecs, what can i use to make a WMV out of it?

If the video is x264, then it should be stored as native AVC. When you extract with mkvextract you will get a raw AVC stream, which can be handled by various apps/splitters/decoders. Much easier and simpler I would say to just convert the mkv to wmv if that is what you want though. No point, demuxing, converting to avi or any of that if what you want is wmv.

For WMV, I guess WME. Takes input via dshow, so if you can play the file, it should be able to convert it.

Originally Posted by celtic_druid

If the video is x264, then it should be stored as native AVC. When you extract with mkvextract you will get a raw AVC stream, which can be handled by various apps/splitters/decoders. Much easier and simpler I would say to just convert the mkv to wmv if that is what you want though. No point, demuxing, converting to avi or any of that if what you want is wmv.

For WMV, I guess WME. Takes input via dshow, so if you can play the file, it should be able to convert it.

It worked, opened the file, recongnized the Video and Audio, but after the convertion i geted a 6kb empty file... ....

No clues on this?

I am having the same problem. What I want to do is re-encode the 6 channel ACC file that's in the MKV media file to WAV so I can re-encode that to AC3.

I am getting the same error in virtuadubmod when I try to open the file. I have also tried other programs like BeLight and Xilisoft Mp3 to Wav converter and they both fail at taking the extracted ACC file (which i was able to extract from the MKV using mkvextract) and converting it. All i get is some small file that doesnt have any audio data in it.

Any help would be appriciated, thanks.

- Mark

UPDATE W/SOLUTION:

I got it finally!! Ok first you need to of course extract the ACC 6 channel audio and video you want or whatever away from the MKV so we just have avi for video and ACC file for audio.
I do this using MKVextractGUI.

Then, once we have that ACC audio file I used a program I got from rarewares site called audio2wav. The program wasn't written in English for the one i installed but its a very easy program dont even need to know the langugge you just load the ACC file into the input part (top part) and then click the bottom button and it asks you for output file name, then you make sure you check the "Opciones 5.1>2" thing for ACC and then click "Comenzar" which translates to Convert or something. It will make the WAV in the output file name you made, and voila! Also I liked this program ebcause i did not lose quality in the audio like i did with accdecdrop (also from the rarewares site) the accdecdrop worked but it was crap like 22 Khz lost half the quality. audio2wav kept it at 48 Khz which was sweet.

Anyway hope that helps ppl out!

- Mark

Ok, but then how can i convert the Video?

maybe try avisynth with directshowreader and then open it in wme, https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284288

and what do you use to decode the mkv container and h264 video? try the haali media splitter and ffdshow...

I would try to take the demuxed AVI file that was made (if i was using mkvextract gui) and convert it from wahtever video codec it's using to mpeg2 using tmpgenc plus 2.5

dafreak posted a great guide on converting ogm files to dvd which you could use that to figure out how to encode from your avi to whatever you want to encode to.

The link to that guide is here.
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=222005


Update: Sorry didn't notice you wanted to convert to wmv.. i'm not too sure if tmpg could do that or not, never tried it.

- Mark[/b]

Gyah, I just realized that the ACC 6 channel audio that MKVextract GUI made was in fact extracted as 22 Khz instead of 48 Khz.. I have to find a program that extracts it and keeps all of its original quality.

Nevermind.. just VLC player falsely reporting things.. it's same quality. But because 4 of the 6 AAC channels were empty I had to use goldwave to "normalize" the volume, worked very nicely.

The aac would be he-aac without a header reporting it as such some apps will miss the SBR part and report 22KHz.